GSA Advances Tech Talent Strategy with New Presidential Innovation Fellows Class

Cohort joins growing federal technology workforce delivering on impactful priority projects

WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the launch of the 2026 class of Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF). The new PIF class showcases GSA's focus on hiring top technology talent to deliver on key Administration and priority projects.

"We are driving President Trump's mandate to deliver the most skilled technology workforce in the history of the U.S. government," said GSA Administrator Edward C. Forst. "To achieve high-impact work that advances Administration priorities, we are embedding strong technical leaders who can perform with discipline and speed, filling critical skills gaps across our partner agencies and preparing them to meet the demands of the future."

The new cohort includes 17 technology experts from top tech companies, startups, and organizations around the country. They will begin a yearlong tour of duty in civil service, embedded at ten federal agencies:

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
• Department of Energy
• Department of State
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• Executive Office of the President
• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• U.S. Coast Guard

The PIF program embeds technology leaders across federal agencies to tackle the nation's most pressing innovation challenges. Using industry best practices, fellows advise, prototype, and scale solutions to significantly improve public services, such as:

• Developing AI-powered tools to accelerate the permitting of new infrastructure projects.
• Improving the nation's cyber defense through the implementation of the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act.
• Establishing an AI-ready Department of Veterans Affairs workforce and executing concrete AI and automation initiatives that improve veteran care delivery.

"This class of PIFs represents the highest standard of technical talent in the federal government," said Acting Director of Technology Transformation Services Greg Barbaccia. "Their advanced expertise will advise our partner agencies on how they can best scale, secure, and transform the technologies that power our government."

GSA is bringing in skilled technologists to support mission needs across the government. In addition to the new PIF cohort, GSA has recently hired top technology talent to drive impact across GSA priority programs, including Login.gov, TTS Engineering and USAi. The PIF program represents one of several pathways GSA is using to build federal technology capacity, alongside direct hiring authorities and other specialized recruitment programs.

PIF, part of Technology Transformation Services, has been housed within GSA since 2013. For more information about the program, the new fellows, and future opportunities, visit the Presidential Innovation Fellows website.

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