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March 25, 2016 By AMK

What’s next for 18F?

Two years after its founding, the federal government’s much-hyped tech consulting team 18F will expand its work for state and local governments, grow its federal business and hire more techies, according to one of its leaders.

What Is 18F.The 169-member group, sustained by the revenue it collects from customer agencies, also plans to focus on its existing portfolio of projects including:

  • the agile Blanket Purchase Agreement, which pre-vets tech companies to sell incremental software development services to the government;
  • a new online “micropurchasing” marketplace for bits of code; and
  • Cloud.gov, an app platform.

Another 18F team is working on a governmentwide “identity management problem.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2016/03/whats-next-18f/126828

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: 18F, agile, BPA. micropurchasing, GSA, GWAC, innovation, technology

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