Federal / Non-Federal Split
Federal / Non-Federal Split
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Have any of you been in a company that has undergone a federal / non-federal split? The company decides that you can only work on either federal work or non-federal work and splits up buisness groups to service the respective clients? You're not allowed to work at all on "the other side of the fence".
How did that work out for the company? Did you choose the federal side or the non-federal side? How did it affect the company long term?
How did that work out for the company? Did you choose the federal side or the non-federal side? How did it affect the company long term?





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Good on ya,
Goober Dave
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It's driven by the federal accounting standards.
I was wondering if maybe Bechtel or another similar company had already done this. It seems like the large players are very rarely willing to step in a new direction like this unless someone else has already done it.
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I've known defense/aerospace companies that had vaguely similar issues though I'm not sure I recall it being quite so draconian.
What is Engineering anyway: FAQ1088-1484: In layman terms, what is "engineering"?
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I see potential difficulties because of the separation of intellecual capital. We have some industry experts who will be prohibited from working for certain clients.
I'm very interested to see how it plays out. I was hoping to benefit from someone elses experience.
CVG, you're right. It's not directly for the feds, but much transportation money is from federal sources, hence fed lookalike contracts. Same effect in execution though.
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Does that sound like your company?
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I think it's purely a bean counter decision.
It would be very interesting if we're the first to implement this.
There are audit firms which appraise the management of the large engineering companies. The large companies then look at what their competitors are doing and more or less emulate it. The result is that the similar size firms all move in a pack in terms of their pay, management concepts, HR style... At least that's what happens as far as I can tell (from my mid-level position). If we're the first, I would bet that some of the other bigs will follow in the next couple of years.
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