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Our Projects
Our projects are designed to assist states and local governments in supporting the military mission.
Below is a list of projects the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation funded in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 through 2025.
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State
Installations
Program Area
Federal Grant Award
AR
Pine Bluff Arsenal
Installation Readiness
$406,800.00
Enables the City of White Hall, in partnership with Pine Bluff Arsenal and the surrounding metropolitan area to assess off-post infrastructure systems, utilities, mass communication, and surface road access that are impacted by extreme weather events. These systems will be further tested through a tabletop exercise that will include representatives from the Arsenal, city, county, State and Federal partners. This planning effort enhances the lethality of the installation?s mission to support and sustain munition, chemical/biological defense and textile readiness of America?s Joint Warfighters.
TX
Naval Air Station Kingsville
Installation Readiness
$947,565.00
Enables the County of McMullen to plan and design 12 miles of improvements along an unimproved, rural road, which is the single access road to the McMullen Range and the Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar - Texas complex. This effort supports the Secretary of War's priority of reestablishing deterrence through enhancing capabilities at the only United States-based radar system in USSOUTHCOM?s surveillance architecture; enhances detection and surveillance capabilities along the southern border; and strengthens mission readiness and lethality at Naval Air Station Kingsville.
GU
Military Installations in Guam
Growth
$4,198,000.00
Enables informed, whole-of-island leadership and coordinated village-level action to support the Department of War?s Pacific Defense Initiative by strengthening civilian infrastructure, governance capacity, and strategic communications across Guam?s 19 Villages, ensuring military readiness, resilient logistics and emergency response, and transparent public engagement in a high-threat environment, thereby reinforcing national security objectives and enhancing U.S. regional deterrence in the Indo-Pacific.
FL
MacDill Air Force Base
Public Schools on Military Installations
$86,374,326.00
MacDill Air Force Base, FL is constructing a new Tinker Elementary/Middle School as part of the Department of War Public Schools on Military InstallationsProgram. Tinker Elementary/Middle School is being built using over $86.3M in DOD PSMI funding while leveraging over $21.5M in non-federal matching funds contributed by non-DOD sources, in response to SECDEF priorities by supporting the readiness of our warfighters and their families. The school will directly benefit over 700 students, while vastly improving the military family quality of life and enhancing lethality and readiness by improving the retention rates of the U.S. Central Command, the U.S. Special Operations Command and MacDill Air Force Base.
FL
Homestead Air Reserve Base
Installation Readiness
$315,000.00
Enables Miami-Dade County to evaluate solutions to improve the readiness of Homestead Air Reserve Base by assessing ongoing flooding issues on SW 288th Street and SW 137th Avenue created by extreme weather events that constrains the operations of the 482nd Fighter Wing. This effort supports the Secretary of War?s priorities by ensuring the lethality of the installation's mission to support and sustain airfield operations and Special Operations in support of U.S. Southern Command.
IN
Naval Support Activity Crane
Installation Readiness
$438,982.00
Enables the Southern Indiana Development Commission, in collaboration with the Uplands Science and Technology Foundation, to design a solution to remove the Town of Crane from Naval Support Activity Crane's wastewater system therefore expanding the installation's capacity to expand mission and prevent interruptions of service due to wastewater overflows brought on by heavy rainfall events. This effort supports the Secretary of War?s priorities by ensuring the lethality of the installation's mission to support and sustain ammunition management activities and development of next generation technology for the fleet in Strategic Systems and for Expeditionary Warfare.
CO
Air Force Academy
Public Schools on Military Installations
$3,113,389.00
The United States Air Force Academy, CO is completing the design of Douglass Valley K-8 School as part of the Department of War Public Schools on Military InstallationsProgram. Douglass Valley K-8 School was designed using over $3.1M in DOD PSMI funding while leveraging over $770K in non-federal matching funds contributed by non-DOD sources, in response to SECDEF priorities by supporting the readiness of our warfighters and their families. The school design is intended to benefit over 320 students, while vastly improving the military family quality of life and enhancing lethality and readiness by improving the retention rates at the United States Air Force Academy.
AK
Eielson Air Force Base
Defense Community Infrastructure Program
$13,043,436.00
Enables Golden Valley Electric Association, Inc. to undertake a project to construct a new switching substation, upgrade an existing substation, and improve communication systems for Eielson Air Force Base. This effort supports the Secretary of War's priorities by ensuring the readiness and lethality of the installation.
HI
Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam
Installation Readiness
$2,444,172.00
FY25 Grant Award
AR
Ebbing Air National Guard Base
Community Noise Mitigation Program
$2,112,843.00
Enables the City of Fort Smith, in partnership with Fort Smith Public Schools to undertake the installation of noise mitigating insulation at Carnall Elementary School, Arkansas that is impacted by fixed-wing military aviation noise from Ebbing Air National Guard Base. The project will significantly reduce the noise impacts on the affected school and lessen deviations to the military training routes used by the F-35 training center for the Foreign Military Sales, supporting our partner nations strengthening U.S. national security and promoting world peace.