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The Commerce Department is opening an online library of economic data. Commerce is partnering with the European Commission to stand up the open source tool, which will use R programming language to make it easier for people to search and organize the data based on their search.
October 20, 2016 -
Aaron Snow, the executive director of 18F and deputy commissioner of GSA’s Technology Transformation Service, will step down on Oct. 13 and serve as an advisor to the incoming commissioner of the new service.
October 07, 2016 -
Denise Turner Roth, the GSA administrator, said the agency tried to address some of the issues highlighted in a House hearing in June during a recent industry day.
September 14, 2016 -
DHS, EPA, 18F and others are developing separate contracts for dev/ops services, creating both a much needed culture change, but possibly also another area where contract proliferation and duplication reign.
August 08, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is asking GAO to review how the U.S. Digital Services prioritizes programs as well as how agencies are implementing the CIO authorities under FITARA.
July 04, 2016 -
Federal News Radio obtained a previously unreleased memo from federal CIO Tony Scott detailing 18 milestones over the next six months to make the Login.gov platform a reality.
June 13, 2016 -
Two years after the administration set up two new federal "start-ups" to help agencies adopt more innovative technology, some in the public and private sectors say the U.S. Digital Service and 18F still operate in their own silos, and there is little communication from the organizations as they embark on new projects.
June 10, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office will tell House lawmakers Friday that 18F is losing money and doesn’t expect to make enough revenue to cover its costs until 2019, according to testimony obtained by Federal News Radio.
June 09, 2016 -
Too many federal sites feel dated or present a confusing face. But now they have a better-than-even chance of improvement.
May 24, 2016 -
GSA's 18F organization is taking a fourth bite at the identity management apple by developing a new platform called Login.gov despite 15 years of struggle to come up with a way for citizens, businesses and others to securely interact with agencies online.
May 23, 2016 -
The General Services Administration inspector general issued a management alert saying the 18F organization didn’t follow agency policy and may have caused a cyber breach.
May 13, 2016 -
GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth announced May 3 the creation of the Technology Transformation Service, which brings together 18F, the Presidential Innovation Fellows program and the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT).
May 03, 2016 -
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services developed myUSCIS, a site that more easily explains the immigration process and provides naturalization resources to users. CIS won the top Igniting Innovation Award from ACT-IAC at a showcase in Washington April 25.
April 26, 2016 -
Senior officials with the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget say the answer of whether or not the May 2017 full roll-out of the DATA Act is more complicated than a simple yes or no.
April 19, 2016 -
Greg Godbout, who co-founded the 18F organization at GSA and was in the initial class of Presidential Innovation Fellows, is leaving government to join cBrain, a Danish software firm.
April 19, 2016