If the early list of advisers is any indication, the administration of President-elect Joe Biden will be heavily influenced by technology experts who spent time in government as part of an Obama-era program that remained through the Trump administration: the U.S. Digital Service.
The Biden/Harris administration is moving ahead with transition plans, including releasing a list of agency review teams that will land at specific departments and programs to assess the current state and needs of each.
The review teams are packed full of prominent names who have spent time working on federal policies and programs, many while working at federal agencies. There are also a ton of people who worked on important technology issues outside or adjacent to the government.
For the purposes of this list, we kept it to former government employees who worked on tech issues.
The highest ranking former fed with a technology-focus is Aneesh Chopra, who served as the first U.S. chief technology officer, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. Chopra, currently the president of health care analytics company CareJourney, is serving on the U.S. Postal Service review team.
The Biden/Harris agency review teams include a group focused solely on the U.S. Digital Service, an outfit created when Biden was vice president.This is the first time an agency review team has been specifically created for USDS, a transition spokesperson confirmed to Nextgov.
USDS originated in 2014 after the Healthcare.gov website crashed soon after going live. The service was designed to bring private sector technology experience to D.C. for short-term stints to work on really hard problems at agencies across the government.
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