GSA's capabilities to support NSEP telecommunications

The numerous essential as well as operational services that the US General Services Administration (GSA) can provide to all NSEP (National Security Emergency Preparedness) users during peacetime and wartime stress conditions are described. The Office of FTS2000 manages the program that provides long-distance telecommunications services to government locations throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands. The Information Resources Management Service manages consolidated local telecommunications services, the Purchases of Telecommunications Services program, the Delegation of Procurement Authority process for agencies to use in acquiring telecommunications services, and the worldwide Federal Secure Telephone Service.<
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