The head of the Technology Transformation Services, Thomas Shedd, wrote in a Thursday email to staff that some employees would be getting an “intention letter” for a reduction in force, or layoff.
The agency’s cross-government tech group has already seen its workforce slashed during the first couple months of the Trump administration, and Shedd previously told staff that the TTS workforce would be halved as GSA writ large is shrunk. Trump’s leadership at the agency is looking to halve the agency’s total budget overall, per reporting by Federal News Network and NPR.
At TTS, probationary employees have already been fired, and the administration has cut the tech consultancy under its purview, 18F, completely. Agency employees have been given until April 18 to accept the second deferred resignation offer GSA issued in late March.
The latest round of layoffs will affect employees in the TTS Office of the Integrated Award Environment and Office of Regulatory and Oversight Systems, as well as parts of the Office of Solutions, including its public experience branch, its platforms and services work, and its front office and accelerators, according to Shedd’s emai ..
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