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This "national design studio" seems strikingly similar to 18F, which was cut by DOGE earlier this year. Was not aware of it until now. Apparently it was established in August by EO: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/impr...

Does anyone have a scoop on NDS? Is it composed of 18F staffers?

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I would be _very_ surprised if any 18Fers were a part of the "national design studio." It is, at the very least, Doge affiliated, and Doge is who killed 18F.

Came here to see if anyone had an answer to this too.

US Digital Service (USDS) was also "renamed" and turned into DOGE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service).

So on the surface it seems that we already had many of these types of orgs, but they killed them all and spun up their own renamed and rebadged versions.

That being said, this project does seem like a potential big win.

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