A little - The requirements for federal government were put out a long time ago (some scientific role job descriptions date from the 80's). This prevented a lo

A little - The requirements for federal government were put out a long time ago (some scientific role job descriptions date from the 80's). This prevented a lot of new grads who had degrees in fields that didn't exist in the 20th century to get denied or delayed as someone hired to be a sysadmin, or cyber analysis didn't have the correct number of math courses. Basically only a CS degree counted. Don't know about state/local governments, but the ones I have heard about were all over the place: some just copied the federal rules, some just hired whoever they could find. I would guess the beltway bandits will eventually change their requirements to match the federal gov't. They are already a little more lax in some areas (like the number of math courses). They really just want to say "our people meet your qualifications".