# Notify.gov

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{{short description|Digital service provided by the United States Government}}{{Infobox website
| name = Notify.gov
| logo = Notify-logo.svg
| logo_alt = Logo for notify.gov showing a blue colored bell with a notification icon (red filled in circle)
| founded = 2023
| dissolved = June 9, 2015
| area_served = U.S. government and customers
| owner = [General Services Administration](/source/General_Services_Administration) (GSA){{Break}}[Technology Transformation Services](/source/Technology_Transformation_Services) (TTS)
| services = Text messaging service
| website = {{URL|https://beta.notify.gov}}
| commercial = No
}}

'''Notify.gov''' was a text messaging service for government agencies in the [United States](/source/United_States) to communicate with customers. Notify.gov was part of the [Technology Transformation Services](/source/Technology_Transformation_Services) portfolio within the [General Services Administration](/source/General_Services_Administration).

It is no longer in service as of June 9, 2025.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Notify.gov |url=https://beta.notify.gov/ |website=Notify.gov |access-date=21 July 2025}}</ref>
==Overview==

The purpose of Notify.gov was to keep people "in the loop" on the status of their government applications via [text message](/source/text_message)s. As a centralized government notification service, Notify.gov was intended to relieve users from "creating yet another separate account to get to some vendor-specific system."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heckman |first=Jory |date=2023-10-03 |title=GSA considers text messages as new frontier for better customer experience |url=https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2023/10/gsa-considers-text-messages-as-new-frontier-for-better-customer-experience/ |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=federalnewsnetwork.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

Notify.gov was the initial pilot of the Public Benefits Studio, a team created to support the Biden Administration's Customer Experience Executive Order.<ref>{{cite web |title=Collaborate with the TTS Public Benefits Studio |url=https://digital.gov/2023/02/07/collaborate-with-the-tts-public-benefits-studio/ |website=Digital.gov |access-date=13 March 2025 |date=7 February 2023}}</ref> The Notify.gov pilot was launched in 2023 with four state and local government agency partners, focused on the experience of "having a child and early childhood."<ref>{{cite web |title=GSA launches pilot partnerships to help people get benefits through text messaging |url=https://www.gsa.gov/blog/2023/12/14/gsa-launches-pilot-partnerships-to-help-people-get-benefits-through-text-messaging |website=GSA blog |date=14 December 2023}}</ref> It was built upon the [GOV.UK](/source/Gov.uk) Notify program and VANotify by the [United States Department of Veterans Affairs](/source/United_States_Department_of_Veterans_Affairs).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nihill |first=Caroline |date=2023-12-15 |title=State, local agencies team with GSA for text alert service |url=https://statescoop.com/gsa-state-local-government-text-messages/ |access-date=2025-03-13 |website=StateScoop |language=en-US}}</ref> As of 2025, the beta product was available for all federal agencies as well as US state, local, territorial, and tribal governments.<ref>{{Cite web | title=Notify.gov |url=https://beta.notify.gov/ |website=Notify.gov |access-date=13 March 2025}}</ref>

In 2025, a GSA engineer resigned after being asked to provide access to Notify.gov's data to the new Technology Transformation Services director, [Thomas Shedd](/source/Thomas_Shedd). The requested data includes personally identifiable information for members of the public.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Alms |first1=Natalie |title=Longtime GSA employee quits rather than give Musk ally access to Notify.gov |url=https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/02/longtime-gsa-employee-quits-rather-give-musk-ally-access-notifygov/403085/ |website=NextGov |access-date=13 March 2025 |date=18 February 2025}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://beta.notify.gov/}}
* [https://github.com/GSA/notifications-api GitHub repository]

Category:General Services Administration
Category:E-government in the United States
Category:Government Digital Service
Category:Government services web portals in the United States

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