[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE: "Army spends $500 million per year on vacant facilities"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army spends $500 million per year on vacant facilities


Jared Serbu
Federal News Radio
Marcvh 31, 2014


The Army says its early analyses of its excess base infrastructure show it is wasting at least a half billion dollars per year on facilities it no longer uses nor needs. And that figure that is certain to climb as the service gets smaller in the coming years.

Over the course of several consecutive annual budget submissions, the Defense Department has put front-and-center its need to reduce its excess infrastructure through another round of base realignments and closures.

Lawmakers hostile to BRAC placed language in prior years' Defense authorization bills that banned DoD from even studying or planning for a potential infrastructure consolidation, leaving the department short on data to make its case.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/396/3593228/Army-spends-500-million-per-year-on-vacant-facilities-

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Lenny Siegel
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