


The board was one of the first agencies to place a task order with the General Services Administration’s Networx program, two sets of multiple-award contracts GSA awarded about a year ago to five network services providers.

railroad workers, administering their retirement and related benefits.There’s nothing bygone, though, about the Chicago-based agency’s plans for a new voice, data and video network. And today, the board still looks after U.S. The nation needed its rail system, so taking care of the industry and its workers became a federal responsibility. Great spinning propellers pulled airplanes across the sky. When the RRB was born, there was no interstate highway system. And indeed, it is a Great Depression creation and a New Deal legacy. The federal Railroad Retirement Board’s name suggests a bygone era.
