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Executive Order 13111

Using Technology To Improve Training Opportunities for Federal Government Employees

This executive order establishes a presidential task force and advisory committee to promote technology-based training for federal employees. It directs agencies to designate representatives, develop training technology standards, create online training databases, and explore individual training accounts for workers.

Federal Register Open PDF 64 FR 2793

Impact dates

  1. Advisory Committee terminates unless extended by President

  2. Task Force develop and recommend policy on technology training to President

  3. Federal Individual Training Account options and recommendations due

  4. Agency heads designate senior Task Force representatives

Key directives

  • Establish President's Task Force on Federal Training Technology with specified agency heads
  • Agency heads designate senior representatives within 30 days
  • Task Force develop policy recommendations within 18 months
  • Task Force report Federal Individual Training Account options within 6 months
  • Develop training software standards consistent with voluntary industry consensus-based commercial standards
  • Each Executive department designate at least one technology-based training demonstration subject area
  • Department of Labor establish specialized Federal training database within ALX framework
  • Department of Labor establish training technology website and staffed help desk
  • Department of Defense lead Federal participation in consensus standards development
  • OPM publish recommended training software standards
  • Establish Advisory Committee on Expanding Training Opportunities with maximum 20 outside members
  • Advisory Committee terminate after 2 years unless extended by President

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Task Force establishment with designated agency heads
  • OPM named Chair, Labor representative named Vice Chair

Near term (90d)

  • Agency heads must designate senior Task Force representatives within 30 days
  • Federal Individual Training Account options due within 6 months

Long term

  • Task Force policy recommendations due within 18 months
  • Advisory Committee terminates after 2 years unless extended
  • Ongoing standards development and implementation of technology-based training systems

Risks & tensions

  • Multiple provisions are qualified by 'to the extent permitted by law' and 'subject to availability of appropriations', creating implementation uncertainty
  • Task Force membership is large and diffuse (20+ agencies/councils), potentially complicating coordination
  • Standards development depends on voluntary industry consensus, which may slow adoption
  • Federal Individual Training Accounts require using existing agency training funds, creating zero-sum tensions
  • Advisory Committee's 2-year sunset may limit sustained external expert input
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