Improving Military Facilities

By William J. Faesenmeier and Russ Watson

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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