“At the end of January 2025, members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took over the GSA, which manages federal real estate and technology. Wired magazine reported ‘an effort to use IT credentials from the Executive Office of the President to access GSA laptops and internal GSA infrastructure’.
In an all-hands meeting with the Technology Transformation Services (TTS) in early February, Thomas Shedd, the new TTS director and an associate of Elon Musk and DOGE, told 18F and TTS staff that ‘you all are one of the most respected technology groups in the federal government,’ saying the staff ‘are so key and critical to this next phase’ of building federal software. But around the same time, Musk tweeted that 18F ‘has been deleted’.
On March 1, Shedd sent an email to all 18F staff, describing them as ‘non-essential’ and ‘non-critical’, and eliminated the office "under direction from the White House".[24] The email with the news indicated that more TTS programs will be impacted. The former employees of 18F said in an official statement that they had been abruptly locked out of their computers and email at midnight ET, with ‘no chance to assist in an orderly transition in our work.‘“
It’s okay, I’m sure the boys at Booz Allen will do a quarter of the work at five times the cost [1].
“At the end of January 2025, members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took over the GSA, which manages federal real estate and technology. Wired magazine reported ‘an effort to use IT credentials from the Executive Office of the President to access GSA laptops and internal GSA infrastructure’.
In an all-hands meeting with the Technology Transformation Services (TTS) in early February, Thomas Shedd, the new TTS director and an associate of Elon Musk and DOGE, told 18F and TTS staff that ‘you all are one of the most respected technology groups in the federal government,’ saying the staff ‘are so key and critical to this next phase’ of building federal software. But around the same time, Musk tweeted that 18F ‘has been deleted’.
On March 1, Shedd sent an email to all 18F staff, describing them as ‘non-essential’ and ‘non-critical’, and eliminated the office "under direction from the White House".[24] The email with the news indicated that more TTS programs will be impacted. The former employees of 18F said in an official statement that they had been abruptly locked out of their computers and email at midnight ET, with ‘no chance to assist in an orderly transition in our work.‘“
It’s okay, I’m sure the boys at Booz Allen will do a quarter of the work at five times the cost [1].
[1] https://www.wsj.com/business/big-consulting-bosses-meet-with...
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What else you got for us today OP? How about the actual recent news on this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221549
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222842
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224350
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093859