Military Bases

Observations on the Analyses Supporting Proposed Closures and Realignments Gao ID: NSIAD-91-224 May 15, 1991

Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO reported on the Secretary of Defense's recommendations and the military services' selection process for base closures and realignments.

GAO found that: (1) the Army and the Air Force adequately documented their use of the Department of Defense Force Structure Plan and the four military criteria in their selection process; (2) the Navy did not adequately document its site selection process and did not establish the required internal controls to ensure the accuracy of the data it used; (3) the services inconsistently employed the cost of base realignment action model to estimate the costs and savings associated with their recommended closures and realignments; (4) the services used budgets from different fiscal years as their baselines in estimating costs and savings and used different cost factors; (5) the services' net present-value factors for inflation and discount rates were too conservative; (6) the services used inaccurate input data to calculate costs and savings estimates; and (7) the services differed in the extent to which they examined the local or regional economic impact of base closure or realignment.

Recommendations

Our recommendations from this work are listed below with a Contact for more information. Status will change from "In process" to "Open," "Closed - implemented," or "Closed - not implemented" based on our follow up work.

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