Power Lunch Series Featuring Angela B. Styles

Angela B. Styles is the former chair and partner of Crowell & Moring. Prior to joining the firm, Angela served in the federal government as Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of Management and Budget at the White House, a position that required confirmation by the United States Senate. Angela also served in the General Services Administration Public Buildings Service in a Senior Executive Service appointment. In these positions, she was responsible for the policies and regulations governing all purchases by the federal government. Angela led presidential initiatives on federal contracting and worked on a wide variety of legal, legislative and policy issues associated with contractor ethics, federal contracts compliance, homeland security, terrorism related indemnification, and labor management relations. Angela also chaired the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, the Federal Acquisition Council, and the Cost Accounting Standards Board.

At Crowell and Moring, Angela's practice concentrated on government contracts counseling and litigation, including procurement ethics and compliance, civil and criminal fraud matters under the False Claims Act, mandatory disclosure, procurement integrity, the Anti-Kickback Act, GSA Schedule contracting with an emphasis on pricing issues, GSA leasing, and Buy American and Trade Agreements Act compliance. In addition, she conducted complex internal investigations, corporate compliance reviews, and training programs on ethics and public sector contract compliance.

Angela's recent representations include significant suspension and debarment matters before the General Services Administration, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Army, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Communications Commission (E-Rate program). She has also litigated several multi-million dollar bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and the Court of Federal Claims as well as contract claims before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals and the Court of Federal Claims and appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

From 2009-2017, Angela led the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct (DII). DII is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 by the largest U.S. defense contractors to self-regulate and commit to sharing a culture of ethics and integrity in the defense industry.

Angela currently serves on the Board of Governors and chairs the Audit Committee for UChicago Argonne, one of the nation’s leading national laboratories.

Angela 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. She has made appearances on news programming for CNN, National Public Radio, and C-SPAN's "Washington Journal."

Angela has testified about complex government contracting issues at more than 30 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.

She worked on Capitol Hill for Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tx) as a legislative aide. Angela also worked for the State of Texas as a program manager in the Office of State-Federal Relations in Washington, D.C.