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DHS may not have the funding to work together
Homeland Security is asking for $75 million to consolidate operations and cut the number of leases from 180 to no more than 10. House lawmakers say the DHS and GSA did better in explaining how the funding would be used and where the savings would come from, but members of Congress say tight budgets may force them to spend on operational issues instead.
Tags: management , contracting , Elaine Duke , David Price , Hal Rogers , DHS , GSA , House Appropriations Committee , USCG , St. Elizabeth's , DHS headquarters
Bob Peck is GSA's new Commissioner of Public Buildings
Tags: management , technology , GSA , Commissioner of Public Buildings , E-Gov
D.C. telecenters to lose GSA funding
Administrator Martha Johnson said changes in the way people work and the technology they have access to are major reasons why GSA will no longer guarantee a specific number of workers at the area telecenters. GSA remains committed to telework in other ways, including the launch of a new collaboration platform called FedSpace. It also awarded a contract to deploy telepresence at 15 offices around the country.
Tags: technology , Martha Johnson , Dave McClure , GSA , PTO , AT&T , telework , telecenter , video conferencing , FedSpace , Web 2.0 , collaboration , Jason Miller
GSA tries to have less need for itself
While GSA feds think about how to make federal buildings greener, they're going to be doing it from outside their own offices.
Tags: technology , TANDBERG Telework Center , telework , PBS , GSA , Martha Johnson , Diane Herdt , VOIP , Suzanne Kubota
Agency Instability: GSA nominee remains in limbo
Martha Johnson seen by many as the most qualified candidate to be GSA administrator in a decade. But her nomination remains on hold in the Senate because Sen. Christopher Bond is unhappy with GSA's plans for a new federal building in Kansas City. Some call Bond's use of the hold authority an abuse of power.
Tags: management , Joseph Lieberman , Susan Collins , Christopher Bond , Sahar Wali , Stephen Leeds , Paul Prouty , GSA , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , White House , Olga Grkavac , Martha Johnson , Paul Light , TechAmerica , Acting administrator , confirmation process , Congress , series , Agency Instability
Agency Instability: GSA nominee remains in limbo
Martha Johnson seen by many as the most qualified candidate to be GSA administrator in a decade. But her nomination remains on hold in the Senate because Sen. Christopher Bond is unhappy with GSA's plans for a new federal building in Kansas City. Some call Bond's use of the hold authority an abuse of power.
Tags: management , Joseph Lieberman , Susan Collins , Christopher Bond , Sahar Wali , Stephen Leeds , Paul Prouty , GSA , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , White House , Olga Grkavac , Martha Johnson , Paul Light , TechAmerica , Acting administrator , confirmation process , Congress , series , Agency Instability
