Most of the feds will be begging the contractors who do the work for them to hire them. But the dirty little secret is that the contractors don’t like or respect their federal overlords. They see them as a bunch of lazy, overpaid, and and unskilled paper pushers and would never hire them to do any real work.
“unskilled paper pushers and would never hire them to do any real work.”
I’m a mechanical engineer, working on another of many startups. It’s HARD work, with no guarantee of success or a payday. Even the high skilled techies at the EPA have no usable skills in such an environment.