Not managing DOD realty

The Department of Defense manages 557,000 facilities valued at about $828 billion as of September 30, 2012. However, it has no strategic plan to manage these facilities. It has no department-wide goals, strategies to achieve the goals, or metrics to gauge progress for how it intends to manage its real property in the most efficient manner. As a result, it can't intelligently reduce excess inventory because it does not maintain accurate and complete data on the utilization of its facilities in its Real Property Assets Database. There are many facilities that are not used or not used very much. Yet, DOD has difficulty identifying these situations. If they could do so, the savings would be in the billions.