A much-needed process to shutter unnecessary military bases might finally see the light of day. With Senators John McCain and Jack Reed recently signaling a willingness to consider the prospect, it seems the long-overdue next round of BRAC might move closer to becoming a reality. This is particularly troublesome given those two services have $36 billion in collective maintenance backlogs, a problem savings from BRAC could go a long way toward alleviating. The last round of BRAC in 2005 was unusually expensive, leading to accusations from Congress that the closure’s cost-savings were overstated. For more than a decade now, attempts to reauthorize BRAC have been as fruitless as Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the mountain, only to see it roll back down again.

Source: Forbes March 08, 2017 18:50 UTC