Installation Status Report

Abstract

The U.S. Army maintains more than 200 installations within the 50 states and another 95 overseas. However, money has been shifted from maintenance of facilities on these installations to training and the support of operations such as those currently under way in Bosnia. Some estimates are that there will be in excess of $5.1 billion in backlogged repair and maintenance projects on U.S. Army installations by the end of fiscal year 1997. Thus, the Installation Status Report (ISR) was developed to categorize installation facilities that were deficient, develop funding requests for Congress, and to allow the installations to better articulate their needs to the Department of the Army (DA). ISR results are used to provide a nontechnical evaluation of current installation readiness. This is significant in that it was developed to help policymakers to understand the status of the installations. The ISR has proven to be a major success. The DA has been able to use ISR to articulate the needs and costs to Congress, which has directly led to additional funding in critical areas such as family housing. This paper is written to present the ISR to civil engineers outside the military facilities management area. A system similar to ISR should have application for assessing the condition and estimating funding requirements for operation and maintenance of any large infrastructure system such as universities, cities, school districts, etc., and will also be discussed.