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Improving Military Facilities
The Military Engineer,
July-August 2002
By William J. Faesenmeier and Russ Watson
ABSTRACT
The degraded condition of military installation
facilities is common knowledge. Reports by both
government and outside entities consistently
say the condition of facilities is poor and
funding to improve them is inadequate. Furthermore,
determining what is meant by “adequate”
is complicated by concepts such as readiness,
restoration, upgrading, sustainment, maintainability
and recapitalization. Up to now, studies have
focused primarily on quantifying needs, and
little has been done to overcome deficiencies,
such as the repair backlog. This backlog has
been reported by the Office of the Secretary
of Defense to have increased from $8.9 to $14.6
billion during fiscal years 1992-1998.
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