11/8/23: A new path forward for TTS; modernizing the acquisition infrastructure at the Federal Acquisition Service; an annual checkup for IT at OSD

The beginning of December will mark the one-year anniversary of Ann Lewis’s tenure as Deputy Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, and Director of GSA’s Technology Transformation Services. She followed Dave Zvenyach as TTS’s head; he left in August 2022. At ELC 2023, I ask Ann about her vision for TTS.The acquisition arm of the General Services Administration is doing a technology transformation like a lot of parts of the Federal government. Charlotte Phelan is Assistant Commissioner for Strategy and Innovation in the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration. She’s leading that transformation effort at FAS. At ELC 2023, I ask her how much of the transformation is similar to other organizations in government, and how much is unique to acquisition.The job of Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Secretary of Defense is a relatively new one inside the Pentagon. Danielle Metz took that job a little more than a year ago, and on the main stage at last year’s ELC, she told me about some of her objectives. At ELC 2023, she tells me what her office has accomplished in the past year.Appian Government event, November 29, 2023