全球智库信息集成服务系统

Several consistent themes arose across various Army installations

• Installations face DPW staff shortages; greater flexibility to hire additional staff would allow them to perform more projects within existing budgets.
• Use of GFEBS for real property management functions has caused ongoing challenges because of difficulties entering required data and extracting usable management reports.
• DPW staff have benefited from sharing best practices across installations and would like more opportunities to share information with colleagues.

Installations employ a variety of practices to improve the allocation of sustainment funding

• Grouping smaller service orders in the same locations helps to reduce travel time and costs.
• Assigning staff members as liaisons to major tenants can provide better understanding of missions and facilities and facilitate development of projects.
• Installations also identify alternative funding sources for sustainment projects, such as tenant mission funding.
• Establishing partnerships with state and local governments helps with leveraging resources and reducing costs.

Other Service branches and the private sector use varying approaches to funding and analysis

• The Air Force develops an integrated priority list of major projects across installations based on mission impact and uses a centralized, data-based process to develop installation work plans.
• The Navy uses a condition-based maintenance model to direct funding to targeted focus areas based on a MDI.
• The Marine Corps funds major projects centrally and delegates about half of sustainment, restoration, and modernization (SRM) funding to installations and allows them to set their own priorities.
• The private sector focuses on minimizing facility life-cycle costs and on integrating facility planning and construction, operations and maintenance, SRM, and eventual disposal.

In recent years, the Army has been willing to accept risk in installation facility sustainment to maintain warfighting readiness. However, underfunding of facility sustainment can result in higher life-cycle costs because it increases the likelihood that facility components will break down or fail prematurely. To identify strategies for improving the Army's allocation and execution of installation facility sustainment funding, the authors conducted interviews with installation Directorate of Public Works (DPW) staff and subject-matter experts in the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Army Corps of Engineers, along with a literature review of facility sustainment practices in the military Services, other public-sector organizations, and the private sector. The authors recommend that the Army allow installations more flexibility on DPW staffing within existing budgets, improve or supplement the real property and facility sustainment functions in the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), fund the implementation of BUILDER – a DoD-mandated Sustainment Management System (SMS) – and use it to develop longer-range models that show the effects of deferred maintenance on life-cycle costs, and develop a Mission Dependency Index (MDI) to prioritize sustainment projects and create linkages with installation readiness. At the installation level, DPW staff should implement innovative practices that have been successful at other installations; increase efforts to identify alternative sources of funding for sustainment projects, such as tenant mission funding and by leveraging community partnerships; and identify opportunities for active and reserve component units to perform projects as part of their training.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Insights from Installation Visits and Interviews

• Chapter Three

  Insights from Installation Status Report Data Analysis

• Chapter Four

  Insights from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Services

• Chapter Five

  Insights from Facility Management Trends, Practices, and Research

• Chapter Six

  Findings and Recommendations

• Appendix

  Additional Installation Status Report Data Analysis