The Federal Meeting Facilities site was designed by GSA’s Office of Government-wide Policy to collect and display Federal meeting space nationwide. To comply with Executive Order (EO) 13589, Promoting Efficient Spending, GSA’s Office of Government-wide Policy developed a Federal Meeting Facilities Tool designed to collect and display Federal meeting space nationwide. This web-based tool allows Federal agencies to maximize the shared use of Federal facilities. Federal agencies provide this information to ensure accuracy of data. GSA is available to work very closely with each agency to help agency representatives populate this tool. Don’t see your meeting space? – contact Pathina.Fitzgerald@gsa.gov and she will provide access to enter your meeting space in the web-based tool. Let us know what you think of this new tool!
- Published by Kathleen Turco on Monday, August 13th, 2012 under Acquisition,Asset management,Committee,Federal building,Identity,Information Sharing,Mobile,per diem,Policy,Real property,Regulatory,Strategy,Sustainability,Transportation,Travel
GSA OGP is proud to have its own Policy Inc blog be selected as one of the 50 must-read federal technology blogs by FedTech Magazine.
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Our OGP Office of Travel and Transportation launched a mobile app this week for the GSA Per Diem Travel rates. Congratulations to Jill Denning and team from the Office Travel and Transportation Office for their innovation and response to the mobile needs of their customers! The app was developed in collaboration with GSA’s Chief Information Officer and Enterprise Web Management teams. This is OGP’s second mobile phone app, the first being the Sustainable Facilities Tool from our Federal High Performance Green Buildings Office.
To reach the growing number of federal employees and people across the country who have come to rely on their mobile devices for information they can access anytime, anywhere, GSA’s OGP developed a mobile phone application to look up the per diem lodging, meals, and incidentals reimbursement rates that GSA sets each year. Having another tool that millions of people can use to access these rates increases the transparency of GSA’s information to the public. GSA OGP chose to create the per diem application as the per diem rates are among the most frequently accessed pages on GSA’s website (estimated at 58%).
The new app allows travelers to look up per diem reimbursement rates for lodging, meals, and incidentals by location or ZIP code. Travelers can look up rates for the Federal government fiscal years 2010 and 2011, with 2012 rates available later this summer. Visit GSA at http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/302273 for more information and download the new app today!
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- Published by Kathleen Turco on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011 under Acquisition,Asset management,Committee,High performance,Identity,Policy,Real property,Regulatory,Strategy,Sustainability,Transportation,Travel,Vision
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.
GSA OGP is proud to have its own Policy Inc blog be selected as one of the 50 must-read federal technology blogs by FedTech Magazine.
