Future of Air Bases

Base realignment was thought to be a method by which to generate future savings, but the approach of simply transferring assets to local communities while constructing new facilities to realign assets to other locations chewed away at any potential savings preventing long-term savings from materializing. What is needed is a revolutionary approach to reengineer not our business processes (AFSO-21), but more our future basing methods to free up and unlock the value of our assets for liquidation and generate efficiencies that reduce budget layouts rather than continue to increase future budgets. Past approaches to basing have been incremental rather than revolutionary. Many of our current Air Force bases are locations decided upon from the result of the Indian wars, while the locations of other bases were simply the result of inheritance from the Army following World War II.