“Mina Hsiang will lead the U.S. Digital Service, the Office of Management and Budget told Axios Thursday, as the Biden administration beefs up its cadre of technological special forces tasked with solving problems across the federal government.
Why it matters: Washington is preparing to spend trillions in infrastructure money allocated by the president’s top-priority legislation, and building and tuning the digital systems for those programs will demand know-how.
Driving the news: Hsiang will be the first woman and first Asian-American to be the administrator of USDS, which was launched in 2014 in the aftermath of the troubled rollout of the HealthCare.gov website.
- Hsiang is a USDS veteran from the Obama administration and worked on the HealthCare.gov rescue team.
- More recently, she helped the Biden administration with the launch of the Vaccines.gov website to help Americans find COVID-19 vaccines.
- She will fill the vacancy left by the April departure of Matt Cutts, the Google veteran who led the service from 2017…” Read the full article here.
Source: Exclusive: New boss for government’s tech “SWAT team” – By Margaret Harding McGill, September 2, 2021. AXIOS.
