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    Making access to AI a priority

    | GSA Blog Team
    Keeping up with emerging tech is no easy feat, especially with artificial intelligence increasing in our daily lives. From automated assistants to self-driving cars, AI has made significant impacts on how we live and in our daily routines.

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  • Once you get here, you might not leave, says GSA intern

    | GSA Blog Team

    LaKeya Hayden was in graduate school at Bowie State University, teaching fourth graders spelling and grammar, when a classmate told her about internships at GSA.

    “Back then, I had no idea what GSA did,” she said. “I thought, ‘Let me give it a shot because I know I can always go back to teaching.’”

    She enjoyed her interview, she said, and liked the questions she was asked and information given about GSA. And, she appreciated GSA’s flexibility to let her finish her master’s degree in human resource development while interning.

  • GSA seeks more faculty, college students to participate in government challenges

    | GSA Blog Team
    GSA’s Challenge.Gov is sponsoring a crowdsourcing campaign – ReachU Challenge – to attract more people from academia to funding and prize competitions that foster innovation in the federal government.
  • GSA IT receives award for excellence in sustainable procurement of IT products

    | GSA Blog Team
    For the seventh year in a row, GSA IT won a national award recognizing organizations that buy and sell sustainable and environmentally friendly electronic products.The Global Electronics Council gives
  • Podcasting? GSA Does That!

    | GSA Blog Team

    GSA is a complex agency.

    In its 74 years of doing business, GSA is often thought of as the federal government’s landlord, or the place where traveling government employees check how much hotel rooms cost.

  • Florida courthouse named for judge who broke racial barriers

    | GSA Blog Team

    When Joseph Woodrow Hatchett took the Florida Bar Exam in 1959, he could not stay in the hotel where the test was being administered because of Jim Crow laws still in effect.

    Nearly 63 years later, lawmakers passed a 2022 law clearing the way for GSA to display Justice Hatchett’s name on the U.S. Courthouse Annex in Tallahassee, Florida.

  • The buzz around bees: Looking back, and ahead, to the health of pollinators at GSA

    | GSA Blog Team
    Federal buildings are a hive of activity. And it’s not just on the inside.GSA is helping pollinators – mostly bees and butterflies – find a good home. That can mean on the ground or on the roof, where
  • GSA makes electrifying move at Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

    | GSA Blog Team
    The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in the nation’s capital is a palace among federal buildings. It holds more than 3 million square feet of office space –  making it second only
  • GSA reflects on Juneteenth amid continued equity push for Black communities

    | GSA Blog Team
    Although Juneteenth National Independence Day is the newest federal holiday—signed into law in 2021–it has been celebrated for more than 150 years. Juneteenth, or June 19, is the oldest known celebrat
  • Flag Day & the Symbolism of Flags

    | GSA Blog Team
    While not a federal holiday, Flag Day has been celebrated nationally on June 14 since  President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it a national observance in 1916. The U.S. flag has undergone several iterati
  • GSA’s 10x program launches 15 new good-for-people technology projects

    | 10X Team
    What if an idea could change how the government works for the public? Uses technology? Delivers services? Processes data? Advances equity? 10x — a program within GSA’s Technology Transformation Servic