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State program leaders, county administrators, and civic tech partners joined U.S. Digital Response for a webinar on an urgent challenge: how do states actually reduce SNAP payment error rates before the clock runs out?
Learn how government agencies can hire UX talent and build strong user-centered design practices. Explore practical strategies for growing UX capacity, improving workflows, and delivering better public services.
Election officials are heading into the 2026 cycle facing familiar pressures in new combinations: rapid legal and technological change, persistent distrust, workforce turnover, evolving security threats and a communications environment in which false claims and public confusion can spread faster than offices can respond.
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."
Your agency’s existing position descriptions are not going to work for supporting an Agile vendor team. You’re going to need to promote an existing employee to the position of product owner, and hire a senior software developer to review the vendor’s work. Here’s how much work that is, and how other agencies have hired for these positions. By Waldo Jaquith