I am really not clear on the structure of the "US Digital Service."
The phrase "US Digital Service" makes it sound like a "reified" civil service organization in its own right. There is a USDS Headquarters, which seems to support this notion.
In the copy[1], however, it says that the bulk of the work is done by "agency teams" which, if I'm understanding right, kind of "embed" with their assigned gov't agency. The copy also says they're recruiting founding members for new agency teams. The phrase "founding members" makes it sound, almost, like the teams are independent operations but knowing the federal gov't as I do, that can't possibly be right.
Does anyone here have any light they can cast on whether the USDS is an agency unto itself? If not, what cabinet secretary does it fall under? I have a ton of questions about how this works.
edit: My biggest fear with the USDS is that it can be smothered in the cradle by the next administration. There simply doesn't seem to be enough employees to make dissolving it -- or, maybe more likely, starving it to death budget-wise -- a big deal.
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser...
The phrase "US Digital Service" makes it sound like a "reified" civil service organization in its own right. There is a USDS Headquarters, which seems to support this notion.
In the copy[1], however, it says that the bulk of the work is done by "agency teams" which, if I'm understanding right, kind of "embed" with their assigned gov't agency. The copy also says they're recruiting founding members for new agency teams. The phrase "founding members" makes it sound, almost, like the teams are independent operations but knowing the federal gov't as I do, that can't possibly be right.
Does anyone here have any light they can cast on whether the USDS is an agency unto itself? If not, what cabinet secretary does it fall under? I have a ton of questions about how this works.
edit: My biggest fear with the USDS is that it can be smothered in the cradle by the next administration. There simply doesn't seem to be enough employees to make dissolving it -- or, maybe more likely, starving it to death budget-wise -- a big deal.
[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-ser...