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• The research identified three main categories of approach: outgrants (mostly large-scale leases, such as enhanced use leases [EULs], and easements), facility and infrastructure sharing partnerships, and other facility and land use partnerships and deals.
• Outgrants and facility and infrastructure sharing partnerships are the most common land and facility deals and partnership approaches that can and have earned funds or saved money at military installations. They also have enhanced installation operations and readiness, improved support for military personnel and their families, and provided energy, environmental, and other benefits.
• Other installation and community benefits from outgrants include providing uses for underutilized installation property, improving public and community relations, and providing additional jobs and other economic benefits to the local community.
• Besides saving construction, operations and maintenance (O&M) and other facility costs and improving military operations, facility and infrastructure sharing partnerships can save manpower hours and enable innovation in space design, such as amenities and aesthetics, future space flexibility, and workspaces to promote collaboration. Major facility investment decision points can provide opportunities to develop and implement such approaches.
• Main drivers for facility and infrastructure sharing partnerships are a desire to reduce costs, wanting to improve the military mission, and/or the need to decide about a major facility investment, such as the need to upgrade or construct a new building.
• State and local governments play important roles to facilitate, support, and participate in such installation partnerships and deals.
• Developing and implementing these outgrants and facility and infrastructure sharing partnerships can be challenging. Project complexity, legal requirements, and government policies limit and slow development of these deals. Other challenges include lack of staff experience with them, limited incentives for implementation, the time required for implementation, security and access concerns, and cultural differences between the military and the potential partners.

Army installation facility and land use deals and partnerships can provide Army installations with substantial benefits, such as saving costs and improving installation operations. The partnerships that often produce the greatest financial benefits involve installation real estate, buildings, and other facilities (such as air fields). These arrangements have generated significant revenue and saved substantial funds for some military installations. Army installations have been facing significant budget reductions and need to find ways to maintain operations and even enhance installation readiness despite declining budgets. An installation real estate deal or facility sharing partnership might be one way for the Army to save and earn large amounts of money. However, the U.S. Army has taken only limited advantage of these approaches, partly because of several barriers. Implementing these arrangements can be time-consuming, complex, and manpower-intensive, and they require significant local knowledge and ongoing community and partner communications. In addition, their development and implementation usually require financial, legal, contracting, real estate, engineering, and other technical expertise and resources, and these are not always readily available on the installation. This report assesses Army installation real estate and facility deals and partnership approaches, such as large-scale leasing deals (sometimes called enhanced use leases [EULs]), and provides recommendations to improve installation use of these approaches to save costs, improve installation operations and readiness, and increase other benefits.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Identifying Approaches and Practices for Developing and Implementing Installation Facility Sharing and Real Estate Deals and Partnerships

• Chapter Three

  Military Installation Outgrants

• Chapter Four

  Facility and Infrastructure Sharing Partnerships with Other Government Agencies

• Chapter Five

  Conclusions and Recommendations

• Appendix A

  Case Study Examples of Installation Outgrants

• Appendix B

  Legal Authorities and the Outgrant Process

• Appendix C

  Other National Security Facility and Infrastructure Sharing Partnership Examples