Folks who believe in 18F and want it to continue the work it is doing: please please PLEASE actually write to your legislators and let them know that you are their constituent, that you are a tech worker, and that you support it. Unless you do, they will think that it is some niche issue that the general public doesn't care about. When that happens, the only things legislators have to base their decisions on are:

1) Their own (non-existent) expertise in software development and procurement.

2) Their advice of whatever experts they can find.

3) The outcome of this hearing by the House Oversight Comittee: https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/18f-and-u-s-digital-serv... and follow-up hearings

And what #2 really means is lobbyists, paid for by these same contractors. They will present themselves as the voice of the industry and unless a bunch of actual software engineers speak up, legislators would have every reason to believe them.

So please, find your congresscritter and let them know that you care about this: http://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/

Especially do this if you live in the district of one of the members of the house oversight committee: https://oversight.house.gov/subcommittee/full-committee/

- Carolyn Maloney of NY-12, Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg and the east side of Manhattan

- MARK DESAULNIER
CA-11: Just west of Berkley

- William Lacy Clay of MO-1, Greater St Louis

- Stephen Lynch of MA-8, Boston and South Shore

- Jim Cooper of TN-5, Nashville and some areas to the west

- Gerald E. Connoly of VA-11, suburbs between Arlington and Manassas

- Matt Cartwright of PA-17: Scranton, Schuylkill, and Munroe

- Tammy Duckworth of IL-8: Northwest Chicago

- Robin Kelly
IL-2: South East Chicago

- Brenda Lawrence
MI-14: A weird gerrymander northish of Detroit but also the lake coast

- Ted Lieu
CA-33: A wide swath of pacific coast near Venice Beach

- Bonnie Watson Coleman
NJ-12: Princeton, Trenton, and environs

- Brendan F. Boyle
PA-13: North and Northeast of Philadelphia.

- Peter Welch for the entirety of Vermont

- Michelle Lujan Grisham
NM-1: Albuquerque and areas southeast of it.

- Trey Gowdy
SC-4: Spartanburg and Greenville area

- Mark Meadows
NC-11: Asheville and the blue ridge mountains

- Jim Jordan
OH-4: a weird gerrymander northwest of Columbus and south of Cleveland

- John Mica of FL-7, north of Orlando

- Michael Turner of OH-10, north of Cincinnati

- John Duncan
TN-2: Jefferson city and area around it.

- Tim Walberg
MI-7: Rural area and suburbs south-west of Detroit.

- Justin Amash
MI-3: Grand Rapids and rural areas between it and Lansing. (frame all arguments from a libertarian perspective)

- Blake Farnthold
TX-27: Corpus Cristi, Lockhart, and a bunch of gulf coast.

- Cynthia Lummis, for the entirety of Wyoming

- Thomas Massie
KY-4: A weird gerrymander north of Lexington and south of Cincinnati

- Ron Desantis
FL-6: Daytona Beach area

- Mick Mulvaney
SC-5: Rock Hill and rural area north of Columbia

- Ken Buck
CO-4: the eastern 3rd of the state

- Mark Walker
NC-6: Greensboro and rural areas north of Durham & Winston-salem

- Rod Blum
IA-1: Cedar Rapids and the areas in the northeast of the state.

- Jody Hice
GA-10: Rural area between Atlanta and Augusta

- Steve Russel
OK-5: Oklahoma City, Seminole, and a bunch of rural area around that.

- Buddy Carter
GA-1: The southeast corner of the state and atlantic coast

- Glenn Grothman
WI-6: rural area north of Madison and Milwaukee

- William Hurd
TX-23: El Paso and all the area between it and San Antonio

- Gary J. Palmer
AL-6: A weird gerrymander of the rural area surrounding Birmingham

- Paul Gosar
AZ-4: Prescott and the western border of the state.

- Scott Desharlais
TN-4: The south-central part of the state. Areas Northeast of Chattanooga.

- Eleanor Holmes Norton: DC

- Stacey E. Plaskett: US Virgin Islands