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In Federal News Network's ongoing special report, GSA @ 70: Mission evolved, we explore through interviews, data and photos how the agency's impact and importan...
In Federal News Network's ongoing special report, GSA @ 70: Mission evolved, we explore through interviews, data and photos how the agency's impact and importance has grown over the last seven decades. This photo gallery highlights how GSA has changed over the last 70 years from basic things like the logo to serving small businesses to technology and telecommunications.
In 1955, GSA’s mission was to streamline the administrative work of the federal government. The agency consolidated the National Archives Establishment, the Federal Works Agency, and the Public Buildings Administration; the Bureau of Federal Supply and the Office of Contract Settlement; and the War Assets Administration into one organization tasked with administering supplies and providing workplaces for federal employees. It also disposed of war surplus goods, managed and stored government records, handled emergency preparedness, and stockpiled strategic supplies for wartime. (Source: GSA)
On July 1, 1949, President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act that created a new agency — the General Services Administration. The goal of the law was simple: Bring together property and supply, building construction and management, records management and certain public works functions. Or more easily said, make the government run effectively and efficiently by centralizing many of the services everyone needs.
Today, GSA’s mission goals are much the same as they were in 1949, but the way the agency meets them is wholly different.
GSA continues to be, in many ways, the hub of the government, making sure agencies have office space to work in, technology to communicate with and travel regulations to follow.
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