Military Bases: Review of DOD's 1998 Report on Base Realignment and Closure
Abstract
After four BRAC rounds between 1988 and 1995, the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that DOD still retained excess facilities infrastructure. Both cited the need for future BRAC authority. Subsequently, the 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review and the 1997 report of the congressionally mandated National Defense Panel addressed the problem of remaining excess infrastructure within DOD and recommended that additional BRAC rounds be conducted. In DOD's May 19, 1997, report to the Congress on the results of the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Secretary announced that DOD would ask the Congress to authorize two additional BRAC rounds. In considering the Secretary's request for additional BRAC round authority in 1997, various Members of Congress questioned the need for any future rounds. As a result, the Congress enacted section 2824 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998, which required that the Secretary of Defense provide the Congress with a comprehensive report on a range of BRAC issues and described the manner in which the data were to be presented in the report. That legislation also required the Secretary to submit the report not later than the date on which the President submitted to the Congress the budget for fiscal year 2000 and prohibited DOD from spending funds to plan for subsequent BRAC actions until the report was delivered. DOD submitted its report, The Report of the Department of Defense on Base Realignment and Closure, on April 2, 1998.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA356280
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office