With the title of interim city manager, Mr. Porter drafted requests for proposals and fielded calls here, often from people who imagined him in charge of a small battalion of employees.
Another firm, Investment Counseling Inc., prepared a draft request for proposals to circulate on Wall Street.
A revised draft request for proposals has been issued to build 179 aerial refueling tankers meant to replace the Air Force's fleet that dates to the 1950s.
Dana White, the Pentagon spokeswoman, said this week that the JEDI contract had drawn "incredible interest" and more than 1,000 responses to a draft request for proposals.
Last week, Nasa issued a draft request for a proposal encouraging the US commercial space industry to help it deliver payloads to the moon.
"The current draft request for proposals is not a tanker modernization program, it is just a replacement program" for the existing fleet of Eisenhower-era U.S. tankers, Mr. O'Keefe told journalists.
Instead, the air force issued a new draft Request for Proposals (RFP) last September that in effect nullified the KC-45's advantages that it can deliver more fuel to front-line aircraft and evacuate more troops.
Once Northrop and Airbus had a chance to study the draft request for proposals, they concluded that the proposed criteria all but guaranteed a Boeing victory, and they threatened to pull out.
The draft request for military spending proposes to buy more unmanned surveillance drones and high-technology reconnaissance aircraft, to enhance defenses for troops against chemical and biological weapons, and to speed the conversion of two Trident nuclear submarines to carry cruise missiles.
NASA released a draft request for proposals under a new Commerical Lunar Payload Services program on Friday.
The meeting will review the general plan update process, the schedule of the update and a draft request for consultant services.
