18F and OSS in the U.S. Federal Government (Changelog Interviews #230)
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18F: A Startup Fund for Government Services and Tools
18F went under audit by our IG starting at the beginning of 2016. We have a three-year memorandum of understanding with them that essentially says, you know, we're going to be your startup fund. And when we use the ASF, as we call it, programs are required to have a plan to get back to cost neutral. So we've been saying that we will probably be cost neutral in 2019. In the meantime, we are growing revenue. Just from fiscal year 2015 to 2016, I think there was a 69% increase in revenue.
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