[CPEO-MEF] Army Downsizing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

OEA Plans to Support Communities Coping with Downsizing

Defense Communities 360
June 23, 2015
	
Washington - With more than a dozen communities experiencing downsizing at neighboring military installations over the past several years and further cuts in personnel looming, DOD’s Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) is planning to offer financial assistance and other support to affected communities.

The agency plans to issue an announcement next month in the Federal Register soliciting communities to apply for grants to address personnel reductions - including military and civilian - of at least 2,000 at local installations, OEA Director Patrick O’Brien said Monday during the OEA Town Hall session at the 2015 Defense Communities National Summit. Communities would be eligible if they suffered the cuts over the past three years or are slated to absorb them over the next three years.

…

Since fiscal 2011, though, the population at 13 of those installations has dropped; 12 experienced declines greater than 5 percent and five suffered drops of more than 10 percent. Hardest hit were Fort Knox, Ky., and Fort Sill, Okla. Each suffered a loss in personnel exceeding 20 percent.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.defensecommunities.org/headlines/oea-plans-to-support-communities-coping-with-downsizing/

--

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org




_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org