Hillary Hartley is co-founder and lead designer at 18F, an internal tech hub at the General Services Administration. (Jeffrey MacMillan) ...

18F, named after its headquarters at 18th and F Street, plays crucial roles across the federal bureaucracy: It’s the team behind the IRS free tax filing system.

So, 18F, working with the 10x program, put out a program called the De-risking Government Technology Guide, and that has had profound impacts.

18F has consistently saved other agencies money, and is seen as an example of modern government that other agencies (and governments) should learn from. It's an insane agency to dismantle.

The 18F office was deemed “non-critical,” wrote Thomas Shedd, director of GSA’s Technology Transformation Services to staff at the time of its dismantling.

The GSA's tech unit, known as the 18F office, employed a team of researchers, website designers and product managers. It's unclear exactly how many workers were impacted.

The plans of the General Services Administration’s digital tiger team, 18F, to build a single online sign-in interface through which Americans can log on to digital government services are ...

But 18F fell out of favor under Trump, who put it under the Federal Acquisition Service in his first term. Trump allies saw the group as promoting diversity, equity and inclusion in federal software.

In California, 18F has helped the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the California Department of Social Services take a $400 million project to upgrade the child welfare system.

18F, a digital consulting office within the General Services Administration, is at work on three projects with federal agencies, it said this week in announcing its 10th anniversary. The office ...

Mike Bland, a former Google software programmer now with 18F, hopes the new Jekyll-based documentation platform will motivate cultural change. Because the Hub is based in Jekyll, “which is very ...