I'm not against it, but my worry is that the US government will use this "attracting of top tech talent" to help with government services as a "backdoor" (pun intended) to recruiting some of them into the NSA later on, especially now that they seem to have a problem with recruiting hackers post-Snowden revelations.

First they get them to "feel patriotic about helping the government" and then getting them to spy on everyone seems like just another next step.

Hopefully, though, it will work the other way around and this top tech talent will manage to convince the old people in the government to do less of that.