In Brief

EXECUTIVE MEMO

IN BRIEF

• Talk to Your Managers. In late June, the Office of Personnel Management issued rules requiring that agencies set up systems to consult with their supervisors and managers. The rules also require agencies to establish "consultative relationships" with management associations.
• Wired for Secrets. President Clinton has named Margo H. Briggs to serve on his National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Briggs is chief executive officer and founder of Executive Security & Engineering Technologies, Inc., a Washington firm. She has been active in the effort to build both the National Information Infrastructure and the Defense Department's information infrastructure.
• Edifice Hex. Federal buildings in downtown Washington are having a run of bad luck. On June 26, 1,200 Treasury Department staffers were forced into the street by a fire in the roof their 19th-century headquarters building next door to the White House. On July 1, 5,500 Transportation Department employees began evacuating the agency's "sick" headquarters building. Transportation's troubles started last October, when employes began reporting nausea, skin rashes, and eye and nose irritation.