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BRAC Updates
- January 26, 2012
- Pentagon to request 2 new rounds of BRAC
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to request, as early as Thursday, two new rounds of military base closures in the United States as part of the Pentagon budget-cutting process, according to defense sources. Panetta is scheduled to brief reporters at 2 p.m. EST Thursday on how the Defense Department will begin cutting $487 billion from projected spending over the next 10 years to meet the initial spending caps in the Budget Control Act.
- January 26, 2012
- Administration to Ask for BRAC Authority, Panetta Says
President Obama will request Congress authorize use of the BRAC process, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said during a Pentagon news briefing held Thursday to preview DOD’s fiscal 2013 budget request, confirming speculation that had been swirling around Washington for much of the past year.
- January 26, 2012
- Panetta Offers Peek into FY 2013 Budget Request
Pentagon officials Thursday outlined an array of changes to the military’s force structure, weapons systems and equipment, overhead, and personnel and retiree costs needed to slash hundreds of billions of dollars from the budget through 2021.
- January 26, 2012
- Key Lawmakers Leery of Request for New BRAC Round
Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said Thursday that the Pentagon’s priority should be culling its bases in Europe before it moves on to reducing its real estate in the United States. “I have been a strong supporter of BRACs in the past. But I’m not able to support BRAC domestically until we reduce bases in particular in Europe,” Levin said, according to CQ Today.
- January 26, 2012
- Pentagon plans for five years of reduced raises for civilian employees
The Defense Department is planning for smaller pay raises for its civilian employees through fiscal 2017 — and that doesn't bode well for the rest of the federal workforce. According to a budget document Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will formally unveil this afternoon and obtained by Federal Times, Defense plans to save $60 billion between fiscal 2013 and 2017 by cutting "excess overhead, operations expenses and personnel costs." Part of that will come from "reductions in planned civilian pay raises."
