A recent (March 21) decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a 25-year-old lawsuit against the government found that many federal agencies have been inaccurately reporting the number of unused properties…
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GovSpeak: Chained CPI
Chained CPI is one element of the budget blueprint President Obama released last Wednesday (April 10) that is getting a lot of attention. So what, exactly, is chained CPI? It’s short for “Chained Consumer Price Index…
President Proposes New BRAC Rounds
President Obama has proposed a new round of military base closures and realignments in his FY 2014 budget. That budget contains a $2.4 billion line item calling for two new rounds of the Base Realignment and…
Spotlight: IRS
As procrastinating Americans prepare to file their 2012 federal tax returns by midnight tonight (April 15), we thought this would be a good time to take a look at the agency to which they’ll be sent:…
Award-Winning Census Bureau HQ
As we noted in a recent post, AIA DC (the Washington chapter of the American Institute of Architects) gave the U.S. Bureau of the Census headquarters a 2012 Award of Excellence in Architecture. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill…
Spotlight: U.S. Bureau of the Census
Which federal agency’s headquarters received a 2012 Award of Excellence in Architecture from AIA DC (the Washington chapter of the American Institute of Architects)? Skidmore, Owings & Merrill won the award for its design of the…
USPS Speeds Up Plant Closings
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…
Looking Back on BRAC: Redeveloping the Former Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
From 1909 through mid-2011, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC, originally known as the Walter Reed General Hospital) was the U.S. Army’s flagship medical center. Located on a 110-acre site in Upper Northwest Washington, D.C.,…
Freezing the Federal Footprint
As it noted in a White House blog posting by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Controller Danny Werfel Thursday, the Obama Administration has made disposing of unneeded properties and making more efficient use of the…
FBI HQ Consolidation Hearing
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) held his first hearing as chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management yesterday (Wednesday, March 13). The hearing examined the proposal to…