Which federal agency is responsible for 150 million acres of land? The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), a bureau within the Department of the Interior, manages the 150 million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System, which is…
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More Shake-ups at GSA: Acting PBS Commissioner Appointed, Hearings Scheduled
We’ve been wondering since last Monday who would replace Bob Peck as GSA’s commissioner of public buildings, who was fired that day as part of the now infamous “GSA Las Vegas Scandal.” The answer came yesterday…
GSA Las Vegas Round-Up
There has been a tsunami of press this entire stemming from the Las Vegas Conference that led to the resignation of GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and the related firing of GSA’s Public Buildings Commissioner, Bob Peck.…
PTO Proves Teleworking Works
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) employees participating in the agency’s Patent Hoteling Program (PHP)—the agency’s largest telework program—process more patent applications per year than their in-office counterparts and save the agency millions of dollars each…
Shake-up at GSA: Johnson, Peck Out, Tangherlini In
GSA Chief Administrator Martha Johnson resigned today (April 2) and two of her deputies—Public Buildings Service Commissioner Bob Peck and Johnson’s top adviser, Stephen Leeds—were fired, according to White House officials cited in a Washington Post…
GovSpeak: The “CEA”
“CEA” is the abbreviation for “Central Employment Area”. The term has significance in federal leasing dating back to August 16, 1978, when President Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order 12072. The Executive Order included a key provision…
GSA Continues Its Embrace of Telework
During the week of March 5–9, more than 6,400 GSA staffers—about half of the agency’s workforce—didn’t show up at their office. But those workers weren’t sick or slacking off—they were participating in National Telework Week by…
GSA Leads the Way in Shrinking Office Space
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,…
Spotlight: FTC
Which federal agency’s headquarters is housed in a structure whose cornerstone was laid with the same silver trowel that President George Washington used to lay the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol in 1793? Since 1938, the…
An Introduction to the Cotton Annex
Last week, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing in the Cotton Annex, a vacant federal building just south of the National Mall. This hearing was the latest installment of the committee’s “Stop Sitting…