From our first partnership with the United States Department of Health and Human Services building Healthcare.gov to long-standing collaborations with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services to emerging work with other agencies, our work at the U.S. Digital Service is dependent on hard-working…

Every one of us has the right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, eat safe, nourishing food, and live free from the threat of climate disasters wrecking our neighborhoods and livelihoods. But right now, many families and communities across the United States have to endure pollution in their air…

From its inception in 2014, women have been integral in the foundation and continued success of the U.S. Digital Service. This International Women’s Day (March 8, 2022), we reached out to some of the women-identified people who have brought their talents, skills, and extensive expertise to the organization over the…

In this series, you’ll hear stories from USDSers and learn why they decided to join, why they stay, and how their work is making an impact for all Americans. — Martha Wilkes (she/her), Designer & Accessibility Strategist, USDS at Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Chief Technology Officer. Previously at a statistical software company. From Chapel Hill, NC. What inspired you to join USDS?

By Misu Tasnim, Director, Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services After three years with the U.S. Digital Service — many of which I spent heading our team of technologists at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — I swiped my White House badge for…

With all the talk about the lack of Black workers in tech and lonely Black leaders in corporate America, it’s a bonafide wonder that nearly half of the leaders at the U.S. Digital Service — we call them Community of Practice Directors — are Black. Within a nine-person leadership team…

Veterans now have on-the-go access to their benefits and healthcare, thanks to an authenticated mobile app launched by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S Digital Service. Delivery of this product is one of the commitments of the Department in Executive Order 14058, Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service…

Kelvin Luu (he/him), Engineer @ USDS HQ. Previously at CreativEngine, Coding Dojo. From Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA. What inspired you to join USDS? From early childhood, my father would often tell me how important it is to “leave the world not worse than, not the same as, but better than you found it.” Throughout…

Hello! I’m Elizabeth Schweinsberg, an Engineer with the United States Digital Service (USDS). We help U.S. federal agencies modernize their digital services, like the Veterans Affairs website, Healthcare.gov, and Login.gov. I started at the USDS a year ago, in August 2020, after 15 years in digital forensics and incident response…