Government Executive Vol. 37 No.14

FEATURES

• Big Buyers
  Chief acquisition officers and procurement executives are fighting for staff, allying with program managers and struggling to define themselves.
  By Amelia Gruber and Kimberly Palmer

• Top 200

• OVERVIEW

  Guarded Growth
  Top 200 Federal Contractors

• DEFENSE

  Big Budget, Bad News
  By James Kitfield
  Top 100 Defense Contractors

• CIVILIAN

  Wary of the Watchdog
  By Amelia Gruber
  Top 100 Civilian Agency Contractors

• TECHNOLOGY

  Wired for War
  By Shane Harris
  Top 50 Technology Contractors

• TRAVEL

  Frequent Fliers
  By Katherine McIntire Peters
  Top Travel Vendors
  Top Traveling Agencies

• ARMY

  Eyes on the Army
  By James Kitfield
  Top 25 Army Contractors

• AIR FORCE

  Losing Altitude
  By James Kitfield
  Top 25 Air Force Contractors

• NAVY

  Caught in the Undertow
  By James Kitfield
  Top 25 Navy Contractors

• ENERGY

  New Energy
  By Beth Dickey
  Top 25 Energy Department Contractors

• NASA

  Shooting the Moon
  By Beth Dickey
  Top 25 NASA Contractors

NEWS+ANALYSIS

• Easy Come, Easy Go
  The meteoric rise and fall of defense contractor MZM is a lesson for feds. By Katherine McIntire Peters
• Cosmic Contests
  NASA offers prize money to build a space elevator and more out-of-this-world inventions. By Beth Dickey
• Consultantspeak
  The murky, maddening world of management lingo. By Shane Harris

ADVICE+DISSENT

• Managing Technology

  Dialed In
  Voice over IP phone service is slowly gaining converts. By Karen D. Schwartz

• Management Matters

  At All Costs
  Blind devotion to the mission can let the ends run away with the means. By Brian Friel

• Viewpoint

  Procurement Proper
  It's time to think about what motivates people to do the right thing. By Steven L. Schooner

IN EVERY ISSUE

• Editor's Notebook
  Procurement's problem is not ethics, but rather the ambitions of the weapons buyers.
• Letters
• The Buzz
  Big labor, washing your hands, redoing homeland security and the hot seat.
• Outlook
  Federal buying is a whole different world than it was 15 years ago. By Tom Shoop

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