[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: Two more BRAC rounds likely

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon to request 2 new rounds of BRAC

By Kate Brannen and Marcus Weisgerber
Air Force Times
January 25, 2012

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to request, as early as  
tomorrow, two new rounds of military base closures in the United  
States as part of the Pentagon budget-cutting process, according to  
defense sources.

Panetta is scheduled to brief reporters at 2 p.m. ET tomorrow on how  
the Defense Department will begin cutting $487 billion from projected  
spending over the next 10 years to meet the initial spending caps in  
the Budget Control Act.

...

The new requests would seek authorization for the first BRAC in 2013,  
to be followed by another in 2015, one source said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/01/dn-pentagon-to-request-2- 
new-rounds-of-brac-012512/

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Lenny Siegel
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