Planning, Design, Approval, and Implementation 2006 American Planning Association Conference

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Fort Meade Growth, BRAC and Howard County
Opportunities and Impacts 13 December 06
Kent Menser, Executive Director of BRAC Actions
Office of the County ExecutiveHoward County,
Maryland 410-313-3410
kmenser_at_co.ho.md.us
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Presentation Outline

• BRAC is Regional!
• Fort Meade History and Background
• What is the time frame of the Fort Meade BRAC?
• What will be the growth at Fort Meade?
• Who currently resides on Fort George G. Meade and
  who will be relocating to it?
• How is Howard County preparing for BRAC
  opportunities and impacts?
• How we will sustain a two way information flow
  with the residents and businesses of Howard
  County
• Questions and/or comments

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We Live, Work and Play in a Region. BRAC is
REGIONAL
Transportation Utilities Public Safety HL
Security Work Retail Housing Commuting Socializing
Recreation Higher Education
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What is the Fort Meade BRAC Schedule (Estimated-No
t Confirmed!)
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Unit Moves
DISA
Adjudication
Media
BRAC Military and GS Growth Employees and
Families
Hiring
Phased Moving by BRAC Related Employees
20 28 -98
8 37
1821 (Gain of Fort
Meade Military and GS Related Students)
Construction Schedule (tentative)
DISA
Adjudication
Media
Federal Planning Actions
BRAC Law Driven Actions
Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) Driven Growth
State Planning Actions
DBED Study
Regional/ Local Planning Actions
HOCO BRAC Task Force---BRAC Business Intelligence
Process
Anne Arundel County-Ft Meade Growth Committee

• DoD Report on Assistance to Local Educational
  Agencies for Defense Dependents Education
  (November 7, 2006) This does not include growth
  associated with Defense Contractors or NSA!

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Fort George G. Meade Proudly Serving the Nation
Since 1917
As a Mobilization Training Base for 4,000,000
men in World War II
As a POW Camp during World War II
As the Cold War home of Armored Cavalry and
Capital Defenders
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Fort George G. Meade Proudly Serving the Nation
Since 1917
Still Relevant Today Home of the 4th largest
workforce among Army installations in the U.S. A
preeminent intelligence and information center A
joint installation embracing all services and
several Federal Agencies
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Who Are the Current Fort Meade Tenants?
311th Signal Support Command (Army) 3d Training
Support Battalion (Marines) 48th Combat Support
Hospital (Army) 58th Signal Company (Army) 694th
Intelligence Group (Air Force) 704th Military
Intelligence Brigade (Army) 902d Military
Intelligence Group (Army)
308th Military Intelligence Battalion (Army) Army
Public Affairs Center Asymmetric Warfare Group
(Army) Defense Courier Service (Depart of
Defense) Defense Information School (Department
of Defense) First US Army-East
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Who are the Current Fort Meade
Tenants?
Northeast Region Defense Commissary (Department
of Defense) US Army Claims Service US Army Field
Band US Army Recruiting Battalion US Army Test
Measurement Diagnostic Equipment Support Lab US
Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive
Medicine

• Marine School Battalion
• Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center (Army)
• National Cryptologic Museum (Department of
  Defense)
• National Security Agency (Department of Defense)
• Naval Security Group Activity
• NCO Academy Detachment (Army)

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Fort George G. Meade

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Who Currently Works, Patronizes or Resides on
Fort Meade?

• Service members 10,564
• Civilian employees 21,129
• Contractors 5,853
• Family members 22,278
• Retirees 48,694
• Total People 108,518

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What Is the Total Projected Growth at Fort Meade
Over the Next 5 Years?

• Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 5,300
• National Security Agency 6,000 plus
• Other Organizations Outside of the BRAC Process
  2,000 plus
• Total Growth Approximately 14,000
• (Additional 10,000 w/Enhanced Use Leasing)

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Who Is Relocating to Fort Meade Under BRAC?

• Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
• 4272 Personnel/Positions
• Defense Media Publications Activities
• 607 Personnel/Positions
• Defense Military Department Adjudication
  Activities
• 951 Personnel/Positions

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DISA A Combat Support Agency

• Global DoD network voice, data, video
• Imagine, design, build, provision, sustain the
  Global Information Grid (GIG)
• Combat support data centers
• 16 in CONUS one each in Europe and the Pacific
• Logistics, finance, transportation, command and
  control
• Major joint acquisitions
• Net-Centric Enterprise Services
• Net-Enabled Command Capability
• GIG Bandwidth Expansion
• Systems development and support
• Global command and control, combat support,
  messaging
• Force provider to the JTF Global Network
  Operations
• DISA field offices with each Combatant Commander
• Presidential / White House support

6 billion (appropriated and reimbursable) 6600
people
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DISAs Global Presence
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DOHAS and CAFS

• Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA)
• Western Hearing Office, Woodland Hills, CA
• Personal Security Division, Columbus, OH
• Headquarters Arlington, VA
• Arizona Office, Phoenix, AZ
• Boston Hearing Office, Natick, MA.
• Air Force Central Adjudication Facility (CAF),
  Washington, DC
• Navy CAF, Washington, DC
• National Security Agency CAF, Linthicum, MD
• Washington Headquarters Service CAF, Arlington,
  VA
• Defense Intelligence Agency CAF, Washington, DC
• Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office,
  Columbus, OH

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Defense Media Agencies

• Soldiers Media Center (Alexandria, Fort Belvoir,
  and Crystal City, VA)
• Naval Media Center Anacostia Annex, DC
• Air Force News Service, Kelly AFB, San
  Antonio, TX (includes Army and Air Force Hometown
  News)
• Armed Forces Information Service Crystal City,
  VA 46 99 115 260

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What is the Impact of BRAC on the Region?

• 400M in new construction on Fort Meade
• 1 million square feet for DISA
• 250,000 square feet for Security Clearance
• 186,000 square feet for Media
• Additional 1B in annual economic impact
• Salaries 375M
• Contracts 550M
• Other 75M
• Increases total Fort Meade economic impact to 5B
  annually

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Additional Facts and Estimates on Growth of
Fort Meade

• Of the approximately 14,000 jobs/positions moving
  to Fort Meade, over 1500 are imbedded contractor
  personnel
• Less than 12 of the positions are military
• 85,000 is average pay per position The DISA
  average is 91,000
• Conservative estimate of new jobs (direct,
  indirect and induced) across Maryland over the
  next 6 years is 40,000 to 60,000.
• Estimated 2.260 BRAC related new jobs for Howard
  County
• Total regional personnel growth estimates run
  from 35,000 to 120,000
• Contactor jobs generally equal 1.5 to 2.0 times
  the number of direct jobs
• Over 2000 households will relocate to Howard
  County
• Anticipated construction of additional 21 million
  GSF of buildings and parking structures to
  provide working space for 49,000 personnel over
  50 years (FT Meade Comprehensive Master Plan)

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Howard County BRAC Organization
Office of the County Executive
Howard County Government Staff

• HC BRAC Executive Director
• Reports to the County Executive
• Facilitates both strategy formulation and
  execution process
• Explicitly manages strategy
• Links BRAC strategic planning to organizations
• management processes
• Communicates strategy to stakeholders
• Provides HC leadership with BRAC strategic
  perspective

• HC BRAC Task Force (27 11)
• Identify opportunities and challenges resulting
  
• from the expansion of Fort Meade
• Identify county infrastructure needs required to
• support the increased activities of the
  expansion
• Evaluate the ability of the county to take
• advantage of the opportunities and address
• the challenges of BRAC
• Make recommendations to the County Executive
• for appropriate ways to act on the
  opportunities
• and manage the challenges of BRAC

BRAC Requirements Committee
Howard County Requirements Committee
Resource Planning Committee
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HC BRAC TF Members (3 Dec 2006)

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How to contribute Interest verses Influence
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
2011 2012 2013
Influence Box
Needed Community Interest
Influence Planning
Typical project Interest
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BRAC and County Planning
BRAC Workforce Development Requirements
BRAC Housing Requirements
Current Regional and County Planning
BRAC Transportation Requirements
BRAC Community Requirements
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BRAC Challenge
State Planning
HC Community Needs
Culture and Values
Business Development
DOD Funds
BRAC Success
BRAC Families Needs
Improve Quality of Life
Political Support
BRAC Guidance
County Planning
Regional Planning
BRAC actions must be aligned with county
planning and available resources
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HOWARD COUNTY BRAC PLAN
Environmental Scanning
Evaluation and Control

External (BRAC REQ)

• Influenced By
• DOD BRAC
• OEA
• Other BRACs
• US Army BRAC
• Fort Meade
• State of MD
• Ft Meade Region
• HC Gov
• HC Gen Plan
• HC stakeholders
• Vision
• Our communities will be livable, safe and
  distinctive
• Mission Statement
• The mission of the Howard County BRAC Office and
  Task Force is to identify the impacts and
  opportunities of the 2005 Fort Meade BRAC action
  and recommend actions to the HC Executive

Opportunities Threats Determine and report
which specific factors in the 2005 BRAC Law that
may affect Howard County now or in the future

• Evaluation and Control
• Develop process by which activities and
  performance results are monitored..

• Goal
• Develop a process for planning and preparing HC
  to respond to the impacts opportunities of BRAC
• Objectives
• ID opportunities and challenges
• ID HC infrastructure needs
• Evaluate HC capabilities
• Make recommendations to the County Executive on
  actions to take
• Involve community stakeholders

• Establish HC TF to ID BRAC impacts make
  recommendations
• Establish HC Office of BRAC Strategy Management
  to oversee strategy formulation and
  implementation
• Implement and sustain a BRAC focused Business
  Intelligence (BI) process
• Apply lessons learned from other BRAC actions

• BRAC Director/TF Chairman reports to the County
  Exec
• BRAC Director has an oversight and coordination
  roll of all BRAC actions in the HCG, which links
  strategy with implementation
• BRAC planning will align with HC General Plan

Internal (HC REQ)

• Develop GP-based action and assessment plans
• Develop performance management plan
• Develop communications plan

Strengths Weaknesses Determine and report
current and future needs of Howard County that
BRAC may complement or exacerbate

• ID contract and administrative support reqs
• Submit budget
• Develop grant requests

See Action Plans.
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Local Elected Officials Residents of Howard
County Howard County Government Staff Howard
County Economic Develop. Office Howard County
Businesses Howard County Service
Organizations Howard County Public Schools Howard
County Community College Howard County
Hospital Association of Community
Services Columbia Association General Growth
BRAC Business Intelligence
L O C A L
Info Clearinghouse Integration Transformation Comm
unication
Anne Arundel Growth Management Comm. Ft. Meade
Alliance Economic Alliance of Greater
Baltimore Greater Baltimore Committee Southern
Maryland Navy Alliance Harford County Economic
Development Laurel City Baltimore
County Baltimore City Army Alliance (Aberdeen)
BWI Business Partnership Carroll County Maryland
Business Council
R E G I O N A L
Howard County BRAC Office

• Howard County Leadership Decision Box
• Government
• (General Plan)
• Community Org
• Businesses
• Residents
• Other

• Howard County Staff Actions
• Transportation
• Affordable H.
• Workforce Dev
• Community Spt

Communications Methodologies (CM) To move
Actionable Information to Users
Howard County Government
BRAC Office and Support Structure (TF)
CM
CM
State Elected Officials Department of Business
Economic Dev Maryland Military Installation
Council Department of Planning Department of
Transportation Department of the
Environment Department of Housing Community
Dev. Department of Labor Licensing
Reg. Department of Education

CM
S T A T E
Mgt. Console Policy Implementation Strategic
Thinking (P) Oversight
Federal Elected Officials Fort Meade Commander
and Staff DOD Office of Economic Adjustment
Department o Education Department of
Labor Department of Commerce
F E D
Policy Influence, Performance Assessment, Org.
Accountability, Feedback
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Current HC Issues and BRAC

• Infrastructure
• Columbia Downtown
• Route 1 Corridor
• Transportation
• Schools
• Affordable Housing
• Community Services
• Current Planning Forecasts

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Two Way Communications With the Public
Complete Transparency

• Task Force Meetings
• 5 Completed
• Next meeting January 2007
• BRAC Executive Director Updates
• BRAC Forum 4th Wednesday of each month in Howard
  Building
• Presentations to community and business
  organizations
• 35 Completed
• 3 Scheduled
• 12 Office Calls
• BRAC Page on Howard County Website
• GTV Weekly Spots and Probe
• Newspaper articles
• Commercial TV Interviews
• BRAC information email distribution list (350)

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Kent D. Menser kmenser_at_co.ho.md.us 410-313-3410
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