GSA at 60 Timeline

1950s and 1960s

• GSA took on the major task of renovating the White House.
• GSA starts the first federal government motor pool.
• GSA created the Federal Telecommunications System, a government-wide inter-city telephone system.
• GSA constructed many of the office buildings that now line Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C. as recommended by the Ad Hoc Committee on Federal Office Space for a new building program to address obsolete office buildings.

1970s and 1980s

• The Federal Buildings Fund became operational when GSA issued its first rent bills to federal agencies.
• GSA introduced the federal government to the charge card, now used by over two million government employees today.
• The first GSA child care center opens. The program has grown to 112 centers for more than 8,000 children nationwide.

1990s and beyond

• GSA formed the Courthouse Management Group to manage the largest courthouse construction projects in 50 years, resulting in the renovation of federal courthouses across the country.
• GSA launched FirstGov.gov. Now called USA.gov or GobiernoUSA.gov it provides citizens access to more than 180 million pages of online federal, state, local and tribal government information.
• Established the Office of Emergency Response and Recovery to better assist the country during national disasters.
• The Federal Acquisition Service is created with the merger of the Federal Technology Service and Federal Supply Service.
• As GSA enters the 2010s, GSA is managing its Recovery Act funding and continuing to serve the American taxpayer.