About BRAC
Base Realignment and Closure, or “BRAC,” is the process the Department of Defense uses to reorganize its installation infrastructure to more efficiently and effectively support its forces, increase operational readiness, create synergy among missions, and facilitate new ways of doing business.
In September 2005, the BRAC 2005 Commission recommended that the Department of Defense (DOD) close Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and realign most of its technical functions to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, as one of 182 recommendations in the 2005 base realignment actions specified in the recommendation within the statutory 6-year implementation period ending September 15, 2011.
Fort Monmouth currently hosts organizations that perform research, development and acquisition of the Army’s command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems.
Almost all the authorized C4ISR positions which currently involve about 4400 federal government civilian positions and about 200 military positions are transferring to Aberdeen Proving Ground as part of the BRAC recommendation.
About one-third of the current C4ISR workforce consists of scientists and engineers, with logistics, contracting, and business occupations constituting most of the federal government civilian workforce. Clerks and administrative assistant positions constitute about 5 percent of the workforce. The workforce is further supplemented by about 1,600 embedded contractor employees and more than 1,000 contractor employees located off the installation.
... And Beyond
The conference will introduce Delaware businesses and its citizens to one evolving regional opportunity that will continue long after the BRAC transition is completed in September 2011. NASA Wallops Island and the MARS Project in Chincoteague, Virginia, is one of those expanding regional opportunities.
You might be surprised to hear how SpacePort Support Systems, Inc. of Selbyville, Delaware and a number of other Delaware based companies and residents are actively supporting the Mid-Atlantic Regional SpacePort project. This project will be responsible for resupplying the International Space Station starting in 2011. Come and hear about this exciting, expanding regional opportunity.
Who is relocating to Aberdeen Proving Ground ?
Team C4ISR
Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command (Ft. Monmouth, NJ)
Communications-Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center (Ft. Monmouth, NJ)
Information Systems Development and Acquisition (Redstone Arsenal, AL)
Procurement management/support for Depot Level Reparables (Ft. Huachuca, AZ)
ATEC-AEC
Army Test & Evaluation Command Headquarters (Alexandria, VA)
Elements of the Army Evaluation Center (Alexandria, VA)
Others
Army Research Laboratory Vehicle Technology Directorate (Columbus, OH / Langley, VA)
Army Research Institute Human Systems Research (Ft. Knox, KY)
Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense (Falls Church, VA)
Air Force Non-Medical Chem-Bio Defense Development & Acquisition (Brooks City Base, TX)
Chem-Bio Defense Research, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (Ft. Belvoir, VA)
Medical Chemical Defense Research from Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
(Forest Glen Annex, MD)
By its very nature, the BRAC process is complex. As such, the Army faces several significant challenges in hiring a projected 3,700 federal government civilian employees to fully constitute its expected workforce authorization of about 5,100 civilian’s engineers with technical expertise. The Army expects that about 2200 of these new employees will not be hired until after the slated closure of Fort Monmouth and transfer of functions to Aberdeen Proving Ground in 2011.