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September 15, 2005: BRAC Commission legislation, signed by the president of the United States becomes law on November 8, 2005. BRAC actions must commence within one year and be completed within six years, not later than September 15, 2011.

January 24, 2006: Governor Easley invites community and state leaders and hosts initial meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, resulting in formation of the BRAC Regional Task Force.

January, 2006: Stand-up of 4th Brigade Combat Team (BCT) as part of the 82nd Airborne.

September 13-14, 2006: Relocation Fair held at U.S. Army Forces Command Headquarters and U.S. Army Reserve Center Headquarters at Ft. McPherson, Georgia. Representatives from eight of the 11 BRAC RTF counties attended with representatives from Picerne Military Housing, North Carolina Military Business Center, and the North Carolina Dept. of Commerce.

October 4, 2006: BRAC RTF Receives $1.16 million-dollar grant through the Mid-Carolina Council of Governments from the Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment to fund the Task Force's growth management planning around the Ft. Bragg and Pope Air Force Base Area.

January 2006 through 2011: Army Transformation; unit activations/inactivations and stationing changes; construct FORSCOM/USARC Headquarters facility; construct Joint Deployment/Mobility facility. Transfer Pope AFB to Ft. Bragg (2,559 AF personnel become tenants on Ft. Bragg). 

Early 2008: 43rd Airlift Wing stands-down. 23rd Fighter Group departs for Moody AFB. 440th Air Reserve Component Wing stands up.  Active duty Air Operations Group is formed. 

Mid-2008: Advance team from FORSCOM Headquarters arrives. Phased moves of FORSCOM/USARC personnel from 2008 to 2011.

Summer 2010: 7th Special Forces Group departs for Eglin AFB.

What is BRAC?
“BRAC” is an acronym that stands for Base Realignment and Closure.  It is the congressionally authorized process the Department of Defense (DoD) has previously used to reorganize its base structure to more efficiently and effectively support our forces, increase operational readiness and facilitate new ways of doing business.  (The original legislation actually states that the title of the process is Base Closure and Realignment.) 

What are some of the major elements of the BRAC 2005 process and what will ensure it will be fair?
The process began with a threat assessment of the future national security environment, followed by the development of a force structure plan and basing requirements to meet these threats.  DoD then applied legally mandated selection criteria to determine which installations to recommend for realignment and closure.  The Secretary of Defense will publish a report containing his realignment and closure recommendations, forwarding supporting documentation to the independent commission. 

What is transformation?
According to the Department’s April 2003 Transformation Planning Guidance document, transformation is "a process that shapes the changing nature of military competition and cooperation through new combinations of concepts, capabilities, people and organizations that exploit our nation's advantages and protect against our asymmetric vulnerabilities to sustain our strategic position, which helps underpin peace and stability in the world."

Why is DoD transforming?
Over time, the defense strategy calls for the transformation of the U.S. Defense establishment. Transformation is at the heart of this strategy.  To transform DoD, we need to change its culture in many important areas.  Our budgeting, acquisition, personnel and management systems must be able to operate in a world that changes rapidly.  Without change, the current defense program will only become more expensive in the future and DoD will forfeit many of the opportunities available today.

How is BRAC transformational?
BRAC provides a singular opportunity to reshape our infrastructure to optimize military readiness.  The 2005 BRAC process will help find innovative ways to consolidate, realign or find alternative uses for current facilities to ensure that the U.S. continues to field the best-prepared and best-equipped military in the world.  BRAC 2005 will also enable the U.S. military to better match facilities to forces, meet the threats and challenges of a new century and make the wisest use of limited defense dollars.

What benefit does the Department anticipate from a future BRAC round?
The Department will be able to divest itself of unnecessary installation infrastructure and use the resultant savings for improving fighting capabilities and quality of life for military forces. This will allow the Department to rationalize installation infrastructure with 21st century national security imperatives. 

How will BRAC 2005 be different from past rounds?
BRAC 2005 is dramatically different from previous rounds. Because we are on our fifth round of BRAC, the nature of the excess capacity has changed. Most of the excess capacity today is more fragmented and often in the form of underused facilities.  This suggests that savings can be achieved by sharing facilities to a greater extent.  Excess capacity is defined as underused or unused facilities and/or infrastructure. Today, greater emphasis is being placed on reshaping the Department as opposed to simple cost cutting.  There also is greater emphasis on jointness--selecting the appropriate organizations from two or more services to share facilities in the right location can significantly improve combat effectiveness while reducing costs.  It also generates a more powerful military through appropriate basing.  Jointness at every level will play a much greater role in this round of BRAC.

Why do we need a BRAC round?
The Department’s position that significant excess capacity remains in the defense infrastructure is supported by independent agencies. The specific level of excess is very dependent on the assumptions used in the analysis. Past experience indicates that more extensive study of joint basing use and cross-service functional analysis could further increase the level of excess through better utilization of the remaining infrastructure.

The Department estimates that a future BRAC round, based on the costs and savings experiences of BRACs 93/95 and a reduction in installation infrastructure of approximately 20 percent, could generate approximately $7 billion of annual recurring savings in today’s dollars. Resources currently being spent on excess installation infrastructure could be allocated to higher priority requirements, such as efforts to modernize weapons, enhance quality of life, and improve readiness.

Additionally, another BRAC round will afford the Department a significant transformation opportunity. September 11, 2001, reinforced the imperative to convert excess capacity into warfighting ability. The performance of our forces in Iraq underscores the benefit of transformational war fighting. The Department must be allowed to reconfigure its infrastructure to best support the transformation of our warfighting capability. The Department must be allowed the opportunity to assess its installation infrastructure to ensure it is best sized and placed to support emerging mission requirements for our national security needs.

Why would we close U.S. installations before we close overseas installations?
BRAC, of course, only applies to our military facilities in the United States.  As we transform the Department, we didn't think it made much sense to look just at our domestic facilities so we coupled the BRAC process with our Global Force Posture Review, which in essence is a BRAC process for our internationally-based forces.  The result is the relocation of troops to the United States from abroad and several other related changes made domestically to ensure unit cohesion, as well as realignment for the 21st century.  (Dollar amounts will be available when the secretary's recommendations are announced.)

How much has been saved through previous BRAC rounds?
The four previous BRAC rounds have eliminated approximately 20 percent of DoD's capacity that existed in 1988 and, through 2001, produced net savings of approximately $17.7 billion, which includes the cost of environmental cleanup.  Recurring savings beyond 2001 are approximately $7 billion annually.  In independent studies conducted over previous years, both the Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office have consistently supported the department's view that realigning and closing unneeded military installations produces savings that far exceed costs.

Will communities or states that were impacted by past base closures be protected in future base closure rounds? Would their past losses be calculated in determining "cumulative economic impact?"
The Department must consider all military installations equally, without regard to whether the installation has been previously considered or proposed for closure or realignment. Additionally, the Department will adhere to the statutory requirements regarding the selection criteria that will be used in the BRAC process, of which military value is the primary consideration. In doing so, the Department will consider "the economic impact on existing communities in the vicinity of military installations." Application and evaluation of economic impacts will be consistently and fairly applied.

How have local communities affected by installation closures fared overall?
Base Realignments and Closures cause near-term social and economic disruption.  However, there are many success stories from previous closures. A base closure can actually be an economic opportunity, especially when all elements of a community work together.  While each closure or realignment has different consequences and/or results, some recent examples include:

1. Charleston Naval Base, S.C. - The local community, assisted by DoD, was able to create approximately 4,500 new jobs.  Approximately 90 private, state and federal entities are currently reusing the former naval base.
 

2. Pease Air Force Base, N.H. -  More than 185 operating tenants currently established at the Pease International Tradeport (PIT).  The PIT has been designated a Foreign Free Trade Zone by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and has developed an air cargo access capability via an 11,300-foot runway.  There is in excess of 3,800,000 square feet of new, or newly renovated space, that has supported the creation of over 5,000 jobs, in bio technology (Lonza Biotechnics), education (Southern New Hampshire University), in addition to a wide variety (Pan Am, Marriott, Redhook Brewery) of retail and professional service availability day-to-day.


3. Fort Devens, Mass. - More than 3,000 new jobs have been generated and 2.7 million square feet of new construction has occurred. With 68 different employers on site, redevelopment ranges from small business incubators to the Gillette Corp., which occupies a large warehouse/distribution center and manufacturing plant. 

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