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1 The Purpose of and Need for This Report
Pages 11-19

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From page 11...
... This wisdom can be applied to investment strategies for this architecture, or more broadly, to renewal strategies for federal facilities. This report introduces a bold, new perspective on how federal agencies can use facility asset management to support mission achievement more efficiently and effectively.
From page 12...
... Of interest to the FFC is how facility managers can secure the capital funds necessary to fulfill major facility renewal projects. The FFC requested that this committee be formed to identify broad-based, practical, and compelling strategies for securing continuing investment in the renewal of federal real properties and portfolios.
From page 13...
... The report's overarching objective is to share industry advancements in asset management system thinking that will influence new policies, practices, and behaviors critical to improving facility portfolios and, thus, agency mission achievement. The report's simple objective is to help each federal agency ensure and assure that every facility dollar spent supports and improves agency mission achievement effectively and efficiently.
From page 14...
... This approach elevates federal facility renewal strategies into an overarching policy that guides resource-and-investment decision making across the agency's whole facility portfolio, whole facility life cycles, and whole mission sets. This report offers recommendations for requirements identification; fiscal risk management planning; practices for measuring the actual (as opposed to projected)
From page 15...
... Following advice from the FFC, the committee defines facility renewal as "sustaining an asset's current functionality and extending functionality beyond its expected service life through significant renovation, replacement, or repurposing." All assets eventually require reinvestment to adapt to changing times, missions, and operational requirements. Given fiscal constraints, federal agencies typically focus on sustainment funding to keep infrastructure running, rather than optimizing investments for continued mission achievement.
From page 16...
... For those facilities leased by federal agencies, these annual operating costs include the lease annual rent to lessor and the lease annual operating and maintenance costs. Besides the cost of operations, as noted later in this chapter, federal investment costs are also required to renew federal facilities in order to meet current and future agency needs.
From page 17...
... 2016a FY2016 Owned Leased Otherwise Managedb Total Buildings Total Number 232,419 19,404 15,304 267,127 Total Square Feet 2,368,129,721 280,103,254 122,135,363 2,770,368,339 Total Annual Operating Costs $11,507,899,223 $7,284,160,244 $514,369,635 $19,306,429,102 Structures Total Number 415,146 3,449 77,579 496,174 Total Annual Operating Costs $6,230,950,083 $59,135,377 $95,998,804 $6,386,084,265 Landc Total Acres 19,602,337 1,328,020 21,413,159 42,343,516 Total Annual Operating Costs $124,878,776 $50,728,233 $180,546 $175,787,555 AOCd Total Annual Operating Costs $17,863,728,082 $7,394,023,854 $610,548,985 $25,868,300,921 (Buildings, Structures, Land) a All real property data from the Chief Financial Officers Act; agencies are required to submit data to the Federal Real Property Portfolio (FRPP)
From page 18...
... Direct Federal Programs 2018 2019 2020 Major Public Physical Investment Construction and Rehabilitation National Defense: Military Construction and Family Housing 10,256 11,339 16,472 Atomic Energy Defense Activities and Other 1,411 1,820 1,936 Subtotal, National Defense 11,667 13,159 18,408 Non-defense: International Affairs 1,885 1,373 1,090 General Science, Space, and Technology 2,006 1,965 2,011 Other Natural Resources and Environment 2,090 1,742 1,529 Energy 2,320 2,005 3,209 Postal Service 662 857 958 Transportation 200 791 590 Veterans Hospitals and Other Health Facilities 4,389 6,189 4,643 Administration of Justice 3,186 3,660 3,331 GSAa Real Property Activities 1,539 1,851 986 Other Construction 5,283 4,203 3,322 Subtotal, Non-defense 23,560 24,636 21,669 Total, Direct Federal Spending 35,227 37,795 40,077 aGSA = General Services Administration. NOTE: Non-defense totals exclude budget authority information for water resource projects.
From page 19...
... Chapter 6 identifies innovative funding strategies that can be applied to support an agency's renewal strategy. Finally, Chapter 7 presents the committee's conclusions and recommendations.


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