Houston Taylor is Regional Commissioner of the U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Acquisition Service, National Capital Region, where he leads a 60 plus employees in operational acquisitions. Previously, he served as Assistant Commissioner of Federal Acquisition Service, Office of Customer Accounts and Research, where he managed major functional areas of Customer Relationship and Outreach and Customer Research and Data Analytics.

Prior to serving as Assistant Commissioner of Customer Accounts and Research, Mr. Taylor served as Assistant Commissioner of Acquisition Management where he managed major functional areas including Acquisition Career Field Management, Policy Implementation, Socio-Economic Programs, Supplier Management and the Federal Supply Schedules Program.

Mr. Taylor brings more than 30 years of procurement and contract management experience to GSA. He retired from active duty with the U.S. Air Force in 2000. His assignments included tours in Turkey, the United Kingdom, the Air Force Inspection Agency, and Operation Provide Comfort, where he worked as a contingency contracting officer in southern Turkey and northern Iraq. In his final assignment he worked at the Pentagon for the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Air Force as the contracting career field manager. Additional highlights of Mr. Taylor’s extensive government career include service as a contracting professional in the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Postal Service.

Mr. Taylor earned a Masters of Business Administration in Acquisition and a Graduate Certificate in Procurement and Contracts Management. He is also a Level III-Certified Contracting Officer and a Certified Federal Contracts Manager. Mr. Taylor also completed the Senior Executive Fellows program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

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