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The Intersection of Human Capital and Real Property
The current Federal workforce will begin to change over in the next five to seven years. The younger generation of prospective Federal employees has come to expect a different type of work environment than was established for the Boomer and earlier generations.
Real property professionals and human capital experts in the Federal government should begin to work more closely together, if they have not done so yet. The domain expertise each brings to the table can help both. VISTA President and CEO David Baxa offers his perspective.
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Three Questions with Tom Wimer
Tom Wimer is President and CEO of KnowledgeBank, Inc. (www.knowledgebank.cc). He recently spoke with the editors of Managing Change about how the changing nature of the Federal workforce is likely to affect real property inventory. |
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ASIP: Construction Planning and Budgeting, the Army Way
Construction planning and the budgeting of base operations services in the Army depends on the answers to a few key questions. What populations reside on Army Installations now? How are these populations projected to change in the future? That’s why the Army Stationing and Installation Plan (ASIP) was developed.
The relevance and reliability of the ASIP database has been recognized throughout the Army – and it has been used for everything from determining how many sets of body armor to ship to Fort Bragg to determining the proper size of the bowling alley at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. VISTA Project Manager Dan Aloisi explains the ASIP data collection process, and how the system is used.
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Agencies Downgraded in PMA; OMB Sees Its Own Deadline Looming
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) downgraded five agencies on the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) real property initiative in its March 31 2007 quarterly scorecard report. Meanwhile, OMB will itself soon be pressured to perform, as it approaches a Congressionally mandated deadline to identify and value the first 100 federal properties to be disposed of as surplus.
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Realty a La Carte: Understanding GSA’s Value-Added Realty Services
Disposing of assets that no longer fit the federal real property portfolio is an ongoing challenge for Federal landholding agencies. Through award of the Value Added Services (VAS) solutions contract, GSA’s Office of Real Property Disposal has made efficient and valuable realty services available to Federal landholding agencies for which such services are non-core functions. This article, by GSA’s Laura Schroff, explains VAS in greater detail.
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