GSA Adds Tech Office

The General Services Administration is redesigning its Office of Citizen Services and Communications, the division responsible for the agency's public-facing websites and information, to include a technology-focused office.

The General Services Administration is redesigning its Office of Citizen Services and Communications, the division responsible for the agency's public-facing websites and information, to include a technology-focused office.

The new Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies will be responsible for identifying new tech strategies to improve service. Dave McClure will remain associate administrator, and Sanjeev Bhagowalia, currently the chief information officer at the Interior Department, will start as deputy associate administrator for innovative technology on Monday.

The Office of Communications and Marketing will split off from the new OCSIT.

"The exciting thing is leveraging technology across government," said GSA spokeswoman Caren Auchman. "It will help us focus that and advance our responsibility to transparency and open government."