Feds come hunting tech talent in Silicon Valley


  • TECH
  • Monday, 11 Jun 2018

Matt Cutts, U.S. Digital Service acting administrator, left, exchanges cards with Ted Han from Oakland and Veda Cook from Berkeley, right, at the Code For America Summit at the Oakland Marriott Convention Center in Oakland, Calif., on May 31, 2018. Cutts is in THE Silicon Valley/Bay Area to recruit tech workers to come work with him in Washington, D.C. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

Matt Cutts has taken on a tough task: luring highly skilled tech workers from their mecca in Silicon Valley to the political battleground of Washington, D.C. 

The former Google engineer heads the US Digital Service, a federal agency that grew out of the disastrous roll-out of Obamacare's Healthcare.gov website and is now charged with developing technology to improve federal government services and operations. 

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