Charles Worthington

Federal Leadership

Charles Worthington is the dual-hatted Chief Technology Officer and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs and has been with the agency since 2017. In his current position, he works to improve veterans’ digital experience while also helping the VA’s IT office adopt modern DevSecOps practices. Worthington is credited with guiding the VA’s transformation strategy, which includes the adoption of commercial cloud infrastructure and enhancing digital services. Before his tenure at the VA, Worthington spent time in both the public and private sectors as a Presidential Innovation Fellow and a senior advisor in the Office of Science and Technology Policy where played a role in standing up the U.S. Digital Service.