Robin Carnahan said the new policy will push her agency to protect government data and use it responsibly within AI tools, encourage experimentation of the technology —…

The group will support 13 federal agencies and joins the first round of fellows, which was announced last year.

Ann Lewis joins TTS from a private sector C-suite role and was previously a technology policy adviser at SBA.

TTS Director Dave Zvenyach hopes for 100% retention, as the Corps prepares for a second cohort using early lessons learned from the first.

An initial crop of more than 40 early-career technologists will start work on projects across 13 agencies.

Less than a quarter of technologists working in federal government are women.

The fellowship is designed to place early-career software engineers, data scientists and other technologists at federal agencies.