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Where to find team USDR at the Code for America Summit


By Ginger Zielinskie (Center for Civic Futures & Yale SCALE Lab), Sarah Esty (Aspen Institute Financial Security Program), Eric Giannella (Georgetown University Better Government Lab), Anthony Lollo (Yale SCALE Lab), Maria Reyes-Gaskin (U.S. Digital Response)




As artificial intelligence continues to reshape labor markets faster than the systems meant to support workers can respond, USDR is proud to announce we're a recipient of GitLab Foundation's AI for Economic Opportunity Fund grant.


The trick is hiring people who understand how technology works.


How Arizona's Department of Economic Security (DES) partnered with USDR to develop human-led, AI-powered plain language translation tools that reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve access to services for SNAP-eligible English and Spanish-speaking residents


USDR has announced the recipients of its 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards, which honor state and local government modernization efforts. December 04, 2025 • News Staff


The Seed Award highlights NJDOL as a national leader for developing solutions that grew to help multiple jurisdictions and are easily replicated. NJDOL’s UI and TDI/FLI teams leveraged the NJ AI Assistant, developed by the New Jersey State Office of Innovation, to create plain language glossaries and AI prompts to better meet the needs of all New Jersey workers.


Steve Lund, technical product manager at USDR, shares how election offices are modernizing their back offices with Electionline


The 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards celebrate excellence in digital government modernization.


How AI-powered metadata generation will transform the City’s and public access to police oversight records.


The author of New Jersey's generative AI guide said she hopes it will help keep others from "trudging through mud in the same ways."