Management

Public relations firms take a second look at federal clients

With the economic slowdown hurting prospects for new high-tech and corporate clients, Washington’s public relations firms are turning to a line of business many of them once shunned: contracts from the federal government.

Management

Pentagon to seek single round of base closures

The Bush administration will seek a single round of military base closures in 2003 after a comprehensive review of all Defense Department installations, the Pentagon announced Thursday.

Defense

House panel laments military procurement squeeze

Management

Agencies’ performance reports fall short of expectations

The most recent round of performance reports by federal agencies still don’t provide an adequate picture of how the government is performing, according to Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., ranking member of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee

Defense

Navy workers go on charge card shopping spree

Navy personnel bought $500 worth of Mary Kay cosmetics, $700 in compact discs and a $400 designer briefcase on their government purchase cards last year, officials with the General Accounting Office told Congress Monday.