Letters dtd 08/11/05 to Chairman Principi and all the Commissioners from Monterey, CA Mayor Dan Albert Page: 4 of 4

                                
DCN 7301
Executive Correspondence
BRIEFING POINTS REGARDING THE NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
AND DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
I.      A "value added" that is in the national interest is maintained by retaining the Naval Postgraduate School
(NPS) and Defense Language Institute (DLI) in Monterey.
a. This value flows in two directions. First, proximity to other research and education assets in the Monterey Bay
area enhances the mission capabilities and military value of each school. Second, the presence of DLI and NPS
adds to the ability of the region' s other assets to address important national security and competitiveness issues.
II.     Privatization of either NPS or DLI undermines mission value and national security, and does not make
financial sense.
a.  On a total cost basis, graduate education at NPS is less expensive than that at civilian universities. The
Navy's COBRA run for closure of NPS is so flawed that it purports to save more money than is appropriated
to run NPS.
b. The Navy's COBRA run for closure of NPS and privatization of graduate education grossly underestimates
costs to privatize. In reality, privatization would cost an additional $142.42 million over the status quo per
year, as opposed to the annual savings of $89.5 million per year contemplated by the Navy's COBRA
analysis.
c. The world class defense-oriented reimbursable research program at NPS, and the extraordinary project
support that NPS faculty and students furnish to commanders in the field, have not been contemplated in the
Navy's BRAC analysis for closure, either in terms of military value or cost.
II.     Relocation of either NPS or DLI to another community undermines mission value and national security,
and does not make financial sense.
a. Initial estimates indicate that it would cost more than $1.4 billion to replicate the DLI and NPS academic
campuses in Ohio.
b. Much of DLI's military value and success is driven by its 1,100 civilian faculty members (98% of whom are
native speakers from more than 40 countries). Much of this extraordinary human infrastructure would not
move to Ohio. It will take years to replicate it at a time when DoD is already working hard to grow today's
language capacity. As a result, there would be a major disruption of mission capability during the transition
period.
c. Replicating NPS in Ohio would also face the same problems. Most of the faculty, the intellectual capital of
the university, would not move. It is estimated that it would take 12 to 15 years to replicate the human
infrastructure.
IV.     Opportunities exist to reduce the costs to operate DLI and NPS in Monterey
a. Consolidation of the Presidio of Monterey and Naval Postgraduate School campuses would eliminate
redundant base support structures between two installations less than 1.2 miles apart.
d. Installation consolidation would facilitate further implementation of base support agreements with
neighboring cities. According to Army Audit Agency, City of Monterey helped Presidio of Monterey save
49% of its base operating dollars.
e. Consolidation of base support functions could free up substantial facility space on the Presidio of Monterey

such that classroom space could be increased an estimated 10% to 20%. This may somewhat reduce the scope
of construction for planned mission growth.

July 26, 2005