City-Based Initiative: A Means to 21st Century Installation Readiness

摘要

The readiness of our military and the performance of our military members are directly linked to the health of our defense installations and facilities. The chronic underfunding and subsequent decay of our defense installations infrastructure and facilities has led to their current poor readiness ratings and recapitalization rates. As the Department of Defense (DOD) adjusts to meet the new demands of the Global War on Terrorism new requirements will continue to emerge. Not only will these new requirements demand a greater share of the DOD budget but pressure to halt the continuing increase in the DOD budget will grow. These resourcing challenges will only exacerbate the already existing installation funding shortfalls and lead to an even greater decrease in readiness. In a constrained budget environment such as this DOD must reduce the current and future installation resource requirements to better align with available resources. To significantly reduce installation resource requirements requires a reduction in excess and underutilized installation infrastructure and facilities. This study examines the feasibility of extending public-private sector partnerships such as the Brooks City- Base initiative in San Antonio Texas to other appropriate military installations as a means to rid DOD of excess and underutilized installation infrastructure and facilities.