Angela B. Styles is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Government Contracts Group. Her practice is concentrated in the area of federal procurement law and litigation. Ms. Styles has represented contractors before the United States Court of Federal Claims and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Most recently, Ms. Styles served in two key procurement positions in the Bush Administration. Ms. Styles received her initial appointment to the General Services Administration in January 2001, holding this position until her appointment and confirmation by the United States Senate as Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) at the White House. In these positions, Ms. Styles was responsible for the policies and regulations governing $240 billion a year in purchases by the federal government and led presidential initiatives on public-private competition, contract bundling, small business procurement, and purchase card reform. Ms. Styles worked on a wide variety of legal, legislative and policy issues associated with homeland security, terrorism related indemnification, labor management relations, and performance-based service contracting. Ms. Styles also chaired the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, the Federal Acquisition Council, and the Cost Accounting Standards Board.

Ms. Styles has provided legal and policy commentary for numerous national media outlets, including the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Ms. Styles has made appearances on news programming for CNN, National Public Radio, and C-SPAN Washington Journal.

Ms. Styles has testified about complex government contracting issues at more than 20 hearings before the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. She has testified on numerous occasions before the Senate Armed Services, Senate Government Affairs, House Armed Services, House Veterans’ Affairs, House Small Business, and House Government Reform Committees.

For her efforts on behalf of minority and women owned small businesses in the federal procurement process, Ms. Styles recently received the 2003 Small Business Administration Leadership Award and the 2003 Women Impacting Public Policy Leadership Award.

Education
University of Virginia, B.A., 1990
University of Texas Law School, J.D., 1994

Affiliations
Admitted to practice: District of Columbia, Texas

Publications
"The Department of Justice’s Call for Integrity: Will Federal Contractors Answer?," BNA's Federal Contracts Report, Vol. 89, No. 5 (February 5, 2008). Author: Angela B. Styles.