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The 18F email is still the best place to go. I'm not on the login.gov team, but I can forward the link to them.

login.gov is currently live on this app from the Customs and Border Patrol https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cbp-jobs/id1210368989?mt=8 We're working with other agencies interested i…

Our repos can be a lot to wade through. You can see examples of our specific projects here https://18f.gsa.gov/what-we-deliver/ (and each project links to the right repos if you wa…

They are codes for FOIA exemptions. http://www.foiadvocates.com/exemptions.html

That's why all of our work is open source. Agencies are free to reuse work we perform for other partners. Often, agencies will still need help implementing it for their specific ne…

It’s less about unions and more about classifications of employees. Most federal employees are either “career” or “political” positions. Political positions are typically replaced …

Accounting for how the government spends money is actually a very difficult problem, but 18F is also working on that. We're helping the Treasury Department implement the DATA Act, …

Certainly. Lots of agencies have to process forms submitted by the public, and when people have trouble filling out forms it makes processing them much more difficult. We've been a…

Fortunately, 18F isn't funded by Congress. Agencies pay us for our services out of their own budgets. As long as we keep delivering good work, our funding is secure. *I'm an 18F em…

18F came out of the Presidential Innovation Fellowship (pif.gov) when some fellows wanted to stick around and continue their public service. So they created 18F as a more permanent…

Hello! Happy to answer any questions you have about 18F. The basics: we're an office of federal employees inside the General Services Administration that helps other federal agenci…

TSA paid $47,000 for the app, not millions. $47,000 may still be too much, but it's not millions. http://www.zdnet.com/article/tsa-contracted-ibm-47k-for-ipad...

18F | Full-time | ONSITE (DC, SF, NYC, CHICAGO) and REMOTE 18F is a technology consulting office inside the government, for the government (i.e. we are all federal employees!). We …

Thanks! Our Talent Team has been hard at work on that. If there's any info missing from https://pages.18f.gov/joining-18f/index.html , please feel free to file an issue and we'll t…

That's right. There's no set grade or step for engineers, but most of our senior engineers start at a 15. Your grade and step (and therefore your pay) are determined by previous ex…

There isn't a set grade level for engineers, but most of our staff starts at a GS 14 or 15.

Correct.

If you are a non-citizen national of the U.S. or have been admitted to the U.S. for permanent residence and hold a valid green card then you can work at 18F.

You can work from wherever you are, and you can change locations while working for 18F. But we don't provide money for relocation. Another note that the federal pay scale is determ…

18F - https://18f.gsa.gov - Washington, DC; San Francisco; Chicago; New York; Remote - Full-Time 18F is a technology consulting office inside the government, for the government. We…

Yup. Good eye. We've updated the post with a new image. *I'm an 18F employee.

Thanks! It's an exciting place to be.

That's probably outside 18F's scope, as they are cost recoverable and must be hired by a federal agency. So getting that done would require convincing a federal agency to spend the…

Challenge.gov might be about as close as you can get to a list of government problems with money attached to them. The government has lots of ways it supports small businesses, but…

Some of our project already have a public Slack channel where you can chat with the project team, but that is an area where we can improve. You can sign up here. https://chat.18f.g…