Marine Corps Plans to Expand Use of Partnership Authority following Early Success
- Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- April 12, 2017
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Administration, Lawmakers Need to Confront Budget Challenges Facing Installations, Conger Says0
- Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- October 9, 2018
In an essay accompanying the Heritage Foundation’s 2019 Index of U.S. Military Strength, John Conger, who led the Pentagon’s installations office from 2012 to 2015, highlights the challenges facing DOD’s installations enterprise — years of underfunding, congressional opposition to a new BRAC round, increasing pressures from encroachment, and threats to mission assurance including energy outages,
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Around Town: DOD Can Say Sayonara to CRs; Immigrant Investor Program Gains Short-Term Extension0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD
- October 1, 2018
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a two-bill spending package that fully funds the Pentagon in fiscal 2019, lifting defense officials from the challenge of coping with short-term spending measures for the first time in 10 years. The legislation’s enactment marks a rare achievement, especially after the president one week earlier signed a three-bill package
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In Other News: New Ft. Benning Elementary School Features Modern Learning Methods, Sustainable Elements; Army Updates Process for Reviewing Energy Efficiency, Resiliency Projects0
- Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- September 28, 2018
Officials at Fort Benning, Ga., on Wednesday celebrated the grand opening of a 109,390-square-feet elementary school serving families at the post’s Patton Village neighborhood. The school, which opened Aug. 6, hosts 600 students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, reports Fort Benning Public Affairs. It does not have a traditional classroom layout; instead, teaching areas are
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On the Hill: Trump Signs FY’19 Milcon Minibus; Congress May Send White House DOD Spending Bill before Week’s End0
- Congress/DoD
- September 24, 2018
President Trump on Friday signed the first batch of fiscal 2019 spending bills Congress is planning to send his way by Oct. 1, providing full-year appropriations for the military construction-Veterans Affairs, energy-water and legislative branch titles. The conference report for the three-bill minibus allocates $10.3 billion for military construction and family housing programs next year,
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Army Corps Reorganization Would Impact Installation Support, Spending Panels Say0
- Congress/DoD
- September 24, 2018
Lawmakers who negotiated the compromise military construction-Veterans Affairs spending bill weighed in on the administration’s proposal to shift the Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works program to two other agencies, the Transportation and Interior departments. “The conferees are opposed to the reorganization as it could ultimately have impacts for implementation of the military construction, BRAC
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Conferees Point to Parking Problems at Growth Installations0
- Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- September 20, 2018
Constraints on recent military construction budgets have prevented DOD from addressing “urgent” parking requirements at some installations, according to the conferees who negotiated the conference report for the fiscal 2019 spending package covering the military construction-Veterans Affairs, energy-water and legislative branch appropriations bills. “The lack of parking is a safety issue and a detriment to
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