Military Base Closure: DOD's 2005 Internal Selection Process

摘要

Through the BRAC process, DOD is responding to statutory requirements while attempting to transform the U.S. military services. The Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (as amended) provides the exclusive statutory authority and outlines the process for the 2005 round of base realignment and closure (BRAG 2005) in the United States. This authority expires on April 15,2006. In addition to reducing excess capacity of its bases, the Department of Defense, through BRAC 2005, intends to transform its installation infrastructure to coincide with its other transformation initiatives - changing an organization created to fight the Cold War to one that will provide a military security to the United States for the foreseeable future. The Department of Defense has already taken significant steps in the process to implement BRAC 2005 by preparing three major analytical documents: a list of BRAC selection criteria; a Force Structure Plan ; and a Comprehensive Base Inventory. The Congressional Research Service Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Selection Criteria provide the general guidance from which detailed measures for creating BRAC actions will be drawn. The Force Structure Plan (FSP) assesses the long-term security threats to the United States, and the projects the means necessary to counter them. The Comprehensive Base Inventory describes the 'baseline footprint' of installations that will be affected by BRAC 2005. In assessing the need for a new round of base closures and realignments, DOD projected the force structure that will exist in 2009 and compared it to the much larger force that existed in 1988, the year just prior to the commencement of the first round of base closures. The Department then compared the base inventory existing then with the current inventory.