Defense infrastructure : DOD needs to periodically review support standards and costs at joint bases and better inform Congress of facility sustainment funding uses : report to congressional committees.

The 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommended that the Department of Defense (DOD) establish 12 joint bases by consolidating the management and support of 26 separate installations, potentially saving $2.3 billion over 20 years. In response to a direction from the House Armed...

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Corporate Author:	United States. Government Accountability Office
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]
Subjects:	United States. > Department of Defense > Appropriations and expenditures > Evaluation. Military bases > United States > Costs. Military bases > Maintenance > United States.
Online Access:	https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS113397

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Summary:	The 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommended that the Department of Defense (DOD) establish 12 joint bases by consolidating the management and support of 26 separate installations, potentially saving $2.3 billion over 20 years. In response to a direction from the House Armed Services Committee report accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, GAO evaluated DOD's (1) efforts and expected costs to deliver installation support at joint bases and (2) funding for facility sustainment, which includes the maintenance and repair activities necessary to keep facilities in good working order, at all installations. GAO compared new support standards with the current support levels, visited nine installations that will become four joint bases, and compared facility sustainment funding levels with requirements and goals. GAO recommends that DOD (1) periodically review the newly established installation support standards and joint base administrative costs to help ensure economies and efficiencies and (2) report to Congress on the estimated installation support costs at the joint bases and on facility sustainment funds used for other purposes.
Item Description:	Title from cover screen (viewed on Apr. 21, 2009). "March 2009." "GAO-09-336." Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	ii, 51 pages : digital, PDF file.
Format:	System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Mode of access: World Wide Web from GAO web site. Address as of 4/21/09: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09336.pdf ; current access available via PURL.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.