The FBI’s search for a new headquarters—as well as GSA’s proposal to swap the dated J. Edgar Hoover (JEH) Building for a new FBI campus outside of downtown Washington, D.C.—could be complicated by the House committee…
Author: Kurt Stout
Insight Into the Next Two Years of Federal Leasing
This past week I was treated to two events that provided great insight into what can be expected from the 113th Congress. The first of these was a February 26th Capitol Hill reception hosted by the…
Mica Holds First Hearing of House Subcommittee on Government Operations
As we reported last month, although Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) had to resign as chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee because of term limits set by House Republican leaders, a reorganization of the House…
State Department Campus to Expand in Foggy Bottom
As reported yesterday (Tuesday, February 19) by Dan Sernovitz in the Washington Business Journal, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) is “weighing a significant expansion of its office space in D.C.’s Foggy Bottom neighborhood, where it…
Sequester Stress
With both the House and Senate out of session this week, only four days remain for lawmakers and the White House to agree on a plan to reduce the deficit in order to avert sequestration—the $85…
We’re Now on Pinterest!
We recently discovered Pinterest. The service brands itself as “a tool for collecting and organizing things you love.” Well, we love government real estate so we decided to start our own Pinterest site entitled exactly that:…
DoD Landlords Dodge a Bullet (yet most don’t even know it)
Every once in a while a topic comes along that I really want to write about but can’t seem to get to it. This time that topic is the Department of Defense (DoD) security standards. A…
GovSpeak: “Standoff”
If you begin discussing government facilities security, sooner or later “standoff” will enter the conversation. Standoff, sometimes used synonymously with “setback”, is the term used to describe the distance between a building and the perimeter of…
GAO Report Lists Federal Real Property Management as One of 30 “High-Risk” Areas
Since 1990, the Government Accountability Office has been reporting on federal government operations that it identifies as “high risk” because of their greater vulnerabilities to fraud, waste and mismanagement; its biennial reports aim to help the…
GovSpeak: “The Antideficiency Act”
Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states that “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law….” The Antideficiency Act (ADA), originally enacted in 1884 and most…