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On May 28, 2025, we filed an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. Read our statement. 🥄

Working with an internal team, 18F was prototyping a new permitting dashboard to replace an aging web portal that the team was using to enter and monitor project information on a legacy platform. The goals of the project were to bring better transparency, accountability, and predictability to monitoring of infrastructure projects. FAST-41 is a legislatively established process for improving federal agency coordination and timeliness of environmental reviews for infrastructure projects. Ending this 18F work seriously impacted the near-term future of this effort, including delays in improvements to transparency and, ultimately, faster permitting of projects that contribute to the American economy.