Alan Thomas

After more than a year as acting chief information officer, Christina Calvosa was named the permanent IT executive at the Federal Communications Commission.

The General Services Administration told agencies they could have up to three more years to transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract, but had to meet certain short term deadlines.

The General Services Administration Administrator Emily Murphy said customer needs and demands are the catalyst for changes to the $31 billion schedules program.

At the 2018 ELC conference, GSA and the IRS were among the agencies highlighting how robotics and other emerging technologies can make federal acquisition better and faster.

What is FAS doing to make its operations easy, efficient and modern? How is FAS delivering best value mission support to customer agencies?

Alan Thomas, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said the Technology Modernization Fund and the EIS contract are helping to push agencies toward better IT services.

Alan Thomas, the commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said the agency’s value to their customers is increasing according to a recent survey.

Alan Thomas is the FAS commissioner and he spoke with Federal News Radio executive editor Jason Miller about the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The Technology Modernization Fund Board offered further details to on what they are looking for in projects to agencies and industry.

The 2019 Defense Authorization bill includes a host of acquisition changes that impact both DoD and the government more broadly.