Every modernization project is an opportunity to find allies, DDS officials say

Fedscoop: There are two kinds of people in the government, according to Hunter Price, the Air Force Digital Service’s lead at Defense Digital Service: those who are resistant to change, and those who are ready for it.

Part of his job, he said Tuesday morning at the AWS Private Sector Summit, is to find kindred spirits outside of DDS — an agency arm of the U.S. Digital Service described as a “SWAT team” for bringing private sector tech savvy into the Pentagon. He was joined on the panel by DDS Director Chris Lynch, digital service lead Chris McKeever and acting USDS Administrator Matthew Cutts to discuss what modernizing the government really means.

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