These former government tech leaders are prepping day-one plans for a future administration

A group of technologists, practitioners and public servants with extensive government experience is prepping day-one plans for the next administration meant to push the government into a new age instead of returning to a pre-Trump status quo. 

The effort, called the Tech Viaduct, is in part a reaction to Trump’s controversial, government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency, which helped the administration push out civil servants, cut spending and tap into new sources of government data, sparking lawsuits in the process. 

Watching how much the team was able to get done quickly was “astonishing,” said Mikey Dickerson, a senior advisor for the Tech Viaduct.

Dickerson was the first administrator of the U.S. Digital Service, a tech team established by former President Barack Obama in the aftermath of the failed Healthcare.gov launch. Trump transformed USDS into a unit to house DOGE on the first day of his administration and placed ...