The $1B Federal Talent Challenge: Aligning Hiring with Agency Priorities
It All Started With One RFP, and a Warning.. In January 2025, Sophia Blake, Capture Manager at Federal Partners, was preparing a multi-million-dollar bid for a Department of Justice (DoJ) cybersecurity modernization project. The scope? Deploy AI-enabled threat detection across three agencies. Migrate legacy systems to secure cloud infrastructure. Staff…







