General Services Administration
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The Office of Personnel Management still has a lot of rebuilding to do. The Trump administration tried to roll its functions into the White House and GSA.
March 24, 2023 -
Nina Albert, the commissioner of the Public Building Service at GSA, said with approximately 50% of GSA’s lease portfolio expiring in the next five years, agencies have some urgency to figure out their office space plans for the future.
March 23, 2023 -
The Biden administration sees a major opportunity to sell office space the federal government no longer needs, now that much of the federal workforce has adapted to working from home.
March 22, 2023 -
If you wonder why federal employees worry, along with everyone else, consider: mini financial crises, a stubbornly bear stock market, no breakthroughs on Social Security solvency, and the debt-ceiling debate dragging out.
March 21, 2023 -
Still annoyed by the Trump administration's relocation of two Agriculture Department bureaus, a senator has introduced legislation to raise the bar for agency moves. It would require agencies to do some homework before they move.
March 17, 2023 -
David Shea, director of the Office of Charge Card Management at the General Services Administration joins host Mark Amtower on this week's Amtower Off Center to discuss the federal SmartPay program.
March 15, 2023 -
Acquisition officials, especially in the Defense Department, worry about why the roster of would-be federal contractors seems to contract every year. Small companies in particular seem to be departing. If could be, the ever-expanding list of rules are driving them away.
March 14, 2023 -
GSA Deputy Administrator Katy Kale said, “This world is getting more digital and online everyday, and we need to make sure the federal government is delivering for people the way that they are used to being delivered to.”
March 13, 2023 -
The Mayor of the District of Columbia recently urged the federal government to get its people back in their offices or give up millions of square feet. The city has ambitious economic goals that could, in its view, make better use of the space.
March 09, 2023 -
Washington D.C.’s commercial real estate industry is also wondering whether feds will return to workThe ongoing question of whether federal employees with offices in the District of Columbia will return four or five days a week, is not just a matter of restaurants and retail stores. The commercial real estate industry, which houses all of these elements, is also looking at a cloudy crystal ball.
March 09, 2023 -
Maryland lawmakers are making one final pitch to the Biden administration to bring the FBI’s new headquarters to their state. The Maryland delegation met with officials from the General Services Administration on Wednesday, before a final decision is made on a new headquarters for the FBI.
March 08, 2023 -
For the third time since 2014, the GSA inspector general found TTS lacked organization control leading, this time, to lies to agency customers and the Technology Modernization Fund board, finger pointing among political appointed and senior executives and $10 million in charges for services that didn’t live up to their billing.
March 07, 2023 -
During this webinar, you will learn how federal IT practitioners from the General Services Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Homeland Security, NetApp U.S. Public Sector, Pure Storage and Verizon are implementing strategies and initiatives around data center and cloud optimization.
March 06, 2023 -
The departments of Agriculture, Labor, State and Veterans Affairs reported that 50% or less of their public-facing websites comply with Section 508 accessibility requirements.
March 02, 2023 -
If the General Services Administration is at the heart of much of federal procurement, Federal Drive host Tom Temin's guest for this interview is at the center of the GSA. Jeffrey Koses is GSA's Senior Procurement Executive and Chairman of the U.S. AbilityOne Commission.
March 01, 2023