2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission Report: Volume 1 Page: 73
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USAR COMMAND AND CONTROL NEW ENGLAND
RECOMMENDATION # 52 (ARMY 107)
ONE-TIME COST: $96.1M
ANNUAL RECURRING COSTS/(SAVINGS): ($8.4M)
20-YEAR NET PRESENT VALUE: ($21.8M)
PAYBACK PERIOD: 13 YEARS
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RECOMMENDATION
Close the Westover Armed Forces Reserve Center, Chicopee, MA, the MacArthur United States Army Reserve Center,
Springfield, MA, the United States Army Reserve Area Maintenance Support Activity, Windsor Locks, CT, and realign the
Malony United States Army Reserve Center on Devens Reserve Forces Training Area by disestablishing the 94th Regional
Readiness Command, and relocate all units from the closed facilities to a new Armed Forces Reserve Center on Westover
Air Reserve Base. Establish an Army Reserve Maneuver Enhancement Brigade headquarters in the new Armed Forces
Reserve Center on Westover Air Reserve Base. Realign Devens Reserve Forces Training Area by relocating the 5th JTF,
654th ASG and the 382nd MP Battalion to the new Armed Forces Reserve Center on Westover Air Reserve Base. The new
Armed Forces Reserve Center shall have the capability to accommodate Massachusetts Army National Guard units from the
Massachusetts Army National Guard Armory in Agawam, MA, if the state decides to relocate those National Guard units.
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE JUSTIFICATION
This recommendation transforms Reserve Component facilities and command and control structure throughout the New
England Region of the United States. The implementation of this recommendation will enhance military value, improve
homeland defense capability, greatly improve training and deployment capability, create significant efficiencies and cost
savings, and is consistent with the Army's force structure plans and Army transformational objectives.
This recommendation is the result of a nation-wide analysis of Reserve Component installations and facilities conducted by a
team of functional experts from Headquarters, Department of the Army, the Office of the State Adjutant General, and the
Army Reserve Regional Readiness Command.
This recommendation supports the Army Reserve's Command and Control restructuring initiative to reduce Regional
Readiness Commands from ten to four by disestablishing one major peacetime administrative headquarters, the 94th
Regional Readiness Command, and creating a new deployable headquarters on Westover Air Reserve Base.
This recommendation closes one Armed Forces Reserve Center in Chicopee, MA, one United States Army Reserve Center
in Springfield, MA, one United States Army Reserve Area Maintenance Support Activity in Windsor Locks, CT, and
constructs a multicomponent, multifunctional Armed Forces Reserve Center on Westover Air Reserve Base. The Marine
Corps Reserve units located in the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Chicopee will relocate to the new AFRC on Westover
Air Reserve Base. The Department understands that the State of Massachusetts will close one Massachusetts Army National
Guard Armory in Agawam, MA. The Armed Forces Reserve Center will have the capability to accommodate these units if
the state decides to relocate the units from the closed facilities into the new AFRC.
Although not captured in the COBRA analysis, this recommendation avoids an estimated $21.6M in mission facility
renovation costs and procurement avoidances associated with meeting AT/FP construction standards and altering existing
facilities to meet unit training and communications requirements. Consideration of these avoided costs reduce costs and
increase the net savings to the Department of Defense in the 6-year BRAC implementation period and in the 20-year period
used to calculate NPV.
This recommendation provides the opportunity for other Local, State, or Federal organizations to partner with the Reserve
Components to enhance homeland security and homeland defense at a reduced cost to those agencies.
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