Workday entered the federal market with its cloud-based finance, payroll, and other human capital services in 2021, and launched its government subsidiary<\/a> in July 2025. Just this fall, it added the Department of Energy<\/a> as a customer \u2014 the first cabinet-level agency to deploy its services. It\u2019s also working with agencies such as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the U.S. Space Force.<\/p>\n Rob Enslin, president and chief commercial officer for Workday, told FedScoop the two biggest growth areas for the company are international and federal.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI would say that probably the investment in Workday Gov is the largest investment Workday has had from an engineering point of view,\u201d Enslin said. \u201cSo it\u2019s key for us, actually globally, on government.\u201d<\/p>\n Roughly a year ago, the Office of Personnel Management awarded and abruptly canceled<\/a> a sole-source contract to Workday to facilitate the Trump administration\u2019s HR modernization efforts. OPM later launched open competition<\/a> for such a contract, but has yet to announce an awardee.\u00a0<\/p>\n Notably, a host of PAR processing tasks were among items in the agency\u2019s wish list for an eventual vendor.\u00a0<\/p>\n While the AI agent would be the first that Workday has brought to government, agentic uses are part of its broader strategy on the technology. AI agents are tools that carry out specific programmed tasks autonomously rather than merely the response generation typically seen in chatbots. They\u2019ve been particularly buzzy in the private sector in recent months.<\/p>\n Enslin said Workday\u2019s approach to the technology includes ensuring the company can connect agent-to-agent to work with others in the market, making acquisitions of agentic tools, and creating their own agentic offerings.\u00a0<\/p>\n When it comes to bringing its tools to the federal market, Martin said the company is partnering with government to identify the best use cases. That includes aligning them with applicable government policies, such as the Trump White House\u2019s AI framework.<\/p>\n \u201cThings like that framework are all in the concept of our PARs agent to comply with how the government\u2019s thinking about rolling out responsible AI,\u201d Martin said.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s learning from its existing federal customers, too. The company\u2019s work at DOE served as the basis for its estimates about the PAR agent\u2019s potential time savings, per a release about the forthcoming product.\u00a0<\/p>\n When it comes to turning on new tools for government customers, Martin said the company is taking an approach that aims to address the parity between the latest commercial services and what federal agencies can actually get their hands on.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnything we\u2019ve built for federal are now in the code that all customers get,\u201d Martin said. And because all customers run on that code, they\u2019re \u201cgetting upgrades regularly and moving with the latest innovation,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n As a result of everyone running on the same code, the platform is also designed to be \u201cbuilt for configuration management, not customization,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re not customizing that base code,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can configure it, you can use connectors, you can do all kinds of things with it, but your long [operations and maintenance] tail that exists today in all the legacy environments are minimal.\u201d<\/p>\n Ultimately, Workday\u2019s approach appears to fit neatly into what at least one Trump administration leader said they want from industry.<\/p>\n During a panel discussion with Enslin, Barbaccia described the administration\u2019s approach to technology as looking for services that are fungible across the federal government \u2014 such as AI, cyber, and workforce management \u2014 and envisioning solutions that can be applied widely.<\/p>\n In terms of what the government wants from the private sector, Barbaccia said the government needs \u201cpartners who understand the mission.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n That means partners who understand the outcomes the government is trying to achieve as well as the landscape for repairs and compliance, he said, and not vendors \u201cselling a statistical basis software to fit a very narrow scope of problems that one agency may or may not have.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\tWritten by Madison Alder![\"Madison](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777562892_781_alder-headshot.jpg\")
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\n\t\t\tMadison Alder is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C., covering government technology. Her reporting has included tracking government uses of artificial intelligence and monitoring changes in federal contracting. She\u2019s broadly interested in issues involving health, law, and data. Before joining FedScoop, Madison was a reporter at Bloomberg Law where she covered several beats, including the federal judiciary, health policy, and employee benefits. A west-coaster at heart, Madison is originally from Seattle and is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workday\u2019s public-sector arm is set to launch its latest federal government offering next year in the form of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[405,7537,15944,15945,15183,15946,15947,15948,2770,2280],"class_list":{"0":"post-23176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agentic-ai","8":"tag-ai-agents","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence-agents","10":"tag-federal-hr-2-0","11":"tag-greg-barbaccia","12":"tag-human-capital-management","13":"tag-lynn-martin","14":"tag-office-of-personnel-management-opm","15":"tag-rob-enslin","16":"tag-trump-administration","17":"tag-workday"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23176","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=23176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}