Magazine

Government Executive Vol. 37 No.14

August 15, 2005

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

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

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

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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