The office has been deemed “non-critical,” Thomas Shedd, director of GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, emailed staff at 1am. The agency’s acting head, Stephen Ehikian, told GSA staff Monday that the agency, which works across the government on tech, procurement and real estate, would be conducting a reduction in force.
Other GSA offices “have already or will be impacted” as part of GSA’s layoffs being done under the direction of the White House, wrote Shedd.
“The 18F Office has been identified as part of this phase of GSA’s Reduction in Force (RIF) as non-critical,” wrote Shedd.
“This decision was made with explicit direction from the top levels of leadership within both the Administration and GSA,” he continued. “There are no other TTS programs impacted at this time, however we anticipate more change in the future.”
The team was founded the same year as the U.S. Digital Service, which has since been transformed into Elon Musk’s DOGE.
Musk has said that he wants to fix the government’s at-times antiquated technology — which featured prominently in the executive order creating the DOGE, too — but legacy staffers at USDS who’ve been working on government tech problems have also been fired or quit in protest.
The billionaire wrote on his social media platform X that 18F and TTS had be ..
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