GSA is a 12,000-person agency with a $27 billion annual budget. The agency manages $500 billion in federal assets, including 8,600 government-owned or leased buildings, 482 of which are historic properties, and 208,000 vehicles.
• Directs the Federal Acquisition Service (both as a direct purchasing arm and as the standard setter for other governmental agencies and departments) and the Public Buildings Service (management of thousands of government properties and the disposal arm for unused/underused real estate)
• Supports disaster recovery and continuity planning, including the provisioning of alternative recovery sites
• Serves as a key leader in improving the delivery of IT across the federal government
• Advocates for digital government service delivery and builds the mechanisms and systems necessary to make it possible
• Continually assesses the performance of federal services (e.g., buildings, acquisitions, IT) and works with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop and refine policies to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of those operations; where there are defined opportunities for savings, develop services to capture them
• Engages with agency leadership across the administration to inform them of efficiency opportunities, and work with OMB to create policy and resource pressures for agencies to adopt them
• Communicates internally to staff and externally to various stakeholders (e.g., Capitol Hill and the media) about the goals and work of GSA to inform and encourage adoption of its recommended practices