DOD says it’s saving hundreds of millions of dollars because of joint basing; GAO remains unconvince

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DOD says it’s saving hundreds of millions of dollars because of joint basing; GAO remains unconvinced
By Adam Ashton
Staff writer
September 28, 2014

Four years in, the Defense Department is struggling to persuade government auditors that it’s saving money from the round of military installation mergers that created Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

The Pentagon claims streamlined operations at the nation’s 12 joint bases save $255 million a year in reduced expenses — tens of millions of dollars more than the Defense Department initially projected when Congress bought into the plan.

But the Government Accountability Office isn’t ready to take the Pentagon at its word.

A GAO analysis released this month concludes those reduced expenses might not be attributable to the merged operations. Instead, the lowered operating costs might reflect military belt-tightening as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan come to an end.

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Here's the GAO report: http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/665964.pdf

Did you we have a Joint Region Marianas on Guam?