Facilities/Construction

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

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Policy riders to watch as House appropriators mark up 2025 spending bills

Budget

Democrats warn layoffs ahead as House GOP proposes agency spending cuts

Budget

House appropriators reject GSA’s $3.5B plan for new FBI headquarters

Facilities/Construction

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That office-building boiler will soon be scrap metal

Facilities/Construction

USPS hits pause on some modernization plans

Federal Newscast

How Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate is dealing with its telework-induced high-vacancy offices

Management

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Better federal building upkeep, right-sizing office space key to governmentwide savings, GAO says

Facilities/Construction

Marine Corps needs more agile MILCON process

Defense

Close up of hands typing on laptop. Night work concept.

OMB holding agencies ‘accountable’ for 50% in-office presence

Workforce

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Exclusive

Survey: Back in the office, feds feel mixed on office space functionality

Workforce

NOAA modernizing logistics systems for more streamlined, efficient processes

The modernization efforts will streamline various logistics systems into a single view, while integrating new technologies like barcoding.

IT Modernization

The agency imperative to manage real estate more effectively

The extensive underutilization of federally occupied space highlighted in recent reports from GAO and the Public Buildings Reform Board.

Commentary

Agencies’ headquarters in DC remained ‘nearly empty’ in 2023, real-estate board finds

Facilities/Construction

The Public Buildings Reform Board finds agency headquarters buildings operated at 12% of their estimated capacity, on average, from January-September 2023.