Arlington, VA
September 14, 2004
RGS Associates Inc., of Arlington Virginia, announced today that it has
been awarded a $1.9 Million contract to support the US Department of
State, Office of Rightsizing which was established in 2004 to
coordinate the President's Management Agenda initiative to "Rightsize"
the US Government's overseas presence.
According to Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State,
"Rightsizing is the process of aligning the number and location of
staff assigned overseas with foreign policy priorities, security and
other considerations. Rather than staff Baghdad in 'business as usual'
fashion, we will build on our on-going regional re-engineering efforts
to minimize Iraq staffing, providing as many support activities as
possible from remote locations. It is our intention that this is the
way we will conduct business there permanently, with the objective of
applying this approach to other posts in the future." Grant S. Green,
Jr., Under Secretary for Management added: "Rationalizing the US
Government's overseas presence is no easy task. We welcome the Office
of Management and Budget's (OMB) decision to include rightsizing as an
initiative in the President's Management Agenda."
Tom McMahon, Vice President of RGS, said: "We are honored to be
selected to assist the Department of State as it transforms its
worldwide business model. Helping the State Department change the way
it staffs overseas posts is a complex change that is well suited to our
core competency of helping Federal agencies change the way they do
business."
About RGS
RGS, headquartered in Arlington
Virginia, is a professional services firm focused on helping Federal
agencies to transform their business operations. For the past 20 years,
RGS has helped government clients solve tough problems by addressing
concurrent changes to an organization's strategy, business practices,
enabling technologies and workforce. This methodology, known as
Integrated Change Management (ICM), sets RGS apart from other
consulting companies in terms of the superior results achieved by our
clients in enterprise change initiatives. Learn more about RGS by
visiting the company's web site at www.rgsinc.com.
