Published on: 2025-06-22 22:15:50
Healthcare.gov, the government health insurance marketplace website, launched in October 2013 only to buckle under the weight of just 2,000 simultaneous users. As millions of Americans stared at error messages and frozen screens, a political crisis unfolded, but so did a new era of government technology. The result was 18F, an in-house digital services consulting agency that brought Silicon Valley expertise to government, challenging decades of outdated procurement practices and introducing a r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 09:00:37
You would think, given Elon Musk’s apparent disgust for government waste, that he would be thrilled to see staffers who have dedicated their careers to making things within the federal government work better. But, according to Wired, he and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency have opted instead to just fire them unceremoniously and abandon their projects to streamline how the government functions. Per Wired, Musk’s chainsaw-style of cutting has effectively cost the General Servi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 06:14:08
Since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency took over important government technology teams within the General Services Administration (GSA) and what was formally known as the United States Digital Service (USDS), around 200 technologists have either resigned or been fired, jeopardizing about a decade’s worth of work dedicated to everything from public health to passport applications. The culling of the GSA’s 18F division, in particular, a specialized digital services agency
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 16:22:34
Since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency took over important government technology teams within the General Services Administration (GSA) and what was formally known as the United States Digital Service (USDS), around 200 technologists have either resigned or been fired, jeopardizing about a decade’s worth of work dedicated to everything from public health to passport applications. The culling of the GSA’s 18F division, in particular, a specialized digital services agency
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Billionaire Mark Cuban has a big idea for some federal workers who just lost their job: get into consulting. The General Service Administration fired workers from its 18F office on Saturday morning as part of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s ongoing trimming down of the federal government. After news of the firings hit, Cuban sent out his remedy on Bluesky. “If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company. It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 23:58:28
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, offering support on the social network Bluesky for newly laid-off federal workers whose job it was to make government tech work better. His message, which quickly gained traction, urged the displaced engineers and designers to turn the upheaval to their advantage. “If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company,” wrote Cuban. “It’s just a matter of time before DOGE nee
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 21:15:02
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, posting an unexpected offer of support for newly laid-off federal workers on the social network Bluesky. His message, which quickly gained traction, urged the displaced engineers and designers to turn the upheaval to their advantage. “If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company,” wrote Cuban. “It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they
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