GSA announces new FAS, TTS leadership
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The new leaders are interested in working with Elon Musk’s DOGE.
Silicon Valley and Tesla alum Thomas Shedd is the newest leader of the Technology Transformation Services at the General Services Administration, the agency announced on Friday.
TTS — charged with creating cross-government tech products and services, as well as helping other agencies with their tech — is situated within GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, which also has a new commissioner in Josh Gruenbaum. He most recently worked at investment firm KKR & Co. FAS is GSA’s business line focused on procurement and acquisition. Shedd has been named its deputy commissioner in addition to being the TTS director.
“The Federal Acquisition Service stands at the heart of the government’s ability to operate effectively. Whether through our work in procurement, fleet management, technology, or charge card programs, we are the enablers of government efficiency,” Gruenbaum said in a statement. “I look forward to aligning closely with DOGE as we work to ensure that taxpayers are receiving necessary and valuable services at the best possible price.”
Shedd, who worked for the last eight years building software for vehicle and battery factories at Tesla, noted in a statement that, “if we work together and execute well, [TTS] will be able to leverage our technical expertise and be a critical part of accelerating technology adoption across agencies to enable rapid gains in efficiency. This is essential to enable the mission of GSA, and accomplish the goals of this new Administration.”
“It’s already clear to me that we have a unique team, with staff that have deep experience in government and others with great experience from the private sector,” he said.
The nod to efficiency — and Elon Musk — both tie in to the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, being run by the billionaire to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” as Trump wrote when he announced the effort last fall.
On his first day, President Trump signed an executive order placing the DOGE in what was formerly the U.S. Digital Service, and now is the United States DOGE Service, with an apparent focus on tech. That order also made some changes to USDS, like creating a “temporary organization” within it that can bring in volunteers.
Shedd and Gruenbaum will both be working with GSA’s Deputy Administrator Stephen Ehikian in his role as acting administrator, who the agency described as a “a serial entrepreneur in the software industry who has successfully built and sold two companies focused on sales and customer service to Salesforce” in an announcement. Most recently, Ehikian was Salesforce’s vice president of AI products.
Trump has yet to announce a nominee for the permanent head of GSA, which also manages government real estate in addition to its work with tech and contracting. But Ehikian has laid out core objectives for the agency in coming years already, including a focus on “reducing dependency on external consultants.”
GSA’s announcement of Ehikian noted that he “will work closely with the DOGE team” on technology adoption throughout government as well as efficiency in government procurement.
GSA also announced on Friday that Russell McGranahan will serve as GSA’s general counsel and that Michael Peters will serve as the commissioner of the Public Building Service.