GSA OIG to Examine Impact of Trump Administration Directives Sep 26, 2025 | 2:17 pm The General Services Administration’s (GSA) internal watchdog has a list of things it wants to get a closer look at for fiscal year (FY) 2026 – including those related to recent Trump administration executive orders and actions led by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). […]
GSA Shuts Down 18F Tech Office, Director Defends Results Mar 3, 2025 | 11:41 am The General Services Administration (GSA) has shut down its 18F organization, a digital consulting office created during the Obama administration to partner with agencies to help them build or buy technology services. […]
GSA Seeking Permanent Director for Login.gov Feb 14, 2022 | 11:55 am The General Services Administration is going on the hunt for a permanent director to lead its Login.gov effort and oversee deployment of the $187 million Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) award GSA got for the project last year. […]
USDS, 18F Must Coordinate on Developing Agency Guidance Dec 13, 2021 | 1:23 pm The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) U.S. Digital Service (USDS) and the General Services Administration’s (GSA) 18F program must coordinate more consistently on developing agency guidance to eliminate overlap or duplication of guidance or conflicting guidance, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
Senate Bill Aims $100M Annual Grants to State, Local Governments for IT Fixes May 20, 2021 | 4:00 pm New legislation introduced in the Senate today would authorize $100 million of Federal spending per year, for a period of seven years, to help state and local governments take quick action on fixing pressing IT problems. […]
Biden to Nominate 18F Veteran Carnahan to Head GSA Apr 6, 2021 | 4:33 pm The White House said today that President Biden intends to nominate Robin Carnahan to become administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA). […]
Wisconsin Turns to Federal Help for UI Infrastructure Modernization Mar 23, 2021 | 1:48 pm The state of Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is modernizing the IT infrastructure of its unemployment insurance (UI) system in concert with the U.S. Digital Response (USDR) and the General Service Administration’s (GSA) 18F. […]
18F Veteran Piazza to Serve as USDA Senior Advisor for Delivery Jan 28, 2021 | 11:18 am The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) named Rebecca Piazza as senior advisor for delivery in the office of the under secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services. […]
GSA’s 18F Releases Federal and State IT Project “De-Risking” Guides Oct 13, 2020 | 12:05 pm The General Services Administration’s 18F office has released “de-risking” guides to help agencies deliver successful IT projects on both the Federal and state levels. 18F, which is part of GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) organization, partners with Federal agencies to assist them in improving the user experience of government services by helping agencies build and buy technology. […]
18F Officials Recommend Video Chats, Progress Reports for Telework Success Jul 22, 2020 | 9:18 am As the General Services Administration’s 18F stepped up to help agencies with the quick technical shift to telework, two officials from the program shared their top tips for helping the workplace culture adjust to a remote environment. […]
Whittaker Named Acting Executive Director at GSA’s 18F Feb 12, 2020 | 2:39 pm Brian Whittaker has been named Acting Executive Director at the General Services Administration’s 18F digital services delivery office, a GSA spokesperson confirmed. […]
18F Launches National Security and Intelligence Portfolio Dec 13, 2019 | 9:01 am 18F, the digital services delivery hub of the General Services Administration, launched a National Security and Intelligence Portfolio to help national defense agencies acquire new digital solutions, according to a Dec. 10 post on the agency’s blog. […]
GSA’s 18F Begins Executive Director Search Nov 18, 2019 | 9:27 am The General Services Administration’s 18F organization will begin seeking applications for a new GS-15-Executive Director on Nov. 18. 18F is a Federal office that works with other agencies to “fix technical problems, build products, and improve how government serves the public through technology.” […]
DoJ CTO Embraces Coming Disruption, Human-Centered Design Oct 25, 2018 | 4:28 pm Department of Justice Chief Technology Officer Ron Bewtra stressed the need for modernization and human-centered design to help Federal IT adjust to disruptive technologies while better serving agency missions and those who depend on them. […]
GSA Names Olson Acting Director of TTS Aug 22, 2018 | 4:40 pm Kelly Olson, chief of staff for the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology and Transformation Services (TTS) organization, will take over as acting director of TTS and Deputy Commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) beginning Monday, August 27. […]
GSA TTS at the Crossroads–New Digital Transformer? Aug 19, 2018 | 5:52 pm We’re sitting at a critical inflection point in Federal IT. Cloud wars are raging, AI’s bubbling, and IoT’s, well, almost literally, everywhere. And, as in any conflict, the first casualty is all too often the truth. […]
MeriTalk News Briefs: House Okays Ag BB Bill, 18F Execs Move to Civic Tech, GAO Weighs in on Fed Reorg Jul 24, 2018 | 6:12 pm Welcome to MeriTalk News Briefs, where we bring you all the day’s action that didn’t quite make the headlines. No need to shout about ‘em, but we do feel that they merit talk. […]
MeriTalk News Briefs: New Faces at Marine Cyber Command, 18F, Data Coalition Jul 2, 2018 | 5:35 pm Welcome to MeriTalk News Briefs, where we bring you all the day’s action that didn’t quite make the headlines. No need to shout about ‘em, but we do feel that they merit talk. […]
Certification Gives 18F’s Cloud.gov More Portability May 29, 2018 | 4:48 pm Cloud.gov, the Federal government’s cloud platform that offers agencies a fast way to host and update websites and web applications, last month became part of a growing ecosystem where applications and development skills are portable across cloud providers. […]
18F Provides ‘Healthy Competition’ Leading to DATA Act Success Jun 30, 2017 | 8:22 am GSA’s 18F provides positive competition to consultants and contractors, according to Booz Allen Hamilton vice president Bryce Pippert. The proof: the success of DATA Act implementation and the beta website of usaspending.gov. […]
CSRA Helps Emerging Tech Companies Play Their Hands in Government May 10, 2017 | 3:26 pm In order to get government agencies to embrace emerging technologies, the Federal government must perfect digital transformation, said Greg Godbout at CSRA’s Emerging Technologies Day. CSRA hosted eight companies that want to try their products in the Federal government sphere. […]
The Situation Report: What NASA Can Teach Us About Government’s Innovation Potential Apr 19, 2017 | 2:57 pm The government doesn’t need “nongovernment culture” to improve cybersecurity. What it needs is to recruit a workforce with a long-term vision of service and innovators driven not by the prospect of living a life of success but of living a life of meaning. Nowhere is this more apparent than at NASA. […]
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to Work With 18F to Lure Tech Talent Apr 14, 2017 | 8:52 am The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency needs to attract new tech talent with new ideas and a desire to work on something bigger and more important than the next popular dating app. One of the ways the agency hopes to do that is by continuing to work with the government’s own in-house innovation shop, 18F. […]
Grant Schneider Sees Continued Cybersecurity Role For USDS, 18F Mar 28, 2017 | 2:42 pm Federal agencies need more help from IT groups within government and from the private sector to mitigate cybersecurity threats, according to Grant Schneider, acting Federal chief information security officer at the Office of Management and Budget. […]
Former 18F Deputy Director Becomes Ontario’s First Chief Digital Officer Mar 27, 2017 | 3:56 pm Ontario Province announced on Monday that former 18F Deputy Executive Director Hillary Hartley has been appointed as the province’s first chief digital officer. […]
18F Co-Founder Snow Announces He is Leaving Government Feb 23, 2017 | 2:56 pm Aaron Snow, senior adviser for the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service, announced he is leaving government on Feb. 28. […]
IG Report Slams 18F for Rogue Security Practices Feb 21, 2017 | 1:36 pm The General Services Administration’s 18F “routinely disregarded and circumvented” long-established GSA IT security and acquisition policies for every major system it operated, according to a new inspector general report released today. […]
Cloud.gov Achieves FedRAMP Accelerated Authorization Feb 2, 2017 | 5:39 pm The General Services Administration announced that cloud.gov, 18F’s service that enables Federal agencies to host and update websites and Web applications, had obtained a Provisional Authority to Operate from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board. […]
The Situation Report: Prepare For a Radical Shakeup in Federal IT Nov 23, 2016 | 1:30 pm Analysts and pundits have been wringing their hands for the past two weeks trying to predict what the election of Donald Trump means for Federal IT and technology policy. Of course, nobody has a good answer because nobody really knows. […]
The Weekend Reader-Nov. 11 Nov 11, 2016 | 9:47 am Catch up on some reading this weekend. Here are a few interesting items from MeriTalk. […]