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  • Earth Day 2016

    April 22nd is Earth Day. It's time to Reduce, Recycle and Reuse one of our most valuable organizational resources...our data!


  • Data is King

    540 takes the DoD Justification Books and serves up the data in different formats to satisfy the various needs of developers and analysts alike.


  • Seller’s Perspective: The Brave New World of 18F’s BPA

    540.co recounts their experience opening up the process.


  • Studio 540 - 18F Agile BPA MVP Timelapse

    This video shows the last 2 hours of our prototyping to reach the end of our first sprint and achieve MVP Status.


  • Agile Delivery Services BPA - A Different Kind of Proposal

    Earlier this week, the General Services Administration issued the long-awaited Agile Delivery Services BPA Request for Quotations. True to their word, our friends at GSA 18F issued an RFQ that was different….. refreshingly different.


  • It's not about the App, It's about the APIs

    Sometimes I feel like a broken record when evangelizing the importance of data sharing (even within the secure walls of the Pentagon) and how important it is to ensure that data is available via an API...


  • ...like a startup

    540 has the energy that I’ve been seeking since my days with Ideal, and finding it now, at this stage in my career, has been refreshing. Our energy is contagious, and we’re ready to spread that to our friends in Government. We want our Government to think, operate, and innovate…like a startup.