Management of the military facilities procurement program. Final report (1971) / Chapter Skim
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... facil ity requirements and of future means of satisfying those requirements Moreover, m planning for future development, the step-wise nature of development needs to be more fully recognized, and planning i tse l f should include evaluation of alternative five-year capital improvement programs based on forecasts of economic, social, and technolo||ical trends pertaining to construction I f these things would be done, the process could then be described as comprehensive planning Accordingly, i t has been recommended that the analysis of existing conditions, now performed as part of the installation master planning process, be expanded to include assessment of physical condition, functional value, and operating and maintenance expenses of buildings and structures, as well as more detailed investigation and evaluation of underground uti l i t ies and foundation conditions It also has been recommended that the projection of requirements, now performed as part of installation master planning, be expanded to include evaluation of alternative five-year capital improvement programs based on rigorous forecasts of economic, social, and technological trends, and on how these programs wil l affect, or be affected by, any surroimding community 2 3 12 Funding of Comprehensive Planning - In the Army and the Air Force, responsibility for master planning of installations (as presently defined) is vested m the installation commander, who, m turn, delegates responsibility for the conduct of studies and preparation and revising of maps, plans, and reports to the real property maintenance (RPM)
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... In the Navy, responsibility for installation master planning I S vested in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, with the actual planning being accomplished by the regional field offices and teams deployed from headquarters Here again, funds for the planning operation are part of the general operation and maintenance fimds of the Navy, and must be secured in the ligjit of competitive short-term goals The manner in which master planning activity is now funded affects the manner in which the operation is staffed and the degree of professional attention devoted to the operation In each of the three military Departments, personnel participating in planning activities is small in number and may not be accorded the same professional recognition which mi^t be accorded major design and construction functions Although the personnel situation in all three military Departments is intended to be mitigated somewhat by heavy reliance upon private architect-engineer organizations to perform the actual preparation of the master planning For example, i t is not unusual for the Master Planning Branch at a major Army installation to be led by a Civil Engineer, Grade GS-11, the qualifications for such a rating being that the engineer can apply "standard theory and practices to conventional projects or pieces of work" but defers decisions to higher authority on selection of courses of action when there are "critical or overriding problems (1) cost vs optimum technical solutions, (2)
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... documents, in reality the situation is not so mitigated Fees paid for such services are generally small, barely covering the costs of field inspection, cartographic drafting, and overlay and composite film preparation * I f comprehensive planning as defined herein is to receive the proper attention, then the funds for creating and maintaining comprehensive plans for the development of installations, need to be explicitly designated for that and no other purpose Considering the cost involved m the preparation of such plans, an increased level of funding needs to be budgeted to accomplish the expanded scope of planning described herein Accordingly, i t has been recommended that adequate funds for creating and maintaining comprehensive plans for the development of installations be authorized and appropriated annually as a separate item, usable only for the purpose of comprehensive planning Fees paid architect-engineers by one Corps of Engineers regional field office (U S Engineer District, Sacramento)
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... 2 3 1 3 Responsibility for Comprehensive Planning - The three miJitary Departments do not appear to have resolved the issue of whether the development of real property should be a part of the command function or should be a separate support function Strong argument is possible for either side On the one hand, there is the view that the military commander who is held responsible for achieving his mission assignments should be authorized to utilize his resources as necessary to achieve those mission assignments On the other hand, there is the view that, because of the relative permanence of real property, installation development should be accomplished separate from, but with obvious relation to, the command function The Committee believes that the present situation in the Army and the Air Force is not as conducive to sound comprehensive planning as it could be In the Army, for example, considerable difficulty I S being experienced in attracting qualified professionals into the RPM function because seemingly there I S no apparent room for professional growth Because of the protracted length of the military construction programming process (facilities requested by one installation commander are not likely to be ready for beneficial occupancy until after the tenure of the next commander begins) and because of the backlog of deferred essential maintenance, there is an almost constant need for the RPM forces to respond to routine and nonroutine maintenance and minor and emergency construction requests Moreover, because none of the Facilities Procurement Agents have lasting RPM involvement except m a general consultative fashion, the RPM function is not accorded full consideration in the real property development process The three military Departments need to give serious consideration to vesting, at some future date, responsibility for all aspects of real property development (except possible routine maantenance)

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