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Statement ofDaniel II. Else May 3, 2005
BRAC actions. The Joint Cross-Service Groups were created for the 1995 round. Then,
six groups dedicated to depot maintenance, military medical treatment facilities, test and
evaluation, undergraduate pilot training, laboratories, and economic impact provided
their analyses to the military departments for consideration in their deliberations.
In the 2005 round, seven Joint Cross-Service Groups are conducting their own
analyses, providing them directly to the Infrastructure Executive Council, as do the
military departments.
The Infrastructure Executive Council acts as a final deliberative body in the
creation of the list recommended to the Secretary of Defense. It is chaired by the Deputy
Secretary of Defense and includes the secretaries of tlie military departments, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, including its chairman, and the Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
The information upon which all DOD analysis is based has been generated in
what are called "data calls." A typical data call would originate within the Joint Cross-
Service Groups, and be transmitted through the military departments to military
installations. There, a designated individual would be responsible for gathering the
requested information, certifying it for accuracy, and returning it through the military
department to the Joint Cross-Service Groups. This process creates the certified data that
the Department of Defense has stated constitutes the only input to its analysis for this
BRAC round.
Three basic computer modeling or simulation packages are being used by DOD in
its analysis. The Optimization Methodology has been the responsibility of the Navy to
create and adapt, and has been subcontracted to the Center For Naval Analyses. Its
primary use has been to estimate military value.
COBRA, or Cost of Base Realignment Actions, is an Army update of a program
used during prior rounds to estimate the cost, savings, and return. on investment of
actions contemplated for BRAC.
The Installation Visualization Tool has been created by the Air Force for use in
land planning. This computer tool overlays geospatial digital maps and elevations with
imagery and other geographic data such as wetlands and explosive arcs to enable the easy
visualization of current and potential land use at installations.
The Department of Defense is to release all of the supporting documentation to
the Commission along with its list of recommended actions. The Department is to
simultaneously open reading rooms on the House and Senate sides of Capitol Hill that
will contain copies of this information.
I thank you for your attention, and I look forward to answering any questions you
may have.
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