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May 27, 2016 By AMK

Creating ‘Technology Transformation Service’ is smart move for GSA

It’s been percolating for some time, but it’s finally here, the General Services Administration (GSA) has added a third business line.
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Administrator Denise Turner Roth of the U.S. General Services Administration announced the creation of the Technology Transformation Service.

Now it’s not just the federal government’s landlord (Public Buildings Service) and the government’s lead buyer (Federal Acquisition Service), it aims to be the tech innovation hub. In a blog post, GSA Administrator Dawn Turner Roth announced the creation of the Technology Transformation Service, to “help agencies navigate how to build, buy, and share user-centered and emerging technology solutions.”

The creation of the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) has been rumored for some time, and fueled by the way GSA has shifted its perspective on technology—not just creating contracts for customer agencies to buy from, but helping them develop the technology themselves. You can trace a fairly clear family tree for the TTS, starting in 2013, when the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF)—one of the first big ventures to attract private-sector tech talent to help tackle government problems and foster innovation within agencies—set up a permanent program office within GSA. In 2014, GSA created 18F, a “digital services agency” within the agency, whose charter was to not only help agencies write better RFP for tech, but to help develop digital products themselves. 18F has been enormously effective and influential since it began, winning over a lot of early critics, and just last month releasing 34 digital products for reuse by agencies.

Keep reading this article at: http://publicspendforum.net/technology-transformation-service-smart-move/

Also see Revamped 18F to get a contracting embed at: https://fcw.com/articles/2016/05/23/gsa-fas-embed.aspx

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: digital services, GSA. Technology Transformation Service, IT, Presidential Innovation Fellows, technology, TTS

May 9, 2016 By AMK

GSA announces new governmentwide tech unit that will house 18F

The General Services Administration has announced it’s standing up a new technology unit to expand the work of its in-house digital startup, 18F.

18F at GSACalled the Technology Transformation Service, the new unit aims to help other federal agencies take advantage of emerging technology and transition to more modern approaches to developing digital services, GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth said in an agency blog post announcing the move.

The new unit will absorb the programs and services previously offered by 18F, the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, and the Presidential Innovation Fellows program. They will all become offices in the new service, which will house a total of 293 employees, according to a GSA spokeswoman.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cio-briefing/2016/05/gsa-launches-new-governmentwide-tech-unit-house-18f/128001

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: 18F, acquisition reform, GSA, Presidential Innovation Fellows, procurement reform, technology, Technology Transformation Service

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