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DoD Should Establish An Installation Management Agency

Table of Contents

Impact of IMCOM on Installations3

Director, IMCOM Input3

Former Garrison Commanders Input3

Organization5

Funding7

Standardization of Installation Support8

Why Installation Manaciement?9

Establishment of Installation Manaciement10

Establishment of Reciions for Installation Management12

Issues in Standinci up the Installation Manaciement Aciency13

Installation Management in 200213

Installation ManaQement in 200314

Installation Man a jement in 200416

Installation Man aQement in 200517

Installation Manaciement in 200619

Becoming the Installation Management Command — 200621

Chancie in Reciions Desicination/Re-Orcianization22

Installation ManaQement Command in 200722

Findings/Recommendations23

Endnotes26

DoD Should Establish An Installation Management Agency

Manage DoD installations to support readiness and mission execution — provide equitable services and facilities, optimize resources, sustain the environment and enhance the well-being of the Military community.

Impact of IMCOM on Installations

In reconstructing the evolvement of the Installation Management Command (IMCOM), it is best to look at it from the perspectives of some of those directly involved from the beginning, examine DoDs thoughts while instituting IMCOM and IMCOMs own retrospective through the years. As you will see, IMCOM is not without its rough spots or its highlights.

Director, IMCOM Input

The current Executive Director of IMCOM indicates the biggest issue/obstacle in standing up the agency is the “culture” change.” “The DoD had been managing installations in a decentralized fashion for many years. Taking the authority away from Major Commands and Senior Mission Commanders made it difficult to get started. Also, due to the same issues, the manpower and funding that was being spent was not transferred to IMA so we could continue at the same service level going in. That has been verified in a recent study that validated that IMCOM only received approximately two-thirds of the money that Major Commands had been spending on installations.”

Former Garrison Commanders Input

The documented history of Installation Management Command presents a rosy picture. The following input was requested and received from a former Garrison Commander concerning Installation Management Command and the impact it had on his performance.

Funding. “Given that we always seem to operate in a 'resource constrained environment' funding for installation operations were 'fenced' from mission commanders. Base Operations Support (BOS) and Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization (SRM) funds were fenced but at the DA level, they were reduced in order to resource Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism requirements. Just as we were going into what had been promised as a benefit, garrison commanders found themselves cutting services due to budget reductions both current and anticipated. With the continuation of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism, there have been few discernable changes in management at the garrison level. There were no additional base operations support or SRM funds allocated for Installation Management Command and the perception (in fact, the 'promise' was) that there would be no reductions in resourcing from previous years. This proved not to be the case.

A most recent example of funding issues is the situation with Medical Hold Company billets at Walter Reed DoD Medical Center. Base Operations Support/SRM funding reductions result in fewer available dollars for commanders, necessitating hard ...