Current Project:
Joint Land Use Study Program(revised 7/3/08)

Client/Funder:

Office of Economic Adjustment, U.S. Department of Defense

Purpose and Scope:

Limitations on the ability of the military Services to sustain their readiness to defend the country and the nation’s global interests have presented an increasingly significant problem for DoD as encroachment on its once-isolated installations intensifies.  Historically focused on noise and safety issues as civilian communities grew closer to the installations, encroachment concerns now increasingly involve more complex technological and environmental issues and the expansion of military activities into civilian areas. Since 1985, JLUS has provided funding and technical assistance to communities to help them identify and address encroachment issues. In recent years, the military Services, as directed by DoD, also have developed encroachment prevention programs, tasked with identifying current and future issues, developing plans to address them, and conducting outreach and coordination efforts to improve understanding of readiness needs and promote mission sustainability.

OEA asked the Academy to work with it to develop a new vision for JLUS in 2010 and beyond. In Phase 1 of the study the Academy and OEA developed specific goals and plans for the more detailed Phase 2 effort now underway. The Academy Panel is working with OEA to: (1) identify and assess future directions and options for the JLUS program, (2) improve OEA’s ability to achieve its mission of serving the needs of the military Services, DoD, and civilian communities, and (3) ensure that OEA is most effectively positioned within DoD to work with other sustainability efforts to jointly accomplish its mission.
 
In carrying out this study, the Panel will have discussions with DoD and Service headquarters officials responsible for readiness and installation management, as well as those implementing the encroachment prevention programs. The Panel will also meet with stakeholder groups representing states and communities, and a host of other stakeholders, including environmentalists. Discussions will also be held with military and civilian officials on and around selected military facilities to obtain a local perspective on the issues studied.

Project Director: 

Bruce McDowell

The Academy plans to appoint the following individuals to a Panel to oversee and direct the study.  The public may comment by email on the composition and qualifications of the Panel for a period of seven days after the posted date.  Send comments to mditmeyer@napawash.org.

Panel Members:

David John Berteau, (Chair)*—Consultant, Clark and Weinstock. Former Director, National Security Studies, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University; Senior Vice President and Operations Manager, Science Applications International Corporation. Former positions with the U.S. Department of Defense: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Production and Logistics; Deputy Assistant Secretary, Resource Management and Support; Executive Secretary, President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission).

            Disclosure Statement:

            Prior responsibilities relevant to the work of this Panel:

I am now a consultant with a private company involved in Defense Department installation issues.  Personally, I have no present involvement in Defense installation issues.  Highlights of my prior involvement follow:

1. From April 1986 until early January 1990, I was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Resource Management and Support.  The Office of Economic Adjustment reported directly to me for that entire period.  Joint Land Use Studies were in their early stages during this period, and few JLUS issues rose to my attention.
2. From January 1990 until late September 1993, I was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics.  As such, I was responsible for oversight of the military construction budget and program, the Defense Base Closure Account, environmental remediation funding, and a number of other programs and policies that affected the OEA operating environment.  OEA did not report to me or my organization within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, but I consulted with OEA as needed, primarily on base closure and reuse issues rather than JLUS topics.
3. I left the Defense Department on September 25, 1993.  During the 1990s, as an executive with Science Applications International Corporation, I was engaged in business activity that occasionally had connections to OEA.  Two such occasions included consulting to the City of Indianapolis regarding the closure and reuse of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Indianapolis, and Fauquier County, VA, regarding reuse planning for Vint Hill Farm Station.  To the best of my knowledge, neither case involved any Joint Land Use Study.
4. During the 2005 round of base closures, my current firm of Clark & Weinstock was engaged to advise the California Governor’s office on base closures.  This advisory service included one or two meetings in Sacramento with OEA.
5. As a former Presidential Management Intern (now Presidential Management Fellow), I regularly mentor and advise PMFs in the Department of Defense.  Some of these fellows have worked for OEA.

In summary, I have considerable experience with OEA but no fundamental or discernible biases about the JLUS program.  I plan to approach this study by learning more about the current status of the JLUS program as well as the policy and organizational environment within which it is operating, potential future changes in this environment, and the views of a wide range of the program’s stakeholders, interested parties, and my fellow members of the Academy Panel.

Larry E. Byrne* —President, Byrne and Associates. Former Chief Information Officer and Assistant Administrator for Management, U.S. Agency for International Development; National Practice Director, Hay Group, Inc.; Director of Personnel Evaluation, U.S. Department of Energy; Assistant to the President for Personnel, Finance and Administration, The White House; Director, Personnel Systems and Payroll, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Executive Director, Inspector General's Office, U.S. Department of Energy.

John J. Callahan* —Former Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Acting Commissioner, U.S. Social Security Administration. Former positions with the U.S. Senate: Chief of Staff to Senator Jim Sasser; Deputy Staff Director, Senate Budget Committee; Staff Director, Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Federalism, and the District of Columbia; Staff Director, Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations; Director of Federal-State Relations; Executive Director, Legislators' Education Action Project.

Stephen (Tim) Honey*—Former Executive Director, Sister Cities International. Former Director, Smart Growth Center, Eastern Research Group; City Manager, City of Boulder, Colorado; Director, Graduate Program of Public Policy and Management, and Vice President for Development and External Affairs, University of Southern Maine; Executive Director, Housing Finance Agency,  State of Rhode Island; Deputy City Manager and City Manager, City of Portland, Maine.

Gregory Lashutka*—Senior Vice President for Corporate Relations, Nationwide. Former Mayor and City Attorney, City of Columbus, Ohio; Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P.; Associate Attorney, Cameron & Cameron; Legislative Aide to U.S. Congressman Samuel Devine; Law Clerk to Judge Richard B. Metcalf.

Mitchell Rice*—Professor of Political Science and Director, Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. Former Associate Professor and Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Assistant Professor and Associate Professor, Southwest Texas State University.

Jacqueline H. Rogers*—Senior Fellow, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland College Park. Former Secretary of Housing and Community Development, State of Maryland. Former positions with Montgomery County, Maryland: Director, Office of Management and Budget; Director, Department of Housing and Community Development; Director of Community Development.

Gerald E. Galloway, Jr. —Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and an Affiliate Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland College Park; Visiting Scholar, US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources; consultant. Retired Brigadier General, US Army. Former positions include Vice President, Geospatial Strategies, for the ES3 Sector, Titan Corporation; Secretary of the US Section of the International Joint Commission (dealing with transboundary air and water quality issues with Canada).

*Academy Fellow

Meetings:

Meeting 1: Novmeber 13, 2007 (Meeting open to public)

Meeting 2: December 3, 2007 (Meeting open to public)

Meeting 3: February 25, 2008 - 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Meeting closed)

Meeting 4:  April 3, 2008 (by conference call)

Meeting 5: May 27-28, 2008 - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Meeting open to public)

Meeting 6: June 18-19, 2008 - 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (June 18 meeting open to the public; June 19 meeting closed)

Meeting 7:  August 4-5, 2008 - 9:00 – 5:00*

Meeting 8:  September 16-17, 2008 (Oceana), (Meeting closed)

Meeting 9:  November 17-18, 2008*

Meeting 10:  January 8-9, 2009*

*Whether the meeting or portions of the meeting will be closed to the public will be posted 7 days prior to the meeting date.

Contact Information:

For further information, contact Marty Ditmeyer at (202) 347-3190, or at mditmeyer@napawash.org.