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Five contracting tweaks that have yielded 18F better procurements (thus far)

By Alla Goldman Seiffert , Rebecca Refoy-Sidibe , Mark Headd , Randy Hart , Steven Reilly
July 17, 2018 acquisition services rfp ghostwriting procurement lessons learned

Here are five procurement hacks — both in the context of our Agile Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) and in general — that we’ve made in the past few years to make the procurement process a bit more joyful and effective.
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The case for open source software

By Ian Lee
July 12, 2018 open source open government

Software is everywhere at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Much of their software portfolio is open source. They began releasing software in the 1990s — long before the Federal Source Code Policy required government institutions to make their code available to each other and to release at least 20 percent to the public.
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Introducing Accessibility for Teams

By Maya Benari
July 10, 2018 accessibility design product launch

The Accessibility Guild in the Technology Transformation Services (TTS) at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) set out to understand how people in different roles practice accessibility. We asked designers, developers, and product managers across our organization to share their accessibility practices, from self-testing to asking for help.
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Ask 18F — How do you tackle the problem of associating plain language to formal governmental terms?

By Cordelia Yu
July 6, 2018 ask 18f content design

Ask 18F is an advice column that answers questions sent in by federal employees. In this edition, we’ll talk about how to associate plain language to formal governmental terms
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Presidential Innovation Fellows bringing new approaches to nation’s biggest challenges

By Gil Alterovitz , Justin Koufopoulos
July 3, 2018 presidential innovation fellows day in the life health and human services

As the application process for the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program ramps up, a number of applicants have been asking: What is it like to be a Presidential Innovation Fellow? Two Fellows, Dr. Gil Alterovitz and Justin Koufopoulos, share the origins of their collaboration and a typical day in the life of a Fellow.
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