GSA dials up new telecom services director
The General Services Administration hired an experienced IT official from the Department of Education to fill its vacant telecom services director position.
The General Services Administration filled a key management position to help lead its $50 billion next-generation telecommunications service contract.
Allen Hill will serve as Director of the Office of Telecommunications Services in its Federal Acquisition Service. Hill's current role is deputy director of IT services in the Department of Education CIO office.
Hill starts his new job on Dec. 23, according to a Dec. 13 internal memo obtained by FCW.
Before working at the Education Department, Hill worked as director of Pacific operations at CACI and as a senior technical advisor with Verizon Business, where he worked with the Defense Information System Agency. Hill is also a 20-year veteran of the Air Force.
The telecom services director position provides strategic guidance to the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA on telecommunications and oversees the $50 billion, next-generation Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract. Agency deadlines to transition to the EIS contract were recently extended from 2020 to 2023.
The position has been vacant since April.