ADC Annual Conference

Defense Community Award Recipients Hit on Theme of Collaboration 0
- Headlines, News from ADC
- June 6, 2014
Partnerships are key to supporting installations and communities near them, according to several recipients of the 2014 Defense Community Awards, which were presented at a special ceremony Thursday on Capitol Hill…
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Navy Stands apart on BRAC, Shared Services 0
- Headlines, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- June 23, 2013
It’s not quite like Goldilocks and the Three Bears — the Army and Navy both believe their infrastructure is too large. But for the Navy, it’s just right. At the Defense Communities National Summit earlier this month, Roger Natsuhara, the Navy’s acting assistant secretary for energy, installations and environment, drew a sharp distinction between recent trends facing the Army and the Air Force, and the Navy. While the force structure of the other two services has declined since the last base closure round, or is slated to, the Navy’s has not …
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Next BRAC Round May Not Be around the Corner 0
- Congress/DoD, Headlines, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, News from ADC
- June 16, 2013
The panelists assembled Friday for the Defense Policy Town Hall at the Defense Communities National Summit all agreed that DOD urgently needs to close excess bases and facilities as part of an effort to reform its spending, but were less certain as to when Congress would go along with the suggestion. “I wouldn’t say there is an air of inevitability,” said Mackenzie Eaglen, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute …
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Pain of Sequestration to Linger, Installation Officials Say 0
- Congress/DoD, Headlines, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, News from ADC
- June 13, 2013
Installation funding is bearing the brunt of the impact from the automatic spending cuts triggered under sequestration in fiscal 2013, forcing the services to skimp on facilities sustainment and slash base operating support budgets, according to the military’s top installation officials. The three services have been deferring virtually all non-emergency maintenance — funded under the sustainment, restoration and modernization account — at their installations. Base operating support has been cut drastically as well, with the Navy slicing that account by more than 50 percent …
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Army Realignment Decision Coming Shortly, Hammack Says 0
- Headlines, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, News from ADC
- June 13, 2013
The Army will announce by the end of the month what installations will be affected by its plan to trim its active-duty end strength by 72,000 soldiers by fiscal 2020, Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary for installations, energy and environment, said during the assistant secretaries roundtable at the Defense Communities National Summit. The Army plans to rebalance its force structure by inactivating a minimum of eight brigade combat teams — including two from Europe. Affected installations would lose one BCT, along with thousands of additional soldiers and civilians. Installations without a BCT could lose thousands of personnel as well …
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Installation Commanders to Consider Shared Services Agreements in Army Communities 0
- Headlines, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, News from ADC
- June 13, 2013
Army officials next week will jump start an effort by installation commanders to reach out to their host communities to identify potential opportunities to share municipal services and other base support functions, Katherine Hammack, assistant secretary for installations, energy and environment, said Thursday at the Defense Communities National Summit. The initiative is intended to take advantage of a new authority, enacted in January as part of the fiscal 2013 defense authorization bill, allowing an installation to enter into an intergovernmental support agreement with a local government to provide, receive or share support services for most municipal functions …
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