- Home
- » About BRAC
- » News
News
- February 20, 2012
- Panetta Makes the Case for BRAC
At last week’s hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on the fiscal 2013 budget request, the topic of BRAC came up often, with lawmakers questioning the rationale behind the Pentagon’s proposal for two more rounds a common refrain.
Read More
- Services echo Panetta on threat of sequestration cuts
Echoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, leaders of the Army, Navy and Marines outlined the devastation that an additional $500 billion in automatic cuts through sequestration would have on the military at budget hearings this week.
Read More
- February 20, 2012
- Military building boom that buoyed Texas comes to a halt
- Read More
- February 16, 2012
- Prospect of Sequestration Having Impact, Panetta Says
While congressional defense hawks and others attempt to overturn $500 billion in automatic defense cuts slated to go into effect starting next January, the threat alone of sequestration is casting a “huge shadow of doubt” over defense industries, their workers and the military, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Thursday.
Read More
- February 16, 2012
- Panetta Faces Questions on BRAC
For communities trying to handicap the chances that Congress will grant the Pentagon’s request for one or two base closure rounds, one argument working against a new BRAC round is that at a time when DOD desperately needs to find ways to slash the budget here and now, why would the administration propose an undertaking that would seem to cost money in the short term, with the prospect of savings likely to occur only further down the road.
Read More
- February 15, 2012
- Realignment of bases questioned
San Angelo Rep. Mike Conaway said he doesn't support the 2013 round of base realignment and closure — BRAC — proposed in the Pentagon's new budget. And it's too soon for him to take a position on the 2015 BRAC round floated in the same defense budget, Conaway, a Republican from Midland, said Wednesday outside a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill.
Read More
- February 16, 2012
- BRAC Counter-Attack
- Read More
- February 16, 2012
- San Antonio bracing for possible future round of BRAC
San Antonio’s City Council unanimously approved a resolution of intent on Thursday for a plan that could result in 139 acres of city-owned land located just west of Kelly Field being conveyed to Lackland Air Force Base
Read More
- February 16, 2012
- Panetta Asks Congress to Undo Sequestration, Approve BRAC
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta Feb. 15 urged Congress to undo an automatic $500 billion cut to defense spending due to go into effect next year, and made his case for two new rounds of military base realignments and closures.
Read More
- February 13, 2012
- New Community Support Funding Proposed for OEA
The Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) would assist communities affected by the loss of weapons manufacturing jobs as well as those preparing to accommodate an influx of troops returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, under the fiscal 2013 budget request the Pentagon released Monday.
Read More
