HackerOne met with Katie Savage, Deputy Chief Digital & Artificial Intelligence Officer at DDS, and Melissa Vice, Director, DoD VDP at DC3 from the organizing teams of Hack U.S. to discuss the impact of the challenge, why they consider hackers a must-have for an effective defense-in-depth strategy, and how the findings from Hack U.S. will help secure public-facing U.S. government information systems long-term.