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What makes a great vendor team for acquisition product development?

By Laura Gerhardt
August 30, 2017 agile bpa acquisition services procurement lessons learned

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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Government launches login.gov to simplify access to public services

By Joel Minton , Tom Mills
August 22, 2017 login.gov identity security platforms u.s. digital service product launch

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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Why discovery research matters for modular procurement

By Colin MacArthur , Rebecca Refoy-Sidibe , Aaron Burk
June 22, 2017 forest service agile bpa acquisition services procurement

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

By Shawn Allen
June 6, 2017 web design system open source federalist

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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Federalist is out of beta and open for business

By Will Slack , Jonathan Hooper
June 1, 2017 federalist tools you can use jekyll

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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