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Agencies and Projects

USDC Fellows work at agencies across the government on projects that make a difference for the American public.

Agencies We've Partnered With

ACF CDC Census CFBP CISA CMS DHS DOC EEOC DTIC EOP EPA FEMA GSA HHS HRSA IRS NIH NIST OPM State USDA USGS VA

If you are a federal employee interested in learning about how to participate in future cohorts of the U.S. Digital Corps, please reach out to us at usdc-partnerships@gsa.gov.

  • Cybersecurity
Evaluating Emerging Technologies and Global Cyber Posture at the Department of State

Embedding cybersecurity expertise and best practices to ensure that U.S. diplomats can conduct official business securely and effectively at U.S. Missions around the world.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity
  • Immigration
Leveraging data to support the emergency release of 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners

Using a human-centered, empathy-based approach as part of an emergency interagency task force welcoming and supporting 222 political prisoners arriving in the United States.

Skill Set:

Data science, Product management
  • Equity
  • Health
  • Public experience
Piloting a Peer Navigator Service to Improve Access to Public Benefits

Implementing human-centered design to improve access to public benefits for expecting parents in support of the "Having a child and early childhood" cross-agency life experience project at the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Skill Set:

Design, Product management
  • Health
Enhancing health equity by bringing the experiences of people with Long COVID to the forefront of defining solutions

Harnessing the power of data, innovation, and human-centered design to improve the health and well-being of all Americans at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Skill Set:

Design
  • Public experience
Improving the delivery of multilingual voting information with a content management system

Supporting the General Services Administration's Vote.gov program in expanding voting access in underserved communities.

Skill Set:

Software engineering
  • Capacity building
  • Cybersecurity
Developing a Security Data Lake at CMS

Supporting the Office of Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in empowering CMS users and teams to use core security products and services to achieve their missions more securely.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity
  • Capacity building
  • Health
Designing a how-to guide for improving access to behavioral health care and support through FindSupport.gov

Supporting the Digital Service at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in understanding how people move around the U.S. health insurance system and taking action to support the most vulnerable Americans.

Skill Set:

Design, Product management
  • Immigration
Improving post-release care to migrant children and sponsors

Helping the Office of Refugee Resettlement at the Administration of Children and Families ensure that the thousands of unaccompanied children that enter HHS care each month are safe, thriving, and swiftly united with a sponsor through technology delivery and design.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity, Design, Product management
  • Health
  • Public experience
Using data science and artificial intelligence to support Veterans' healthcare

Improve Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospital operations, efficiency, clinical flow, quality & safety, patient care, health outcomes, and Veterans' experiences using data science and artificial intelligence at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Skill Set:

Data science
  • Health
  • Public experience
Using data, design, and technology to better serve Veterans in a digital age

Creating a better customer experience for Veterans and their families to receive the benefits they've earned in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of the Chief Technology Officer.

Skill Set:

Design, Product management
  • Equity
  • Public experience
Using data to ensure equity across USDA programs

Promoting program equity at the U.S. Department of Agriculture by improving analysis of demographic variation in USDA program participation—looking at those eligible, applying, and participating; assisting in the deployment and maturity of data science and data analytics projects and tools across USDA.

Skill Set:

Data science
  • Immigration
Scaling the capacity of the U.S. refugee and asylum programs through technology and design

Working on the main technology system at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that supports the United States' Refugee and Asylum programs to ensure it scales for unprecedented goals in resettling refugees while also ensuring that those seeking Asylum protection receive just and efficient decisions.

Skill Set:

Design, Software engineering
  • Capacity building
  • Public experience
Allowing Census Bureau data users to more easily access and use agency data

Enabling data users to easily access the Census data they need so they can spend less time searching for data and more time using it through best practices in product management and design.

Skill Set:

Design, Product management
  • Capacity building
Leveraging data for diplomacy at the State Department

Using data and technology in innovative ways to implement the State Department’s Enterprise Data Strategy (EDS) and data-informed diplomacy. The EDS helps to advance America’s foreign policy priorities, solve the Department's management challenges, and protect its people, facilities, and information.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity, Data science, Product management
  • Capacity building
  • Open science
Supporting equity in White House policymaking and implementation

Assisting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's Office of the Chief Technology Officer in increasing equity in and access to government services by applying statistical and analytics methods and tools to automate data processes and inform policy and policy processes.

Skill Set:

Data science
  • Capacity building
Supporting data-informed investments in strengthening and diversifying the federal workforce

Leveraging data on the largest workforce in the country at the Office of Personnel Management to increase the federal government’s capacity to recruit, retain, and empower the people delivering its complex mission.

Skill Set:

Data science, Product management
  • Cybersecurity
  • Health
  • Open science
Openly and securely sharing biomedical research data to spur innovative and reponsible research

Helping the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development securely and broadly share biomedical research data to support innovative and responsible research to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity
  • Cybersecurity
  • Health
  • Open science
Enabling biomedical discovery and data-powered health through open science

Supporting central platforms for biomedical discovery and data-powered health at the National Library of Medicine by integrating streams of complex and interconnected research outputs that can be readily translated into scientific insights, clinical care, public health practices, and personal wellness.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity, Product management
  • Equity
  • Health
  • Public experience
Preventing infant mortaility and eliminating disparities in perinatal outcomes

Supporting the "Having a child and early childhood" cross-agency life experience project at the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Skill Set:

Design, Product management
  • Equity
  • Health
  • Public experience
Improving healthcare access and outcomes for low-income and uninsured Americans

Enabling data-driven decision making to improve efficiency, impact, and oversight of healthcare provided to people who are low-income, uninsured, or face other obstacles to obtaining care in the Bureau of Primary Health Care at the Health Resources and Services Administration

Skill Set:

Data science, Product management
  • Health
Tackling health equity, integrated care, and digital service delivery with data

Supporting the Office of the Chief Data Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services in using data science & analytics best practices to address complex issues.

Skill Set:

Data science, Software engineering
  • Public experience
Helping Americans facing financial shocks access key benefits

Helping the State Benefits Accelerator at the Administration for Children and Families make it easier for millions of people to apply for benefits like healthcare, cash assistance, food assistance, utility assistance, and child care subsidies.

Skill Set:

Design, Product management
  • Public experience
Simplifying access to life-saving benefits and services on USAGov

Making government services easier to find on USAGov and USAGov en español at the General Services Administration.

Skill Set:

Data science, Software engineering
  • Cybersecurity
Enhancing and maturing risk management for Login.gov

Helping secure the General Services Administration's Login.gov from cybersecurity threats.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity
  • Public experience
Enabling excellent, data-driven customer experiences at GSA

Supporting the General Services Administration's Office of Customer Experience in collecting, managing, and analyzing customer sentiment data so GSA has the customer insights it needs for fully-realized mission delivery.

Skill Set:

Data science
  • Public experience
Crowdsourcing ideas and iteratively building and validating good-for-government solutions

Supporting ideas from federal employees about how technology can improve customer experience as part of the General Services Administration's 10x program.

Skill Set:

Design, Software engineering
  • Cybersecurity
Improving cybersecurity planning and program implementation at the EPA

Supporting cybersecurity planning and implementation at the Environmental Protection Agency, including implementation of zero trust architecture.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity
  • Open science
Improving access to DoD science and technology data and research

Improving access to the Department of Defense's science and technology data and analytics at the Defense Technical Information Center to rapidly, accurately, and reliably deliver the knowledge needed to create technology developments that will protect and enhance U.S. competitive advantage.

Skill Set:

Data science, Software engineering
  • Capacity building
Providing research and data to address economic inequality across different regions and geographies

Equipping public and private sector decision-makers with research and data tools to address entrenched and growing geographic inequality and better meet the economic needs of those they serve as part of the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs (OUSEA)’s Regional Economic Research Initiative.

Skill Set:

Data science
  • Capacity building
  • Health
Improving access and usability of key healthcare data products

Working to develop data products to ensure beneficiaries and other stakeholders can make informed decisions at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Office of Enterprise Data & Analytics.

Skill Set:

Data science, Product management, Software engineering
  • Capacity building
  • Health
Contributing to the Open Source Program at CMS

Strengthening the infrastructure that provides healthcare to over 180 million Americans by contributing to the Open Source Program at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Skill Set:

Data science, Software engineering
  • Capacity building
  • Cybersecurity
Supporting government cybersecurity best practices with technical assistance and capacity building

Supporting government entities with technical expertise and assistance in implementing the President’s cybersecurity executive order, the DOTGOV Act, and related guidance memos at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity, Design, Software engineering
  • Cybersecurity
Securing cloud business applications for government use

Working at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to add capabilities to secure agencies’ cloud business application environments and protect federal information that is created, accessed, shared and stored in those environments through consistent, effective, modern, and manageable security configurations.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity, Software engineering
  • Capacity building
  • Cybersecurity
Ensuring cybersecurity services for government agencies are intuitive and effective

Supporting the Cybersecurity Services Center of Excellence at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by guiding the design, development, delivery, and performance of cybersecurity services to CISA's customers, including the federal civilian executive branch (FCEB); state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT); and critical infrastructure entities, while also prioritizing delivery of non-scalable services to customers with the greatest need and national risk.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity, Design
  • Cybersecurity
Developing key cybersecurity assessments for government agencies

Assisting in the development of vulnerability, risk, and resilience assessments and supporting government entities with technical expertise and assistance in implementing the President’s cybersecurity executive order and related guidance memos at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity
  • Cybersecurity
Contributing to the digital transformation of CISA's cybersecurity operations

Helping the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency better defend the U.S. government, critical infrastructure, elections, and the American people.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity, Design
  • Cybersecurity
Building a .gov domain registrar for official websites

Building a registrar at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to make it easier for governments to request an official .gov domain, manage their DNS, and obtain relevant information to improve the security and privacy of their online services.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity
  • Equity
Improving design practices at CFPB

Working at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in utilizing data, technology, and design to safeguard everyday financial stability and build a more inclusive economy.

Skill Set:

Data science, Design
  • Capacity building
  • Health
Using data to better respond to disease outbreaks

Utilizing data, modeling, and analytics to respond to outbreaks in real-time to drive effective decision-making at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.

Skill Set:

Data science, Product management, Software engineering
  • Capacity building
  • Health
Building technical capacity for molecular epidemiology

Working at the Centers for Diesase Control and Prevention at the Office of Advanced Molecular Detection to support innovation and technical capacity in pathogen genomics, molecular epidemiology, and bioinformatics to reduce the impact of outbreaks, support the design and evaluation of intervention programs, and enable efficient use of public health resources.

Skill Set:

Cybersecurity, Product management, Software engineering
  • Capacity building
  • Equity
Using NLP to improve programs for low-income children and families

Working within the Administration for Children and Families' Division of Data and Improvement to improve programs that serve millions of vulnerable and low-income children and families by using natural language processing and rigorous qualitative data analysis to answer critical policy and operational questions.

Skill Set:

Data science
  • Equity
Improving data systems to support Head Start and early childhood education

Working within the Office of Head Start at the Administration for Children and Families to optimize support of vulnerable children and families in success for school and life by helping OHS improve data systems through the involvement of data analysis and strategy efforts.

Skill Set:

Data science
  • Capacity building
  • Equity
Combating human trafficking and supporting anti-trafficking grant recipients

Increasing access to benefits and the Administration for Children and Families’ capacity to serve individuals who have experienced human trafficking by improving the reporting experience for anti-trafficking grant recipients, reducing barriers to services, informing more resilient National Human Trafficking Hotline operations, and disrupting the scalability of human trafficking schemes.

Skill Set:

Product management

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