The 2.2 Million People Who Run The Government.

The federal civilian workforce is the largest enterprise in the country, and it is run on a personnel system designed for the 1949 economy. The proposals here cover the federal workforce specifically — replacing the obsolete General Schedule with a compensation framework that can compete for technical talent, modernizing hiring and onboarding so positions don’t sit vacant for a year, transferring institutional knowledge before a retirement wave that will hollow out entire agencies, and answering the strategic question of how a 2.2-million-person enterprise manages performance, location, succession, and the security clearance backlog that has become its single biggest hiring bottleneck.