18F is a technology and design consultancy for the U.S. Government, inside the government.

18F partners with agencies to improve the user experience of government services by helping them build and buy technology.

“We engaged with 18F, and it was a game-changer for us. They came in and helped the IT team and business owners get involved in the agile development process. It changed our whole methodology.”

— Alec Palmer
FEC’s Chief Information Officer

We support your mission

As an office within the General Services Administration, we know how to work with government. Federal, state, and local governments can partner with 18F to deliver projects that fulfill their mission, stay within budget, and use leading technology practices.

What 18F can do

Modernize software development processes while introducing good agile and human-centered design practices to your agency

Improve public-facing services like websites or applications

Digitize and streamline internal systems to save time and increase accuracy

Featured projects

Federal Election Commission

Easy-to-use campaign data

Rethinking how the Federal Election Commission provides data, instructions, and legal resources to the public.

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Department of the Treasury

Implementing a government-wide law

Implementing the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act with one of the largest government-wide agile projects ever undertaken.

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General Services Administration

Better tools for better research

An efficient way for contracting officers to search past government contracts for fair hourly rates.

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Some agencies we’ve worked with

- Health and Human Services
- U.S. Air Force
- Department of Justice
- Department of the Interior
- State of Wisconsin
- Office of Management and Budget

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Recent blog posts

We asked our coworkers: Why did you join 18F?

We asked our team: “why did you join 18F?” and got all kinds of inspiring answers.

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Building product management capacity in government part 3: A day in the life of a new product owner

This is part four in a series of posts about building product management capacity in government agencies. For this post, we chatted with Bill Laughman from DOJ’s Civil Rights Division about his experience as a product owner on Civil Rights reporting portal.

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Why simplicity? Choosing a web architecture

If you have ever led or managed a web project, you know that coordinating a team of software engineers is hard work! We hope this blog post can help you understand the concepts behind choosing a web application architecture, so that you can steer your software towards simplicity — even if you don’t have direct software engineering experience.

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