A Letter from the Governor
Welcome to the Maryland Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) website. Maryland is privileged to take a greater role in the defense of our nation and is proud to support our nation’s military and homeland security efforts.
In the coming years, Maryland will experience the largest job growth at any one time since the end of World War II. As many as 60,000 new direct, indirect, and induced jobs will be created in Maryland as a result of the BRAC Commission’s 2005 decisions. As such, Maryland and its citizens are eager and ready to support the mission of the U.S. Department of Defense and the people and families associated with this decision.
In partnership with the Legislature, Maryland created the Governor’s Subcabinet on BRAC, which is comprised of heads of Maryland’s departments and agencies that are most involved in the State’s BRAC-related activities. With Lt. Governor Anthony Brown as Chair, the mission of this Subcabinet to ensure that Maryland develops the adequate infrastructure, provides suitable and responsive workforce training, and identifies the business opportunities to come, while preserving and protecting the quality of life that we enjoy in Maryland. As a state, we have led a successful BRAC at the Patuxent Naval Air Station during the 1990s, and I am confident that we will meet with continued success as we enter our newest BRAC process.
Maryland is ready to meet the challenges associated with BRAC 2005 and to embrace each and every opportunity that BRAC presents to the citizens of Maryland.
