Elected officials shouldn’t take anything for granted when it comes to preparing for the next round of base closures, Anthony Principi, chairman of th...
The local group supporting Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., would lose most of its funding under the 2017 budget proposed by Rapid City Mayor Steve All...
With the looming possibility of base closures or another form of downsizing, defense communities are paying more attention to the quality of their pub...
A 15-member study committee formed by the Georgia House to help the state’s defense communities prepare for a future BRAC round met Wednesday in Warne...
The Small Business Administration (SBA) last week issued a final rule implementing changes to the HUBZone program enacted in the fiscal 2016 defense a...
Since the Obama administration first proposed holding new rounds of base closure four years ago, Navy leaders have consistently supported the proposal...
An editorial in the Belleville News-Democrat laments the stark possibility that Scott Air Force Base, Ill., could be shuttered in a future BRAC round....
PuebloPlex, the local redevelopment authority for the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colo., is soliciting proposals for a range of services needed to carry ou...
The new Executive Director of the 21st Century Partnership says Robins Air Force Base is in a good place. However, Daniel Penny says the Partnership h...
The incoming executive director of the 21st Century Partnership says his most important task will be preparing Robins Air Force Base for the next roun...
With the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week, a number of experts in military base redevelopment have recommended lawmakers atten...
Leaders in San Angelo, Texas, and Goodfellow Air Force Base are confident a $2.0 million grant the Texas Military Preparedness Commission awarded Tom ...
Jon Larvick, the new president of the Sheppard Military Affairs Committee, plans to leverage the close relationship between the Air Force base in nort...
Like many of his fellow lawmakers, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) has opposed the Obama administration’s repeated requests to hold one or more rounds of base ...
TexAmericas Center, the reuse authority responsible for redeveloping the former Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant in northeastern Texas and surplus prop...
White Hall, the host community for Pine Bluff Arsenal, on Monday formed an advisory committee to bolster support for the central Arkansas facility by ...
Officials and other stakeholders in Corpus Christi concerned about the impact of a planned wind farm south of the city on training activities at Naval...
While the legislation he introduced last month to authorize a round of base closures includes a number of reforms to the process, Rep. Adam Smith (D-W...
ADC celebrated the defense communities, installations and their leaders who were recipients of the 2016 Defense Community Awards during last month&rsq...
Transfer of the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove to the Horsham LRA will be pushed back to 2018 due to the presence of perfluo...
With the timing of a new BRAC round uncertain, the Air Force has decided to conduct its own evaluations of its installations that possibly could be us...
Senior Army officials on Thursday made the case that shedding some of the service’s inventory of unneeded facilities by closing installations and cons...
The conference report for the fiscal 2017 military construction-veterans affairs spending bill likely will not garner enough votes to clear the Senate...
The next round of base closures would be held in 2019 and incorporate a series of reforms aimed at increasing congressional oversight and emphasizing ...
The New Jersey General Assembly on Thursday approved a measure requiring a state official to intervene when potential land use conflicts between milit...
House lawmakers on Thursday easily defeated an amendment that would have stripped out a prohibition in the fiscal 2017 defense spending bill on propos...
The Senate easily passed the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill 85-13 on Tuesday after another skirmish on the floor blocked most amendments from ...
The Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID), created in the wake of the 2005 BRAC round, is marking its 10-year anniversary amid a transforma...
A new book of case studies of base redevelopment chronicles the intricate and lengthy challenges community leaders and other government officials, pla...
The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto the Senate version of the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill over dozens of provisions, but focused ...
Despite Tobyhanna Army Depot’s positive track record and modern facilities, supporters of the northeast Pennsylvania facility and the region’s leaders...
A new round of base closures is urgently needed for the Pentagon to handle its growing responsibilities in the face of tight fiscal constraints, David...
The community support group for Fort Indiantown Gap, a state-owned training site for National Guard and Army Reserve units in Pennsylvania, is distrib...
The Senate on Thursday passed a two-bill appropriations package that includes $7.9 billion for military construction and family housing programs in fi...
House lawmakers on Wednesday approved language barring DOD from spending funds to propose, plan for or carry out a new round of base closures during t...
Naval Submarine Base New London averted closure in the 2005 round of base closures, but leaders from eastern Connecticut realize the installation like...
The White House on Monday threatened to veto the House version of the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill over its reliance on $18 billion in overs...
The city of Riverbank will receive a $39.5 million environmental services grant from the Army to remediate contaminated buildings and soil at the form...
In an attempt to prepare for further cutbacks in defense spending and the likelihood of a new round of base closures, the Maryland Military Installati...
ADC is proud to announce the 2016 recipients of its Defense Community Awards. Winners will be recognized during the 2016 Defense Communities National ...
The Georgia House last week formed a 15-member study committee to identify ways to safeguard the state’s military installations in the event a new rou...
Language prohibiting the Defense Department from launching a new round of base closures appears to have survived the House Armed Services Committee&rs...
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) has crafted a plan to allow the Defense Department to shed excess infrastructure that would follow the underlying BRAC proce...
DOD’s new analysis of excess capacity failed to persuade one of its key targets, House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), that it badly...
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved spending $7.9 billion on military construction and family housing programs in fiscal 2017, cl...
The Army has launched a formal effort to consider a new model for providing installation support services with the aim of turning over some functions ...
A study sponsored by the Michigan Defense Center is expected to shape state efforts to preserve its Army and Air National Guard facilities following a...
The combination of growing mission requirements and sharp funding constraints has forced the Army to find ways to manage its installations more effici...
The Army believes that up to 33 percent of its infrastructure could be excess to its needs by fiscal 2019 when its active-duty end strength drops to 4...
Grants awarded last week by the Texas Military Preparedness Commission (TMPC) will be used to renovate the International Training Center at Goodfellow...
The state of Maryland will invest $93.2 million in construction projects designed to alleviate congestion on one of the primary corridors providing ac...
Pennsylvania Rep. Bill Shuster (R) has asked Defense Secretary Ash Carter to justify the Pentagon’s request to hold a BRAC round in 2019, demanding hi...
The state of Texas on Thursday awarded $15.5 million to five Texas communities for infrastructure projects and other initiatives intended to stave off...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) last week opted to build its new $1.6 billion western headquarters in North St. Louis, bypassing a s...
There still is time to recognize the accomplishments of defense communities and their installations. ADC has extended the nominations deadline for the...
Funding to clean up installations closed during the first five BRAC rounds is on course to continue a steady decline under the fiscal 2017 recommendat...
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, b...
DOD organizations reoccupied about 1.1 million square feet of leased space in the Washington, D.C., region that had been vacated following the 2005 ro...
Legislation providing companies that hire 50 or more new workers at the former Fort McClellan a break on their payroll taxes will go to the Alabama Se...
Installation officials testifying last year about the Pentagon’s request for a new BRAC round were eager to tell Congress about the European Infrastru...
Several factors should make it less likely that Naval Submarine Base New London is targeted for closure in the next BRAC round, including an increased...
While the Defense Department continues to push for a new BRAC round as the most effective way to deal with excess infrastructure, the Army has begun c...
A new BRAC round could save the Defense Department as much as 25 percent of the cost of some missions, Jamie Morin, director for the Pentagon’s office...