With the government contracting climate changing, there is no such thing as business as usual. The federal government’s reduction in budgetary spending and an overall shift in organizational leadership have lead to a historical increase in mergers and acquisitions. Larger businesses are acquiring smaller businesses as a strategy to increase market share and beat the competition...

The Federal government is the single largest enterprise in the United States, consuming energy around the clock in support of citizen services, homeland security, disaster response and American warfighters. Military bases alone have an annual energy bill of $4 billion, supporting over 500 installations in the United States and overseas. That’s nearly 300,000 buildings covering 2.3 billion square feet of building space. Agencies today are...