Prince George’s County leaders and their Congressional representatives have long complained that they have been spurned by the GSA. As evidence, they point to a 2007 University of Maryland report, which determined that the County is…
Month: September 2012
Spotlight: Indian Health Service
As we mentioned in an earlier piece,we’re focusing on two federal agencies that serve Native Americans this week, in honor of Native American Day. The Indian Health Service (IHS), which is part of the U.S. Department…
Spotlight: Bureau of Indian Affairs
In honor of Native American Day (a state holiday that will be observed in California and Tennessee tomorrow, September 28, and in South Dakota on October 8), we’re focusing this week on two federal agencies that…
Looking Back on BRAC: Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Occupying more than 251 square miles and covering parts of four counties (Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke and Moore) in southeastern North Carolina, Fort Bragg is one of the largest military complexes in the world. Recent BRAC-related construction…
GAO Urges More Collocation, Strategic Partnerships
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently recommended that federal property-owning agencies work together and with other agencies to coordinate their space needs, in order to identify ways in which they can share space (collocate), which…
Sequestration Report a Non-Event?
The Obama administration’s “OMB Report Pursuant to the Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012,” released last Friday (September 14, 2012), outlines the “devastating” and “deeply destructive” impacts on virtually all aspects of the federal budget that will take…
Should Property Investors be Concerned with U.S. Credit?
Earlier this week we wrote that Moodys had announced that it is considering a downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt, this following a similar downgrade by Standard & Poor’s last year. At that time, as now, federal…
More Trouble with U.S. Credit
It was widely reported yesterday (Tuesday, September 11) that the United States is in danger of another credit downgrade, this time by Moodys. In its press release the credit rating agency said that it would likely…
Spotlight: NIH
Which federal agency began in 1887 as the one-room “Laboratory of Hygiene” and has since grown to encompass 27 separate institutes and centers that occupy almost 16 million gross square feet of government-owned space and nearly…
Understanding the Federal Employment Trend
At last week’s Republican Convention the GOP platform was unveiled revealing the party’s plan to reduce the federal payroll by 10%, an effort we expect would be largely implemented through workforce reductions. This is nothing new.…