Marine Corps Plans to Expand Use of Partnership Authority following Early Success
- Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- April 12, 2017
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For Defense Hawks in House, Funding Deadline Looms Large0
- Congress/DoD
- July 19, 2018
Advancing appropriations bills was supposed to be easier this year, after lawmakers reached a two-year budget deal on topline spending levels covering fiscal 2018 and 2019 in February. But defense hawks understandably are anxious that the military once again will be forced to operate under a continuing resolution (CR) when FY 2019 begins. Both chambers
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Army Stakeholders Learn about New Guidance for Energy Efficiency, Resiliency Investments0
- Energy
- July 18, 2018
With the objective of DOD’s former Energy Conservation Investment Program recently extended to include projects designed to enhance energy resilience, officials from across the Army responsible for the rechristened Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP) met last month to learn about the service’s new planning guidance for prospective projects. The importance of updating the
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Air Force Looks for Best Path to Bring Down Facility Investment Backlog0
- Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- July 5, 2018
Faced with an overwhelming $33 billion backlog in facilities maintenance, the Air Force is searching for a way to ensure its annual investments in facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization address the service’s highest-priority needs. One step the service is taking is directing its major commands to craft infrastructure master plans. We “are going to try
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Senate’s Policy Bill Slows Effort to Improve Readiness by Shortchanging Troop Levels, White House Says0
- Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- June 28, 2018
The White House cited dozens of elements it objects to in the Senate’s fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill, including language authorizing an increase in active-duty personnel that is less than half the number the administration requested, but the Statement of Administration Policy it released Tuesday fell short of threatening to veto the annual policy measure.
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Cost of Milcon for Modernization, New Beddowns at Marine Corps Bases Proves Expensive0
- Congress/DoD
- June 27, 2018
The cost of construction projects needed to accommodate new aircraft and vehicles at a handful of Marine Corps bases is starting to add up. The defense authorization bill passed by the Senate last week includes $134 million to build new hangars and other infrastructure needed to support the first F-35 squadrons assigned to Marine Corps
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In Other News: ‘Minibus’ with Milcon Spending Advances to Conference; Two Texas Installations to House Migrant Detainees0
- Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- June 27, 2018
The Senate on Monday passed a fiscal 2019 spending package made up of the military construction-Veterans Affairs, energy-water and legislative branch titles, setting up a House-Senate conference to hash out a compromise version of the “minibus.” A handful of policy differences between the two chambers’ versions could slow negotiations in conference committee, though. Action on
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