A new phase of President Donald Trump’s Artificial Intelligence Action Plan (AIAP) will recruit top Silicon Valley and other information technology stars to join Tech Force, a cross-agency initiative to tackle the federal government’s toughest digital challenges, U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor said Monday.

“This is a clarion call,” Kupor said in a statement. “If you want to help your country lead in the age of AI, we need you. The US Tech Force offers the chance to build and lead projects of national importance, while creating powerful career opportunities in both public service and the private sector. I am grateful to President Trump for prioritizing America’s leadership in AI and empowering a cross-government effort to close our nation’s AI talent gaps.”

The statement described the new initiative as “a critical aspect of this directive — a government-wide effort to surge teams of top engineers, data scientists, and technology leaders to tackle the government’s most complex and large-scale challenges and deliver on the president’s vision. In collaboration with leading technology companies, participants will receive world-class technical training and work closely with senior managers sourced directly from industry.”

Tech Force is a joint initiative centered in OPM — the federal government’s central civil service human relations agency — and collaborating with departments of State, Treasury, War, Interior, Agriculture, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation and Energy.

In addition, initial agency collaborators will include the IRS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and the General Services Administration (GSA), which is the office supply and house-keeping operation for the Washington bureaucracy. Also involved in Tech Force will be the Chief AI Officer for the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, the Special Adviser to the President for AI and Crypto, the White House Office of Public Liaison and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

From the private sector, participants in the opening stages of Tech Force activity will include Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Anduril, Box, Dell Technologies, Docusign, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle, Palantir, Robinhood, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Synopsys, Workday, and xAI.

“In addition, Tech Force is partnering with NobleReach Foundation — a nonpartisan talent platform that brings together America’s best and brightest across industry, academia, and government, via initiatives such as its NobleReach Scholars Program — to recruit technologists and support the program,” the OPM statement said.

During a Monday call-in news conference with reporters, Kupor cited three examples of the kinds of problems Tech Force participants will be engaging in throughout the federal establishment.

“At the Department of War, they have a bunch of stuff around drones and hypersonic weapons, things of that sort where they need development work. At the Department of Energy, they are developing a big integrated platform to connect all the world’s best supercomputers and AI systems, so the applications there would be either scientific domains, quantum mechanics, and so forth. At the IRS, there is a big platform buildout, there’s the new Trump Account, the new savings tool that’s been rolled out,” Kupor explained.

The initial phase of Tech Force, Kupor explained on the call, will seek to recruit 1,000 top technologists, then have departments and agencies compete for the available candidates for particular problems. The OPM chief estimated that the top slice of the 1,000 — approximately 130 persons — will be at the General Schedule (GS) 13 or 14 grade levels, which are paid $195,000 annually.

The program’s planners hope to attract both young individuals who plan on making careers in government and others who expect to work for the government for a defined period of two or so years, then return to the private sector. The OPM will function as the “centralized recruiting center,” Kupor said. He also expects the Tech Force initiative on AI to prompt similar efforts to recruit private sector talent to address other problem sectors in the federal administrative state.

“GSA is proud to partner with OPM and the Trump Administration to answer the president’s call to fast-track AI adoption across the federal government,” Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum said in the statement. “The U.S. Tech Force will be a true force multiplier, creating a pathway to bring in top private-sector talent to help drive a new era of American AI leadership inside the federal government and deliver for the American taxpayers.” The FAS is part of GSA and is the chief supply service for the daily operations of federal departments and agencies.

“The US Tech Force is America’s elite corps for the AI revolution, mobilizing the nation’s best minds to lead on digital frontlines, defend our global edge and secure our future in technological leadership,” U.S. Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Gregory Barbaccia added in the statement. “It is a call to service for our nation’s best technologists to join a mission-critical corps that will ensure our competitiveness, modernize our government infrastructure and lead the world in innovation from education to medicine.”

The Federal CIO is an interagency coordinating forum for department and agency CIOs “for improving agency practices related to the design, acquisition, development, modernization, use, sharing, and performance of Federal information resources.”