Download or read book The Report of the Department of Defense on Base Realignment and Closure written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DoD) is providing this report to explain how the new legal authorities for base realignment and closure requested in conjunction with the Department's Defense Reform Initiative and the fiscal year 1999 budget will, cut waste, generate savings needed to sustain readiness and accelerate modernization, adapt the base structure to the dynamic security challenges of the 21st Century. DoD is also providing this report in response to Section 2824 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998. Section 2824 requires DoD to re port to the Congress the cost and savings from previously approved domestic military base closures and realignments, certain information related to its proposal for additional closures and realignments, and other information related to installations. The text of Section 2824 is reproduced in Appendix A.