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August 30, 2017

What makes a great vendor team for acquisition product development?

By Laura Gerhardt

From our experience with the Agile Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA), we’ve found that in order to build effective cross-functional teams and successful IT projects, we need alignment on several principles

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August 22, 2017

Government launches login.gov to simplify access to public services

By Joel Minton , Tom Mills

Today, the U.S. Digital Service and 18F are excited to announce the launch of login.gov, a single sign-on solution for government websites that will enable citizens to access public services across agencies with the same username and password.

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June 22, 2017

Why discovery research matters for modular procurement

By Colin MacArthur , Rebecca Refoy-Sidibe , Aaron Burk

The Technology Transformation Service (TTS) has been working with the Forest Service since August 2016 on what will eventually be an agency-wide system to process permit applications. TTS is primarily helping the Forest Service hire private vendors for this work, rather than building it ourselves, and one way we’re improving that process is through “discovery research.”

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June 6, 2017

Fractal and Federalist join the U.S. Web Design Standards

By Shawn Allen

We've added two powerful, new tools to the U.S. Web Design Standards development workflow. Fractal is a development, testing, and documentation tool, and Federalist is an 18F hosting platform that makes it easy to generate previews and simplify our process.

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June 1, 2017

Federalist is out of beta and open for business

By Will Slack , Jonathan Hooper

If you're a program manager or a federal web developer you've probably been given a seemingly simple task: Create a basic website as part of a new initiative at your agency. The hardest part is often not crafting the content or designing the prototype, but getting the security and privacy compliance in order to launch and maintain the actual website’s compliance status. For that work, you might have to hire a contractor or put extra strain on your agency's web team. It shouldn't be that way.

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