by ADC | Jan 23, 2020 | DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
The Wichita Falls City Council signed off on a contract renewal this week for Balfour Beatty Communities to continue providing municipal services to more than 600 military homes near and on Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, the Times Record News reported. The contract...
by ADC | Jan 21, 2020 | DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
A tentative agreement between Fort Knox, Ky., and nearby Hardin Co. for the county to manage the base’s refuse services will bring $200,000 in additional revenue to the county and save the installation another $200,000 on top of that, The Elizabethtown News Enterprise...
by ADC | Jan 13, 2020 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
The Hawaii Air National Guard will start recruiting for an 88-member Space Force squadron, AP reported…. The New Mexico Environment Department is fining the Air Force almost $1.7 million for groundwater contamination near Cannon Air Force Base, AP reported…. Fort Hood...
by defensecomm | Jan 1, 2020 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
Up to four million new customers have access to on-base exchanges and commissaries after a new change in federal law. Exchanges, commissaries and some recreational facilities are now accessible by disabled veterans, Purple Heart recipients, former prisoners of war and...
by defensecomm | Dec 19, 2019 | DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
A nonprofit wants to build a monument to women veterans in Pensacola, Fla., The Pensacola News Journal reported. The group, Monument to Women Veterans, is trying to raise $2 million for the project, which will also include coworking space for veterans…. Members of the...
by defensecomm | Dec 18, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
Congress and President Trump are expected to enact a spending bill that will provide $50 million for the first-ever investment in the Defense Community Infrastructure Program (DCIP). On Base asked ADC President Joe Driskill about the significance of the measure. What...
by defensecomm | Dec 18, 2019 | DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
The Redstone Arsenal community in Alabama is one of seven pilot areas for a new Army Enterprise mobile app to announce road closures and gate changes and even offer coupons for on-base services, Rocket City Now reported…. A new renewal energy microgrid at Joint Base...
by defensecomm | Dec 15, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) is promoting Naval Station Everett, Wash., as the “ideal” location for future Navy and Coast Guard homeporting. Larsen makes the case in a new report. “Naval Station Everett is still ‘the Sailor’s Choice,’ but I am working to make it...
by defensecomm | Dec 13, 2019 | Congress/DoD, DC360, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
At a Pentagon ceremony, the Army Community Partnership Program honored partnerships in Arizona, California, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Texas and Virginia. “The fence line has become the front line,” Alex Beehler, assistant secretary of the Army for...
