BRAC Attribute Analysis

In 2005, the Department of Defense completed its fifth round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). This process involved analytically determining the military value (MV) of an installation and then ranking all installations based on MV scores. These rankings were used to determine which installations would be closed or realigned, subject to meeting minimum Army requirements for maintaining certain functions. In 2005, the MV score for an installation was derived as a weighted sum of the installation’s score over a set of forty attributes. This paper describes the methods we used in analyzing these attributes, our goal being to identify the attributes that had the greatest impact on the installation rankings. From our analysis, we developed recommendations on which attributes should be kept for future BRAC proceedings, as well as those that could be considered for revision.