/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/authors/v-david-zvenyach/ Recent content on Digital.gov Hugo en-us /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/event/2022/07/20/white-house-and-gsa-open-innovation-forum-building-equitable-partnerships/ Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:00:00 -0500 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/event/2022/07/20/white-house-and-gsa-open-innovation-forum-building-equitable-partnerships/ Celebrating OSTP’s biennial report to Congress on Implementation of Federal Prizes and Citizen Science Authority, Fiscal Years 2019 - 2020, and the role of community partnerships in the federal open innovation landscape. /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/04/11/to-get-things-done-you-need-great-secure-tools/ Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:00:12 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/04/11/to-get-things-done-you-need-great-secure-tools/ To folks new to government, one of the most surprising differences between our work and work in the private sector are the barriers in accessing commercially available software, and commercially available Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in particular. There are good reasons for these barriers: the government places premiums on considerations such as security, privacy, accessibility, license management, /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/10/16/open-source-micro-purchasing-an-experiment-in-federal-acquisition/ Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:36:47 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/10/16/open-source-micro-purchasing-an-experiment-in-federal-acquisition/ 18F is an open-source team. We currently have hundreds of publicly available repositories, with dozens under active development. We’ve had numerous contributions from colleagues within government, and contributions from members of the public. But in the next few weeks, we are going to run an experiment: we want to contract for contributions. And we want /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/09/01/announcing-the-agile-bpa-awards-a-conversation-about-the-process/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:10:59 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/09/01/announcing-the-agile-bpa-awards-a-conversation-about-the-process/ In January, 18F Consulting announced a new kind of process for vendors to compete for software acquisition contracts. The Agile Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) process would be open to existing vendors on Schedule 70, and require vendors to submit a working prototype based on a public dataset—and then show their work in a publicly available