Delivery is the strategy.

Built in the spirit of America's top tech startups, 18F is a team of top-notch designers, developers, and product specialists inside the General Services Administration, headquartered at 18 and F streets in Washington, D.C. 18F is a civic consultancy for the government, inside the government, enabling agencies to rapidly deploy tools and services that are easy to operate, cost efficient, and reusable.

We are transforming government from the inside out, creating cultural change by working with teams inside agencies who want to create great services for the public.

Delivery

Delivery is at the heart of what we do. Our team of designers and developers work to transform government services by building world-class software products and raising standards of software development throughout the government. Learn more about our products by visiting our dashboard and you can find more information about our standards and capabilities through our guides.

Learn more about what we're building and how we're doing it.

Consulting

Our consulting team works alongside other federal agencies as partners. We’re here to roll up our sleeves right alongside you and solve the biggest challenges facing your agency. From developing agile acquisition strategies to evaluating opportunities to improving your digital initiatives, our team sets you up for success.

Learn more about the ways we can help you at 18F Consulting.

Join Us

We’re looking for candidates passionate about our mission, with top-notch software development, design, content, and operations skills to match. We’re based in D.C, but our team is distributed all over the country.

Learn more about joining our team.

How we get high availability with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails

Posted on 08 April 2016.

by Peter Karman

Tagged / best practices / information management /

If you’re already using Ruby on Rails and Elasticsearch, check out our replacement Rake tasks for the Elasticsearch Rails gem.

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Making more consistent decisions with design principles: A new 18F guide

Posted on 08 April 2016.

by Elizabeth Goodman and Brad Nunnally

Tagged / design / guides / how we work /

Design principles are concise, specific guidelines for generating and then evaluating ideas and artifacts. We had trouble finding detailed instructions for making and using design principles online. So we decided to write our own.

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Take our code: 35 reusable projects from 18F

Posted on 06 April 2016.

by Britta Gustafson

Tagged / tools you can use / open source /

We encourage you to adapt 18F open source projects for your work and personal purposes, whether you’re a fellow federal employee or outside government. We’ve put together a list of some 18F repositories that might be especially useful to you.

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