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Traffic moves over the George Washington Bridge as seen from Fort Lee, N.J., Tuesday, April 6, 2021. President Joe Biden is setting about convincing America it needs his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, deputizing a five-member

Infrastructure is ready for America, but is America ready for infrastructure?

Recently the American Society of Civil Engineers confirmed that the nation’s infrastructure could stand some rebuilding. For more, Federal Drive turned…

Facilities/Construction

Time for feds to get back to the office

Tom Temin Commentary

OMB blocks sale of National Archives facility listed as underutilized, citing tribal records

Facilities/Construction

Biden to nominate another Missouri native to lead GSA

People

That proposed infrastructure bill has a little something for everybody, including your agency

Congress

NASA expands the ways people can experience one of its major facilities virtually

Facilities/Construction

What does the White House’s infrastructure plan mean for federal agencies?

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Bicyclists ride past an inner perimeter of security fencing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2021, after portions of an outer perimeter of fencing were removed overnight to allow public access. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Will it ever be time for federal employees to return to their regular offices?

Congress

In this Feb. 5, 2016, photo, a mail clerk at the Wynne Unit of the Texas prison system makes her way through a box of letters for inmates in Huntsville, Texas. Every piece of mail is checked for contraband, like drugs hidden under stamps, or messages or words in correspondence that suggest violence or escape plans, as well as attempts by convicts to profit from some enterprise or business while behind bars. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

A USPS of the Woolworths era tries to compete in the age of Amazon

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More soldiers managed their own moves in 2020 as reimbursement rates rose

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FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2017, file photo, traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington streaks past the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters building. The FBI has been shaken by a series of sexual misconduct cases involving senior leadership over the past few years, including two new claims brought in December 2020 by women who say they were sexually assaulted by supervisors. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Building Back Greener: Does federal government still need as much space post-COVID?

Green Buildings

This Nov. 5, 2009 file photo shows the entrance to Fort Hood Army Base in Fort Hood, Texas, near Killeen, Texas. As much as President Donald Trump enjoys talking about winning and winners, the Confederate generals he vows will not have their names removed from U.S. military bases were not only on the losing side of rebellion against the United States, some weren't even considered good generals. Or even good men. The 10 generals include some who made costly battlefield blunders; others mistreated captured Union soldiers, some were slaveholders, and one was linked to the Ku Klux Klan after the war. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Army may add hundreds of civilian investigators to address problems highlighted by Fort Hood review

The Army’s senior leadership has yet to make a final decision on how to reform the service’s Criminal Investigation Command, but an internal review identified…

Army

Wireless soil-moisture sensors were tested by GPG on 1.1 acres of landscape at the Young Federal Building in Orlando, FL.

Building back greener: New federal leases, new sustainability opportunities

In part 2 of the special report, the federal government’s efforts to be more environmentally sustainable over the past two decades are not without success….

Green Buildings

Building back greener: GSA has prime opportunity to lead federal climate change initiative

Green Buildings

President Joe Biden wants the public sector to be an example for environmental sustainability. One of the biggest ways to reduce the U.S.’s carbon footprint is with real estate, as examined in this three-part special report.

Infrastructure is ready for America, but is America ready for infrastructure?

Time for feds to get back to the office

OMB blocks sale of National Archives facility listed as underutilized, citing tribal records

Biden to nominate another Missouri native to lead GSA

That proposed infrastructure bill has a little something for everybody, including your agency

NASA expands the ways people can experience one of its major facilities virtually

What does the White House’s infrastructure plan mean for federal agencies?

Will it ever be time for federal employees to return to their regular offices?

A USPS of the Woolworths era tries to compete in the age of Amazon

More soldiers managed their own moves in 2020 as reimbursement rates rose

Building Back Greener: Does federal government still need as much space post-COVID?

Army may add hundreds of civilian investigators to address problems highlighted by Fort Hood review

Building back greener: New federal leases, new sustainability opportunities

Building back greener: GSA has prime opportunity to lead federal climate change initiative

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