federal real property

Individual desks that can be moved to create collaboration spaces in GSA’s new Workplace Innovation Lab at the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy GSA)

GSA gets a refreshed set of recommendations for dealing with real property

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reiterated a list of recommendations to the General Services Agency (GSA) on managing federal real…

Leasing/Property Management

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Rear Adm. John Korka, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), and Chief of Civil Engineers, leads Navy and civilian water quality recovery experts through the tunnels of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Native Hawaiians who revere water in all its forms as the embodiment of a Hawaiian god say the Navy's acknowledgement that jet fuel leaked into Pearl Harbor's tap water has deepened the distrust they feel toward the U.S. military. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Luke McCall/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

2022 spending bill fills holes in DoD’s long-underfunded facility maintenance budgets

DoD Reporter's Notebook

In this Oct. 31, 2018, photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Matt Conn, a loadmaster with the 21st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., directs an Army HMMWV into a C-17 Globemaster III at Ft. Knox, Ky., to assist Department of Homeland Security along the southwest border. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has left no doubt his top priority as leader of the military is making it more “lethal” _ better at war and more prepared for it. And yet, nothing about the military’s new mission at the U.S.-Mexico border advances that goal. (Airman First Class Daniel A. Hernandez/U.S. Air Force via AP)

DoD’s real estate issues no longer a ‘high risk’ area, GAO says

Defense

Agency progress stalls on key high-risk list challenges, GAO says

Agency Oversight

Senators call on White House to fill DHS vacancies

Federal Newscast

With 1 in 4 federal leases soon to expire, GSA taking ‘fresh look’ at smarter, long-term renewals

Leasing/Property Management

President Donald Trump's 2020 budget outline arrives on Capitol Hill at the House Budget Committee, in Washington, Monday morning March 11, 2019. Trump's new budget calls for billions more for his border wall, with steep cuts in domestic programs but increases for military spending. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

IT and federal property: New and used ideas

Tom Temin Commentary

The General Services Administration (GSA) Headquarters building, where the Washington presidential transition offices for US President-elect Donald Trump are located, are seen in Washington, DC, November 21, 2016. / AFP / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

GSA sees ‘huge opportunity’ to drive down leased office space over next 5 years

Agency Oversight

Student loan forgiveness for feds, and other bills worth watching this summer

Congress

GSA eyes Transportation headquarters as poster child for lease purchase initiative

Facilities/Construction

Congress gives DoD big boost for facility upkeep, but not enough to fix deteriorating buildings

DoD Reporter's Notebook

FILE - This Sept. 21, 2017 file photo shows The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building in Washington. The EPA says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the nation's most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

EPA tells Las Vegas employees to relocate, retire or resign

More than 50 Environmental Protection Agency employees based in Las Vegas, Nevada will soon face the decision of relocating across the country, retiring…

Agency Oversight

DoD says it has 19 percent more facilities than it needs, even assuming a larger military

Even assuming an active-duty force that’s significantly larger than the one that exists today, the Pentagon says it has 19 percent more facilities than…

Defense

The U.S. Courthouse Annex in Salt Lake City, Utah, also won a GSA Design Award for architecture. (GSA)

Thinking outside the box: 17 federal buildings with award-winning design

Facilities/Construction

The General Services Administration honored 18 federal building projects at the 2016 Design Awards. Winners were recognized for their commitment to architecture, conservation, engineering and their impacts on the community.