In his five years there, the government services modernization team grew to 180 people and is looking to scale again as he leaves.

The USDS has some team members embedded in the White House Coronavirus Task Force and is pitching in at the state and local levels, among other things.

The announcement includes a re-tooling of the leadership structure of the group — the director and deputy director roles will no longer be political.

Cutts talks about the White House's IT modernization report and more.

The freshly appointed seven-member board will be tasked with reviewing IT modernization projects that apply for funding from the central Technology Modernization Fund.

In an interview with FedScoop, the acting administrator talks recruitment and what makes a good "USDSer."

People don't trust their government. Is there a hack for that?

Van Dyck joined the White House in 2012 as a senior technology adviser, before going on to co-found USDS two years later.

Major milestones this year include the launch of code.mil, the Pentagon's foray into open source, the launch of login.gov and Hack the Air Force, an Air Force-specific…

Matt Cutts, now the director of engineering at the U.S. Digital Service, has resigned from Google to remain in government and is now poised to be the…