In a letter to congressional leadership, a group of senators requested funding and waivers on barriers preventing collaboration between levels of government.

The director of talent for the United States Digital Service says the federal IT workforce has built up a lot of momentum around digital transformation.

Some members of the U.S. Digital Service have a bold hypothesis about government work: By using modern collaboration tools — applications like Slack, Skype, HipChat, Google Suite and others — overworked federal employees could free themselves up from hours of basic-but-cumbersome tasks every day to focus more on the mission-oriented services the nation depends on. USDS