On February 8th, Congressman Lou Barletta introduced a new bill (H.R. 4487) known as the Public Buildings Reform and Savings Act of 2016. Some aspects of the legislation relate to the Federal Protective Service and economic development partnerships, but in this short summary we will only focus on the contents of the bill that could affect […]
Last week, (Monday, January 21) in his second inaugural address, President Obama highlighted the need to mitigate the growing impacts of climate change, saying “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing the failure…
Grand Junction, Colorado (photo: by Eleaf, CreativeCommons.org) In January 2018, then–Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced a sweeping program to reorganize the department, the largest such reorganization since its founding in 1849. Zinke’s plan involved dividing the United States into thirteen regions, each of which would host the principal offices of agencies such as […]
Anyone involved with government contract administration can attest to the staggering number of online systems used by the government to support vendor-related functions, such as business registration, small business subcontracting, past performance and contracting opportunities. Simply…
Photo: Press TV (www.presstv.ir) The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is accelerating its plans to consolidate mail processing plants, adding dozens of those originally scheduled to be closed in 2014 to the list of facilities already set to be shuttered this year. It made the announcement in a letter it sent last Thursday (March 28) to […]
On June 27th, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee considered and ordered to be reported H.R. 6194, the Real Estate Assets and Leasing (REAL) Reform Act of 2018. The bill is a mostly recycled grab-bag of initiatives aimed at real property reform. If signed into law, some of these changes will be welcomed by government lessors […]
7th Floor Renovated Work Area at GSA Headquarters (Photo: GSA) As we’ve already reported, GSA’s Public Building Service has a long-term goal of improving the way federal agencies use space and downsizing the federal office space footprint. GSA is leading the way in its own Washington, D.C., headquarters, where it is reshaping traditional office floorplans […]
Colliers recently released its U.S. 2021 Investor Sentiment Survey Results, an annual look at the mood of the investor community at the start of the New Year. Not surprisingly, more than half of all investors surveyed stated that they will be looking to invest in industrial properties in 2021 and only 18% expressed interest in […]
Sequestration—originally a legal term referring to an agent of the court taking valuable property into custody to prevent it from being disposed of or abused before a dispute over its ownership can be resolved—has been adapted by Congress in more recent years to describe a new fiscal policy procedure first provided for by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings […]
In 2010, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the fiscal watchdog within the federal government, issued an order requiring that federal agencies consolidate data centers in order to save money and reduce redundancies. Twenty-four agencies,…
The water is rising. So scientists working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently reported. Regardless of one’s point of view about ultimate causes, they note that the eastern and southern coastlines of the United States are increasingly subject to flooding as sea levels rise. On January 30 last year, President Obama issued […]
Current NGA Bethesda Campus At its monthly meeting last week, Thursday, February 2, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) unanimously approved a final master plan for the proposed $300 million Intelligence Community Campus-Bethesda, a federal facility to be located on the site of the former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) headquarters on Sangamore Road, off MacArthur […]
GSA announced this afternoon that it has chosen the Trump Organization as the preferred team to redevelop the historic Old Post Office building. This apparently concludes an effort which has been going on for more than a decade. In December 2000 GSA submitted to Congress a plan for redevelopment of the Old Post Office; and, […]
The federal government is big. That is something about which few people of whatever political stripe would disagree. Excluding members of the armed services (but including Postal Service workers), there are about 2.7 million federal employees—as many people as live in Chicago. Yet, as the Wall Street Journal reports, this is the smallest number since 1966, […]
