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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While the department doesn’t provide direct medical services on-site, DC Health does focus on making federal dollars work for city residents, funding nonprofits and community groups working with people who need public health resources.

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Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer

Google Public Sector

All of this was done through a CRADA, or Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, a common framework for research collaboration between government agencies and companies. Samples from the AFIP were instrumental in solving many public health challenges, like sequencing the genome of the 1918 influenza virus.