DOE tapped Workday Government for the HR modernization initiative. The talent and human capital management platform went live about six months ago. Since then, the Energy Department has garnered 14,000 unique visitors across its custom dashboards and 5,000 unique instances of workers pulling personnel reports, according to Walsh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had some challenges, of course, with change management and getting people used to working and doing things in a different platform than what they\u2019ve been used to,\u201d Walsh said. \u201cIt\u2019s only going to get better, it\u2019s only going to get more efficient and we\u2019re only going to see steady increases.\u201d<\/p>\n
The HR modernization comes amid broader efforts to centralize federal agencies\u2019 talent platforms. The White House and Office of Personnel Management announced its Federal HR 2.0 project<\/a> in December, laying out a two-year transition plan for agencies to move to a single core HCM platform<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAgencies are expected to pause their own Core HCM procurement, development, and related modernization projects,\u201d OPM said in a memo to agency heads. The federal HR unit outlined exceptions for critical or time-sensitive needs to modernize.\u00a0<\/p>\n OPM had previously awarded WorkDay a sole-source contract for HR services in 2025, though it was canceled<\/a> roughly a week later. While it is still unclear why the contract was canceled, reports suggest<\/a> Workday is one of the remaining vendors in the race for the contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n The stakes are high to make this ambitious project successful, as a core HCM system houses all employee information<\/a> \u2014 from salary and benefits information to performance and training data. Currently, there are around 120 of these systems<\/a> deployed across agencies, many of which are costly, feature lackluster data capabilities and are closed systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n DOE\u2019s legacy HR system fell into that category.\u00a0<\/p>\n One of the driving forces behind DOE\u2019s modernization project was that the legacy talent system was not connected to any of the agency\u2019s other systems, which meant it couldn\u2019t access core personnel data, according to Todd Brinson, deputy CIO of enterprise operations and shared services at the DOE. Costs to maintain legacy systems were also steep.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s safe to stay on legacy, except for when it\u2019s not,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n Throughout the project, there was a focus on data quality and hygiene, according to Brinson.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou really have to understand what your data is doing,\u201d he said. \u201cYou absolutely have to get it right.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\tWritten by Lindsey Wilkinson![\"Lindsey](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777409108_726_IMG_5250-e1764867083701.jpg\")
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\n\t\t\tLindsey Wilkinson is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C., covering government IT with a focus on DHS, DOT, DOE and several other agencies. Before joining Scoop News Group, Lindsey closely covered the rise of generative AI in enterprises, exploring the evolution of AI governance and risk mitigation efforts. She has had bylines at CIO Dive, Homeland Security Today, The Crimson White and Alice magazine.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Energy is working to bring more AI into its talent management strategy, per two officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,2108,14469,2280],"class_list":{"0":"post-20622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-department-of-energy-doe","12":"tag-human-resource-management","13":"tag-workday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}