by lhtek | Apr 21, 2016 | Latest News, Uncategorized
The House Armed Services’ Readiness Subcommittee dismisses the Obama administration’s latest request to hold a BRAC round in 2019, according to its portion of the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill. The language in the draft bill released Tuesday stating that,...
by lhtek | Apr 18, 2016 | Latest News, Uncategorized
About one-third of Army and Air Force infrastructure is excess to those services’ needs, according to a broad capacity analysis released by the Defense Department. Overall, 22 percent of the department’s capacity is excess; only 7 percent of the Navy’s infrastructure...
by lhtek | Mar 21, 2016 | Latest News, Uncategorized
21 March 2016 Officials from March Air Reserve Base in Southern California and local authorities are hoping to avoid a potential conflict over a proposed textile plant that would be located in the airfield’s Accident Potential Zone 1. The project still is in the...
by lhtek | Mar 18, 2016 | Latest News, Uncategorized
Congress Fails to Appreciate How the BRAC Ban Is Hurting Communities, Analyst Says Over the past four years, lawmakers have come up with multiple reasons to reject the Pentagon’s request to hold one or more rounds of base closures, but none of them have held up under...
by lhtek | Feb 10, 2016 | Latest News, Uncategorized
Pentagon Renews BRAC Request but Pushes it Back to 2019 In the Obama administration’s last year, the Pentagon has raised the urgency of a new round of base closures, threatening to take unilateral action if lawmakers once again reject its request. “The need to reduce...
by lhtek | Feb 8, 2016 | Latest News, Uncategorized
Remarks by Secretary Carter at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada Secretary of Defense Ash Carter February 4, 2016 http://www.defense.gov/News/News-Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/650577/remarks-by-secretary-carter-at-nellis-air-force-base-nevada# SECRETARY OF DEFENSE...
