On Thursday, May 20, 2010, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing entitled, “Running Out of Time: Telecommunications Transition Delays Wasting Millions of Federal Dollars.” The hearing examined the Federal government’s transition to “Networx,” a program that will unify essentially all the major telecommunications, network and information services provided to Federal Agencies. The transition to Networx, however, is substantially behind schedule costing the government millions of dollars for every month the transition is delayed.

The hearing took place at 9:00 a.m. in room 2154 Rayburn House Office Building.

The witnesses scheduled to testify included:

Panel I

Mr. Stephen Kempf
Acting Commissioner, Federal Acquisition Service
U.S. General Services Administration

Mr. Sanjeev Bhagowalia
Chief Information Officer
Office of the Secretary
Department of Interior

Mr. Don Herring
Senior Vice President
AT&T Government Solutions

Ms. Diana L. Gowen
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Qwest Government Services

Mr. Edward C. Morche
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Level 3 Federal

Ms. Susan Zeleniak
Group President
Verizon Federal, Inc.

Mr. Bill White
Vice President, Federal Sales
Spring Nextel Corporation

Documents and Links

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Opening Statement of Chairman Edolphus Towns

Prepared testimony of Mr. Stephen Kempf

Prepared testimony of Mr. Sanjeev Bhagowalia

Prepared testimony of Mr. Don Herring

Prepared testimony of Ms. Diana Gowen

Prepared testimony of Mr. Edward Morche

Prepared testimony of Ms. Susan Zeleniak

Prepared testimony of Mr. Bill White