Defense Infrastructure: The Enhanced Use Lease Program Requires Management Attention
Abstract
To help address challenges associated with deteriorating facilities and underused property, the Department of Defense (DOD) has pursued a strategy that includes leasing underused real property to gain additional resources for improving installation facilities. Section 2667 of Title 10, U.S. Code, provides authority to the military departments to lease nonexcess real property, subject to several provisions, in exchange for cash or in-kind consideration. According to the military services, some leases, referred to as enhanced use leases (EUL), are more complex with long terms and could provide hundreds of millions of dollars for in-kind services to improve installation facilities. A committee report accompanying the 2011 defense authorization directed GAO to review the EUL program. This report (1) assesses the extent to which selected EULs complied with section 2667 of Title 10, U.S. Code; (2) determines to what extent the services? expectations for their EULs have been realized; and (3) evaluates the services? management of the EUL program. GAO reviewed information on the services? 17 EULs in place at the end of fiscal year 2010 and selected 9 for detailed case study.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA545394
Entities
People
- Brian Lopez
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office