Defense Real Estate

Lawmakers Move to Preserve Sustainment Funds for Privatized Housing Projects 0
- Congress/DoD, Defense Real Estate
- August 8, 2018
DOD will be required to make up the shortfall in revenue developers of privatized housing projects receive from service members as a result of a recent policy change reducing the rate of increase in the basic allowance for housing (BAH), under language in the conference report to the fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill. The measure
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Legislation Expands Access to On-Base Shopping 0
- Congress/DoD, Defense Real Estate, Military Families
- August 3, 2018
Former prisoners of war, Purple Heart recipients, veterans with service-connected disabilities and caregivers for veterans will be able shop at commissaries and exchanges, and use base recreational facilities, under the final version of the fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill. Expanding the pool of customers is one way to stem the declining revenues experienced by military
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In Other News: New York Air Base Was Source of Contamination in City’s Water Supply, Report Says; Grand Sky Launches Milestone International UAS Flight 0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, Defense Real Estate, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- July 16, 2018
State and local officials criticized the Pentagon for dragging its feet after it released a draft report last week confirming that Stewart Air National Guard Base, N.Y., was the source of PFAS contamination in Washington Lake, the drinking water supply used by the city of Newburgh. The state ordered the lake closed nearly two years
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Project outside F.E. Warren AFB to Shorten Commute for Airmen 0
- Defense Real Estate, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- July 11, 2018
State and local funds will be used to support a mixed-use development near the southern border of F.E. Warren AFB in southeast Wyoming designed to improve the quality of life for hundreds of personnel. Last month the State Loan and Investment Board approved $4.3 million in grants and loans to the city of Cheyenne to
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Provision in House Defense Bill Would Add Tens of Thousands of On-Base Shoppers 0
- Congress/DoD, Defense Real Estate
- July 10, 2018
Defense officials have told lawmakers they would support language in the House version of the fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill opening on-base shopping at commissaries and exchanges to disabled veterans, Purple Heart recipients and caregivers of severely injured veterans if those groups were assessed an additional 5 percent surcharge at commissaries. The change would benefit
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Senate Panel Asks DOD about Plans for Dealing with Excess Properties 0
- Congress/DoD, Defense Real Estate, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- July 6, 2018
With long-standing questions remaining about the condition of the Pentagon’s vast real estate portfolio and whether it has adequate resources to sustain it going forward, the Senate Armed Services Committee directs the department to provide a report on various aspects of its installation management activities, including how it targets maintenance funds to the highest -priority
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