3) Lurita Alexis Doan Nominated as New GSA Administrator

Lurita Alexis Doan has been nominated as the next Administrator for the General Services Administration. Her nomination should procede through the Senate for confirmation in the next few months. Doan is the founder and previous owner of New Technology Management, a Virginia surveillance technology company. She sold her stake in the company in 2005. If the Senate approves her confirmation, Doan will replace David Bibb, who has been GSA’s acting administrator since Stephen Perry left the job Oct. 31, 2005.

Ms. Doan will enter GSA with a large workload waiting for her due to GSA’s continual decline in annual revenues. GSA’s income from user fees, or the industrial funding fee (IFF), has been decreasing in recent years, especially in the assisted procurement services arena. The FTS information technology service revenue has fallen from $7.2 billion in 2004 to a projected $4.3 billion for 2006, a 40 percent drop. Its operations are self-funded through the IFF rather than appropriated funds. To offset those losses, GSA will be cutting at least 400 employees, and will be restructuring its business plan.

Doan founded New Technology Management in 1990 and was president and CEO until selling to a group of investors in 2005. The HUBZone company is on GSA Schedule 70 and Millenia Lite. After the 2001 terrorist attacks, New Technology Management’s business grew at a rapid pace. The company quickly became a leading supplier of security and surveillance equipment to the Army, Air Force, the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Department of Homeland Security.