March 10, 2010: James A. Williams has announced that he plans to retire as the Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on April 3, 2010, according to Federal News Radio and The Washington Business Journal. Williams returned to his FAS post on Jan. 22, 2009, after a stint as GSA Acting Administrator that started on August 30, 2008. Williams, a Virginia native, was involved in the approval process for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new St. Elizabeths Hospital campus in Southeast D.C. During about 30 years with the federal government, Williams was the Director of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program at DHS; and he also previously worked at the Treasury Department's Internal Revenue Service, where he was the Deputy Associate Commissioner for Program Management, Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Procurement, and the Director of Procurement. Earlier in his career, Williams was the Director of the Local Telecommunications Procurement Division at GSA. GSA is an independent federal government agency.
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