James to Leave GPO January 3
At the President’s request, Bruce came out of retirement to take office at the GPO in December 2002. Since then, he has worked tirelessly to transform that venerable institution from a printing agency into a 21st century digital information processing facility.
After a period of factfinding and consultation with GPO’s stakeholders, he issued a strategic vision for the GPO’s future that has guided the management of the agency ever since. Under the plan, he initiated the effort to construct a future digital system to organize, manage, and output authenticated Government information in a broad range of online and print formats. He led efforts to modernize the GPO’s plant operations supporting Congress. He assisted the State Department’s development and issuance of the new electronic U.S. passport and has led efforts to further enhance the GPO’s security and intelligent documents operation. He worked with the library community to ensure the continued transition to predominately electronic Federal Depository Library Program and began a pilot project to test the GPO’s ability to digitize retrospective Government publications for online public access. Throughout his tenure, Bruce has ensured that we have the products and services we need to conduct our daily business in Congress.
