The Trump administration has launched a new government-wide programme, the “United States Tech Force,” designed to recruit top technologists and train an elite cohort of government coders to modernise federal systems.

The initiative is being led by the US Office of Personnel Management, working in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget, the General Services Administration, the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy, and agency leaders across the administration.

The programme is structured as a surge effort, assembling teams of engineers, data scientists, and technology leaders for work on large-scale federal challenges.

Participants are set to receive technical training alongside senior managers brought in directly from industry, with the administration presenting the approach as a pathway to accelerate modernisation across multiple departments.

Tech Force deployments are being framed as mission-critical assignments across a wide range of agencies, including the Departments of State, Treasury, War, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security.

The list also includes organisations such as the Small Business Association, the Internal Revenue Service, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, the Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration, and additional agencies.

The administration has positioned the programme within a broader technology agenda that emphasises national leadership in artificial intelligence and federal capability to implement digital reform.

Officials have described the initiative as a government-wide response to talent gaps, pairing public-service placements with training that is explicitly designed to be comparable to private-sector standards.

Confirmed vs unclear: What is confirmed is that the Office of Personnel Management has formally established the United States Tech Force as a cross-government recruiting and training programme with private-sector partners and specified participating agencies / What’s still unclear is the exact size of the first cohort and how quickly agencies will operationalise placements and project assignments under the new structure.

Tech Force governance is being described as cross-cutting, with leadership participation from OPM, OMB, GSA, and OSTP, alongside roles tied to the federal Chief AI Officer and other White House functions.

The structure also lists participation from the US DOGE Service, the National Science Foundation, and White House offices involved in domestic policy and public liaison.

The administration has named an initial slate of private-sector partners spanning cloud, semiconductors, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, and consumer platforms.

The list includes Adobe, Amazon Web Services, AMD, Anduril, Apple, Box, C3.ai, Coinbase, Databricks, Dell Technologies, Docusign, Google Public Sector, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Palantir, Robinhood, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Snowflake, Synopsys, Uber, Workday, xAI, and Zoom, with officials signalling the roster may expand.

The programme is also working with the NobleReach Foundation, which is being described as a nonpartisan talent platform linking industry, academia, and government.

The administration has presented the partnership as a recruitment and programme-support channel for bringing technologists into federal service.

The public-facing Tech Force platform presents the initiative as “building technology for the American people” and directs candidates to apply through a dedicated site.

The site credits its design and engineering to a “National Design Studio” based in Washington, aligning the recruiting push with a broader White House effort to improve federal digital delivery and user experience across government services.