With more than 56,000 employees—including about 5,700 new jobs that have resulted from BRAC-related movements—Fort George G. Meade is the largest employer in Maryland, the fifth-largest employment center in the state, and has the third-largest workforce…
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The Road to 11/6: Mica Wins Heated Primary Race
Rep. John Mica will surely be back to serve in the 113th Congress. Today he soundly defeated Republican challenger Sandy Adams to win the primary election in Florida’s 7th District. This victory was hard-fought because Mica…
Spotlight: Financial Management Service
Which federal agency oversees a daily cash flow of $89 billion, disbursing more than $1.6 trillion in non-defense payments each year and collecting more than $3 trillion annually—which makes it responsible for administering the world’s largest…
Looking Back on BRAC: Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama
As we’ve reported in numerous postings throughout the past year (click on “BRAC” in the “Categories” to the right), the Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) process has led to the closure of more than 350 military…
The Last Island Prison: McNeil Island, Washington
“Paradise is an island. So is hell,” said German author Judith Schalansky in the introduction to Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will. Today we begin a new…
“Sitting on Our Assets” in Miami
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) took his ongoing “Sitting on Our Assets” campaign to Florida this week (Monday, August 6), holding a hearing at the long-vacant David W. Dyer Federal Building…
MetLife to Buy Constitution Center
As was recently reported in Real Estate Finance and Investment, MetLife is under contract to acquire Constitution Center for what could be the highest total price paid for a building in Washington, DC this year. David…
Spotlight: NASA
In honor of the Mars rover Curiosity’s successful landing on the Red Planet early yesterday morning (Monday, August 6), we’ve decided to take a look at the agency behind that impressive feat: the National Aeronautics and…
GovSpeak: “The Fiscal Cliff”
“Fiscal cliff,” a phrase coined by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, is shorthand for the “many major fiscal events” that could happen simultaneously at the end of this year and in January 2013. Congress faces…
Spotlight: USACE
Which federal agency is the world’s largest public engineering, design and construction management agency? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (also known as USACE or simply “the Corps”) is made up of some 37,000 civilian and…