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Department of Defense The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of the United States.
Senior Real Property Officer: Dr. Dorothy Robyn
Agency Real Property Profile
The DoD has 2.24 million square feet of space. The graph to the right shows the type of space the DoD uses. The DoD requires a wide range of real property to support its mission, from airfields, wharves, and training ranges to family housing, museums, and hospitals. DoD installations require facilities to support the maintenance and deployment of weapon systems and the training and mobilization of combat forces. Increasingly, they have an even more direct link to combat operations, by providing "reachback" support. For example, DoD personnel operate Predator drones in Afghanistan from a facility in Nevada and analyze battlefield intelligence at data centers in the United States. The "All Others" slice of the graph is made up of numerous minor categories that includes laboratories, hospitals, prisons & detention centers and industrial buildings.
Reduction in Real Property Usage
DoD strives to manage its real property portfolio to ensure that scarce dollars are used to obtain maximum value. After completing the fifth round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), DoD understands the complex challenges of reducing unneeded real estate. The latest round, BRAC 2005, was the largest round undertaken by the Department by any measure, with a total annual recurring savings of $4B. It included 24 major closures, 24 major realignments, and 765 lesser actions. Together, these actions affected some 125,000 military personnel at more than 800 locations across the United States. Above and beyond the BRAC, the DOD’s goal for cost savings by the end of fiscal year 2012 is $650M. The chart “Progress Towards the Goal” identifies the achievement to date in real property cost savings.
Breakdown of Reduction
DoD disposed of 43.4M square feet in FY 2010. These disposals have enabled DoD to avoid a total of $48.7M in Operations and Maintenance costs in FY 2010 alone. DoD has also committed to reduce energy intensity by 3 percent in FY 2011-2012. Total energy cost avoidance is anticipated to be $329.2M for FY 2010-2012.
