The most serious maintenance backlogs were in buildings used for supply, administration, operations and training, maintenance and production, and troop housing and food services. Image: Roca Mharas/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffThe Army is facing a deferred maintenance backlog of some $19 billion for buildings under its control, while renovating and modernizing those buildings within their current footprint to “provide users with the capability to fulfill their missions: would cost an additional $34 billion, the CBO has said.
It says the Army and its reserve components have more than nearly 150,000 buildings in active use, plus some 50,000 that are active or excess. In a sample of 49,000, CBO found that the average age was 47 years, on average about 10 years longer than the intended useful life.
The most serious maintenance backlogs were in buildings used for supply, administration, operations and training, maintenance and production, and troop housing and food services, said a presentation prepared for an industry conference.
The CBO’s work follows recent testimony by GAO before the Senate saying that DoD as a whole faces $137 billion in deferred facility maintenance costs—and at least $91 billion in future environment liability costs. By prioritizing mission-critical facilities, it added, lower-priority facilities such as housing and childcare centers “are chronically neglected and experience increased deterioration.”
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