[3][4][5][6] Its mission was to "deliver better government services to the American people through technology and design".

[7] President Donald Trump issued an executive order on January 20, 2025, renaming and reorganizing the United States Digital Service, and reusing the USDS acronym, as the United States DOGE Service.

The HealthCare.gov technology crisis in 2013[10][11] accelerated the idea and served as one of the United States Digital Service's first project.

[3][4][5][6] In 2022, the federal government spent $100 billion on information technology, but the cloud computing systems have only garnered about $12 billion as much of the expenditure is dedicated to maintaining legacy systems which lack the efficiency, capability and security of newer architectures.

[13] The first head of the USDS was Mikey Dickerson, a former Google engineer who had previously been involved in the 2013–14 rescue of the HealthCare.gov website.