> The VA has ~313,000 employees. Why shouldn't they just hire an engineering team? Why should they outsource a project to 18F? They're working on that! Marina

> The VA has ~313,000 employees. Why shouldn't they just hire an engineering team? Why should they outsource a project to 18F? They're working on that! Marina Martin, the CTO of the VA, has been building out the VA Digital Services team with some awesome people. Vets.gov is growing fast, and is open source, and should hopefully help a lot of veterans. I work with a lot of those people, and they're doing really good work.