On February 19, President Donald J. Trump signed an order directing the Pentagon to develop plans to establish a U.S. Space Force, with its mandate to “marshal its space resources to deter and counter threats in…
Category: DoD
Agency Profile: The US Army Futures Command
If knowledge is power, as the English scientist and politician Sir Francis Bacon is credited with saying, then knowing how and when to use force can be thought of as a kind of superpower. It requires…
President Proposes New BRAC Rounds
President Obama has proposed a new round of military base closures and realignments in his FY 2014 budget. That budget contains a $2.4 billion line item calling for two new rounds of the Base Realignment and…
DoD Landlords Dodge a Bullet (yet most don’t even know it)
Every once in a while a topic comes along that I really want to write about but can’t seem to get to it. This time that topic is the Department of Defense (DoD) security standards. A…
Spotlight: U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command
Which federal agency’s motto is “Freedom’s Front Door”? The U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM)—a Department of Defense (DoD) joint civilian and military organization—is charged with the unique and challenging task of determining the physical, mental…
Looking Back on BRAC: Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Occupying more than 251 square miles and covering parts of four counties (Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke and Moore) in southeastern North Carolina, Fort Bragg is one of the largest military complexes in the world. Recent BRAC-related construction…
Looking Back on BRAC: Fort Meade, Anne Arundel County, Maryland
With more than 56,000 employees—including about 5,700 new jobs that have resulted from BRAC-related movements—Fort George G. Meade is the largest employer in Maryland, the fifth-largest employment center in the state, and has the third-largest workforce…
Looking Back on BRAC: Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama
As we’ve reported in numerous postings throughout the past year (click on “BRAC” in the “Categories” to the right), the Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) process has led to the closure of more than 350 military…
Spotlight: USACE
Which federal agency is the world’s largest public engineering, design and construction management agency? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (also known as USACE or simply “the Corps”) is made up of some 37,000 civilian and…
GovSpeak: “MILCON”
The widely used abbreviation for military construction is MILCON (also written variously as MilCon, Milcon or milcon). This typically refers to any construction, alteration, development, conversion or extension of any kind carried out with respect to…