b'I am the chief operating officer for the agency. I manage the day to day operations. While I do get engaged in our core business lines, my day to day focus is on managing the internal operations of GSA.Allison Brigatithe first agencies to create the roles of the chief customerthe CXOs account for roughly 2,000 of our 11,000 officer and the chief data officer. As part of our evolution,employees and an annual budget of $700 million.the delivery of technology services has become a major line of business for GSA. In addition, we play significantAs deputy administrator, I also manage agencywide roles in promoting management best practices and efficientinitiatives. One of those initiatives is the Technology government operations through the development ofModernization Fund Project Management Office (TMF governmentwide policies. That function resides in Office PMO), which was established by the Modernizing of Government-wide Policy, which I led when I first Government Technology Act. The other initiative involves came to GSA.working on the proposed merger of the Office Personnel Management (OPM) and GSA. I also managed the standup GSAs scale of operation is pretty significant. We have moreof New Pay initiative: the governmentwide initiative to than 11,000 employees, $24 billion in annual revenues,establish GSA as the single civilian payroll provider. $43 billion in assets, including property, vehicles, and officeRecently, this initiative was transferred over to the GSA Chief equipment. A gross annual budget authority of $9.7 billionof Staffs office. Finally, managing GSAs coordination effort and an additional $17.8 billion in obligations, supportingduring presidential transition also falls under the deputy approximately $68 building in annual contracts. For context,administrators portfolio. our annual revenue puts us roughly in the top quarter of Fortune 500 companies, so were just a few spots below a very well-known coffee company. On the real estate side, with more than 368 million rentable square feet in over 8,700 active assets, we administer one of the largest and most diversified real estate portfolios in the world. In terms of the policy side, most significantly Im sure youve heard of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). The FAR set the rules that govern the more than $500 billion in annual procurement spend by the federal government. We manage the FAR in coordination with NASA, Department of Defense (DoD), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). What are the duties of GSAs deputy administrator? I am the chief operating officer for the agency. I manage the day-to-day operations. While I do get engaged in our core business lines, my day to day focus is on managing the internal operations of GSA. The C-Suite reports up through me, which include IT, finance, human resources, as well as the Office of Administrative Services, basically a mini-GSA within GSA, and Office of Customer Experience. Managing 36 www.businessofgovernment.org The Business of Government'