BRAC to the Future: An Analysis of Past Savings from Base Closings

Abstract

This thesis uses regression to analyze the savings resulting from the previous four rounds of BRAC in terms of their affect on each of the Air Force budget appropriations. For each appropriation, while the number of major installations initially appears to be a significant determinant in explaining the change in the budget, the number of bases becomes insignificant if a surrogate for Air Force mission requirements is included as the explanatory variable. We tested three surrogate measures for mission requirements: number of flying hours, number of aircraft, and number of active duty personnel. In each case, we found the number of active duty Air Force members to be a better predictor of the budget level than the regression model that included the number of major installations. We conclude that mission requirements are a better indicator of the required funding than the number of major installations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 20, 2001
Accession Number
ADA391058

Entities

People

  • Charles S. Tapp Ii

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Budgets
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Aircrafts
  • Base Closures
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Environmental Restoration And Remediation
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Families
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting