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Mark Begich: “Cost savings have not always been realized when anticipated in previous Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) rounds, and…”

On the recordSeptember 27, 2010
Cost savings have not always been realized when anticipated in previous Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) rounds, and sometimes not at all, so why would the Department assume cost estimates associated with infrastructure initiatives would be realistic?
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Mark Begich
Democratic · Alaska

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Questioning the reliability of cost estimates for military infrastructure initiatives.

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