by lhtek | Oct 27, 2016 | Latest News, Uncategorized
BRAC has always been a hard sell, a point borne out by the Obama administration’s failure to persuade lawmakers to authorize one or more base closure rounds over the past five years. Maybe if the Pentagon were to broaden the aims of the BRAC process from simply...
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 | 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 | Jan 4, 2016 | Latest News, Uncategorized
Like many other states fearful of losing economic-lifeblood military bases, Mississippi has been spending millions of dollars of state and local money to enhance the federal facilities and their surroundings. With bases employing more than 30,000 people and generating...