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December 12, 2016

Connecting culture change at 18F and PBS

By Greg Boone

Designing the workplace is one of many services offered by GSA's Public Buildings Service. In Lakewood, Colorado, the team approaches the task as consultants working with agencies to change their space and the culture to go with it.

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December 2, 2016

Presidential Innovation Fellows now accepting applications for Spring 2017

By Andre Francisco

If you’re looking for a way to have an impact on the digital services the government provides to the public, now’s your opportunity. The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is currently accepting applications for the Spring 2017 cohort.

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November 30, 2016

Curate the best thinking available

By Theresa Summa

The Federal Source Code Policy, which was signed this year, requires federal agencies to inventory their custom software and make the inventory available for consumption and display by code.gov (among other things). The most pressing work in building code.gov was defining a software metadata schema — a way for agencies to format the details of the software they’ve built.

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November 25, 2016

What 18F is thankful for this Thanksgiving

By Greg Boone

Like all federal employees, we don't work on Thanksgiving. We do work on the day after, though, and this year we thought we'd pause to take a moment and reflect. Here are a few things that we're thankful for, what brings meaning to our lives, and what brings us to work every day.

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November 22, 2016

A vulnerability disclosure policy for the Technology Transformation Service

By Kimber Dowsett

We’ve published a vulnerability disclosure policy for 18F's parent organization, GSA's Technology Transformation Service, which lays out rules of the road for reporting vulnerabilities to various TTS-operated systems. We want a clear path for security researchers to tell us about vulnerabilities on our systems, and to assure those researchers that we won’t pursue legal action against them.

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