Defense Infrastructure: Opportunity to Improve the Timeliness of Future Overseas Planning Reports and Factors Affecting the Master Planning Effort for the Military Buildup on Guam; Congressional rept

摘要

While the fiscal year 2009 overseas master plans generally reflect recent changes in U.S. basing strategies and the challenges DOD faces in their implementation, as well as address most of our prior recommendations, DOD provided the plans to Congress in May 2008, 3 months after the February 2008 budget submission, even though both the Senate and conference reports accompanying the fiscal year 2004 military construction bill require DOD to issue the plans with the military construction budget submission. The master plans contain information on current defense basing strategies and infrastructure requirements overseas and the challenges that DOD faces in implementation of the plans. The plans also generally address our prior recommendations except that the U.S. Pacific Command plan does not provide details of training challenges for the Air Force in South Korea, despite our prior recommendation that it should describe these challenges and their potential effects on infrastructure and funding requirements. DOD officials said that since last year the South Korean government and the U.S. Air Force have taken several steps to address these training challenges. However, DOD has submitted the plans to Congress after the annual budget submissions even though the congressional reporting requirement directed DOD to provide updates of the master plans with each yearly military construction budget submission. According to DOD officials, OSD's most recent efforts to incorporate last- minute changes in basing plans and projects contributed to providing Congress the fiscal year 2009 plans 3 months late.