Our mission
- Unite industry and federal innovators to improve government for all Americans — today and tomorrow. + Embed industry’s top technologists and innovators within federal agencies to improve the way our government builds, designs, and delivers services.
Who we are
What we do
-Hand-in-hand with federal agency leaders, we identify innovation opportunities of critical agency and/or national priority. As we do so, our team recruits outstanding private-sector technologists. And then, we unite. PIF embeds the nation's top engineers, designers, and strategists within agencies as yearlong entrepreneurs in residence. With our agency partners, our fellows advise, prototype, and scale solutions using industry best practices across data science, design, engineering, product, and systems thinking.
+Hand-in-hand with federal agency leaders, we identify innovation opportunities of critical agency and/or national priority. As we do so, our team recruits outstanding private-sector technologists. And then, we unite. PIF embeds the nation's top engineers, designers, and strategists within agencies as yearlong senior advisors. With our agency partners, our fellows advise, prototype, and scale solutions using industry best practices across data science, design, engineering, product, and systems thinking.
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- Design with the public
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- We create products and services with people, not for them.
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- Stay curious
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- We are lifelong learners who bring empathy and humility to complex challenges.
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- Focus on service
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- We don’t build tech for tech’s sake. We co-create solutions to enrich the skills, jobs, and lives of everyone in our country.
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- Be courageous
+ Servant Leadership
- We do what is right for the people even, and especially, when it is hard.
+ Selfless service of partners and the public to achieve equitable outcomes, while bringing others along the journey with integrity, empathy, and humility.
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- Create inclusion
+ User-Centered Innovation
- We recognize and celebrate what makes each of us uniquely brilliant. We foster a culture of belonging where everyone can do their best work.
+ Create an environment that prioritizes the user’s needs to iterate toward new solutions; create government products and processes that are intuitive, streamlined, and effective.
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- Grow together
+ Collaborative Community
- We make our agency partners, alumni, and collaborators successful. We center community in all we do.
+ Nothing happens in government alone; as individuals, we often own specific outcomes, but we have shared ownership of our mission. Cultivate empathy; invest in each other; facilitate serendipity.
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- - Design with the public -
-We create products and services with people, not for them.
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- - Stay curious -
-We are lifelong learners who bring empathy and humility to complex challenges.
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- - Focus on service -
-We don’t build tech for tech’s sake. We co-create solutions to enrich the skills, jobs, and lives of everyone in our country.
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- Be courageous + Servant Leadership
We do what is right for the people even, and especially, when it is hard.
+Selfless service of partners and the public to achieve equitable outcomes, while bringing others along the journey with integrity, empathy, and humility.
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- Create inclusion
+ User-Centered Innovation
We recognize and celebrate what makes each of us uniquely brilliant. We foster a culture of belonging where everyone can do their best work.
+Create an environment that prioritizes the user’s needs to iterate toward new solutions; create government products and processes that are intuitive, streamlined, and effective.
+ - Grow together + Collaborative Community
We make our agency partners, alumni, and collaborators successful. We center community in all we do.
+Nothing happens in government alone; as individuals, we often own specific outcomes, but we have shared ownership of our mission. Cultivate empathy; invest in each other; facilitate serendipity.