US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired

After dissolving several federal tech modernization units and shedding large numbers of technologists, the Trump administration has launched a new talent recruitment initiative, suggesting it still needs people to help drag the government's IT into the present.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Monday announced the establishment of the US Tech Force, an initiative it describes as a "cross-government program to recruit top technologists to modernize the federal government." 

If that sounds a lot like the US Digital Service, which before being transformed into the now-dissolved Department of Government Efficiency was designed to pair private sector tech skills with public-sector agencies to help modernize them, or the General Services Administration's 18F team, designed to help federal agencies modernize their tech stack before DOGE shut them down, you're not alone in thinking that, but the Trump administration swears this time it'll be different.

The Tech Force ...