The OGP blog is on the move – literally – this week I am at the FedFleet Training Conference in Orlando, Florida.  We are listening, learning and collaborating with agencies across the federal government on fleet management for vehicles, aircraft and boats.  With us is Administrator Martha Johnson; Steve Kempf, Commissioner of GSA FAS; our R4 RA Shaym Reddy; Jan Dobbs, our OGP Director for Asset Management, Travel, and Transportation; and the fleet policy staff.   This is the 11th annual FedFleet Conference representing the best and latest in motor vehicle, boat, and aviation technologies.  We have almost 1800 attendees at this year’s conference and sold out all vendor exhibit space for a total of 482 exhibits!   We even have a helicopter on the show floor — a first for FedFleet!

Our focus this week is on transformation and change management to drive operational efficiency and strategic management within the federal fleet.   With federal budgets being reduced, agencies have all come to us over the last month or so and said “we need your expertise.”  They are discovering that we have something important to offer:  a clear vision to help them face down their challenges.  The fleet community is right in the middle of this issue and offering policy solutions.

To build our nation’s innovation muscle and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, President Obama set us on a course to put one million advanced vehicles on the road by 2015 and cut oil imports by one-third by 2025.  And, recognizing that our federal government is the owner of one of the largest vehicle fleets in the world, last May the President issued a Presidential Memorandum that directed agencies to implement smart, government-wide fleet practices.  

These include:

• Moving to the 100 percent purchase of alternative fuel vehicles by 2015,  
• Developing an allocation methodology for agencies to optimize and right-size their fleets, and
• Establishing a goal for the optimal size and composition of the federal fleet overall.

We are hearing more at FedFleet about right-sizing, electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, biofuel-based, alternative fuel vehicles, and as you will hear more from OGP, about the Vehicle Allocation Methodology (VAM) as we assist the agencies in their fleet management.   

Be sure to follow GSA OGP on Twitter at @gsa_ogp and @fedfleet as well as my own @ktturco.  If you attended, I hope you will let me know how you enjoyed FedFleet 2011 and how you like my blog as well.

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