DOD and Industry's Big Mission Ahead: Advancing Operation Buildup
If fighting the Iraq war, maintaining a global presence and closing bases at home isn’t enough, the U.S. military has a new challenge reinventing itself. Updating its fighting style, adding thousands of recruits and revamping a decades-old quality of life now mandates a different footprint for the military, and that means billions of dollars in new construction over the next several years and a more enlightened, environmental and expedited approach to managing the building process.
For a military used to huge undertakings, this one is monumental, say service top brass. “The U.S. Army is undergoing the largest transformational change since 1942,” said its vice chief of e staff, Gen. Richard A. Cody last month in announcing the service’s plan to add nearly 75,000 active and reserve personnel by 2010, two years sooner than originally planned, with plans for a 547,000-person force. “We’ve changed our doctine, we’ve changed our organizational structure. This is absolutely huge what we’re doing.” Click here for briefing document ( 765 KB).