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BRAC end-date met with staggered deadlines
The BRAC deadline is being met with staggered deadlines, WTOP reports, that are expected to drag on for years.
Today is the deadline for BRAC. But that doesn’t mean it’s exactly time to relax.
Navy Vice Adm. Dr. John Mateczun — who oversaw the closing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center — reports that some of the toughest challenges are still to come, according to Defense.gov.
Mateczun, commander of Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical, says now is the time to generate some of the efficiencies BRAC was designed to provide, including consolidated support services.
For example, three electronic medical networks in the DC region are being combined into one joint medical network so providers can share patient records.
Elsewhere, the BRAC deadline is being met with staggered deadlines, WTOP reports, that are expected to drag on for years.
In Arlington, Va., for example, 17-thousand jobs near the Pentagon are being moved to Fort Belvoir, Va., and other military installations around the country. But 10,000 of those jobs remain in Arlington, and aren’t expected to move for up to three years.
That’s because DoD has given some agencies the ability to extend their office leases beyond today’s deadline under certain circumstances.
The 6,400 defense workers slated to move to the MARK Center are also being moved on a staggered basis.
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