Dear DGS colleagues and friends:
It is with great sorrow that we share the news of the passing of Larry Brandt on Monday August 1, 2016.
Larry originally established the “Digital Government research program” within NSF while serving as a NSF program director, and he supported many digital government research projects. With his colleague and dear friend at NSF, Valerie Gregg, he was a staunch supporter of advancing the digitization of government agencies, and of improving government agencies through technology, pursuing these goals for more than a decade, starting in the early 2000s.

The following links show the coverage of Larry's Digital Government program:
- Making a Digital Government, 2002,http://articles.latimes.com/2002/may/20/business/fi-techqa20
- Basic versus Applied Reserach: A challenge for dg.o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLztx5VwIxc
- Melvyn Ciment, A personal history of the NSF digital government program, CACM Vol 46, No 1, Jan 2003.