Installation Management Transformation -- Promise, Impact and Contemporary Challenges.

摘要

The Army's installation management transformation process has been underway for a decade. This paper describes that transformation, its timeline, and its intended purposes. It also evaluates how well the transformation has led to the achievement of stated objectives, and analyzes unresolved and evolving issues in response to continued changes in the strategic environment. Transformation has achieved obvious benefits. However, a historically generous fiscal environment has masked the extent to which the cost of maintaining increased overhead management structure may cancel out those benefits in the future. As the Army moves into an increasingly constrained fiscal environment, IMCOM leaders must flatten organizational overhead; continue to eliminate redundant programs; and pursue aggressive energy, water, and waste management programs to preserve precious fiscal resources. This paper will examine all of these critical challenges facing installation management. Smartly targeted cost savings coupled with business process reforms will allow our Army to continue to fulfill the contract our nation has with the Soldiers, civilians, and families who volunteer to serve.