For the U.S. Tech Force

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Learn the federal space and build your network, with the rest of Tech Force, career feds and industry.

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The first months

A new agency, a new city and two years to make it count.

A new agency

You're placed at an agency you may not know yet, with its own systems, acronyms and priorities, and a lot of technology arriving at once.

A new city

Most roles are in the DC area, five days in the office. Outside your own team, the rest of the cohort is spread across other agencies and hard to find.

Two years

Projects can start and end within months, and people move between them. The people you meet and what you learn early shape what you can get done in two years.

What GovGuild gives you

Learn the technology, and know who's in the room.

GovGuild lists the frontier technology sessions in DC and online, from agencies, associations and industry, and shows what each one costs a fed. The Tech Force badge adds your cohort on top.

Find your cohort

See who else is in Tech Force, with their role and agency. Filter by agency to find the people placed where you are.

See who's going

Every event shows how many of your cohort are going. Tap it to see the ones who share their plans.

Learn what your agency is adopting

Pick tracks for the work you do, from agentic AI to zero trust. News comes with a plain summary of what each memo or directive means.

Keep a record of your term

Everything you attended, by track and fiscal year, with your notes. Useful at review time and for whatever comes after the two years.

Example. Names show only for members who share them with the cohort.

Your first 90 days

A simple plan for the start of your term.

WEEK 1

Set up

  • Verify with your .gov address and claim your guild number
  • Add the Tech Force badge and your cohort year
  • Pick tracks for the work your agency gave you
FIRST MONTH

Show up

  • Go to one session in person where others from the cohort are going
  • Connect with the people you meet by scanning codes
  • Save the agency memos that touch your work
BY DAY 90

Build your federal network

  • You know feds across agencies working on the same problems, in your cohort and well beyond it
  • You've met the industry teams behind the technology your agency is adopting
  • You're up to speed on that technology, and your record shows what you've learned
The Tech Force badge

Your cohort sees you. Everyone else sees a number.

  • Only verified government members can add it. Your .gov address is used to send a code and is never stored.
  • Your cohort sees your name, role and agency. Everyone else only sees counts, like "4 Tech Force going."
  • You can hide yourself from the cohort list or remove the badge at any time.
  • The badge is self-declared. If something looks wrong, report it and we'll look into it.
  • Free for government, always.
Why we built this
GovGuild started as a way for feds to keep up with frontier technology and the people putting it to work. Tech Force is the clearest case for it: a cohort of new technologists spread across agencies who should know each other. This page is our way of saying welcome.

The GovGuild team

Join

Come learn, and meet the people doing the work.

Sign up with your .gov, add your Tech Force badge and pick your tracks. Then see what's on this week, and who from your cohort is going.

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