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April 2021 Welcome

Letter from Sagar Samant to the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS)

Our organization is more than one year into its modernization and transformation journey. With ever-increasing momentum, we remain focused on continuous improvements and achieving our goals to transform critical IT Services supporting FAS and the entire GSA organization.

Throughout our journey, we will continue to take necessary measures to ensure our success. Recently, we streamlined our organization to more effectively align our resources to achieve our transformation, business relationship management, and O&M support services. At the same time, we have accelerated our efforts to deliver shared services, such as cloud-driven modernization and integration offerings. Visit the FAS-IT FY20/21 Review for a look back at FY20 and a look at FY21.

Foundational to this growth, the FAS-IT Playbook continually matures to serve as your go-to source for relevant guidance, standards, delivery models, and newly announced IT services. This living resource serves our customers as they realize efficiencies through adoption of streamlined guidance, purpose-driven templates, compliance to policies, and a solid understanding of business and IT alignment across FAS.

The IT Playbook will support your strategy development and on-ramp to the FCS ecosystem of services and capabilities in both the operational and development spaces. This is the foundation to how FAS-IT provides structure to the systems that we are entrusted with in the form of sound design patterns, standard practices, re-use frameworks, and a tried-and-true set of common capabilities.

We must remain aware that the cloud is a developing and changing target, therefore we must recognize the need to change with it as it matures. It will be very common for you to participate in the Cloud Enablement process to develop "road-map" architectures as part of your cloud strategy that will anticipate changes over time, giving the business and IT a chance to plan for the future. We appreciate the trust that you exhibit by developing and running your systems within the FCS ecosystem. It is my goal to clear the way and make the cloud a great experience for everyone.

Finally, throughout FY21, stay tuned for our quarterly Technology Forums, where we will introduce new FAS-IT Playbook resources, share our success stories, and invite you to participate in focused discussions about business-driven services provided by FAS-IT.

Best Regards,

Sagar Samant

Associate Chief Information Officer, FAS-IT