Federal Assistance Coordination
Funding from the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation is often used to prepare an economic recovery strategy that serves as a blueprint for other Federal, state, and local funding. The Office works with communities to make introductions to other agencies, explain processes, and help smooth the transition.
Economic Adjustment Committee
To ensure coordination between agencies, Executive Order 12788, as amended, instituted the Defense Economic Adjustment Program (DEAP) and the Economic Adjustment Committee. The DEAP assists seriously affected states, communities, businesses, and workers in responding to Department of Defense changes.
The Economic Adjustment Committee is comprised of 22 Federal departments and agencies at the Cabinet level, that work together to coordinate technical and financial assistance, providing communities access to the full complement of Federal government resources. The Director of the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation is the Executive Director of the Economic Adjustment Committee.
Specifically, the Economic Adjustment Committee:
- Coordinates Federal interagency and intergovernmental assistance to help states and communities respond to defense-triggered economic impacts;
- Develops procedures that assist affected states and locales;
- Provides a clearinghouse for information exchange among Federal, state, and local officials involved in economic adjustment activities. These resources touch beneficiaries from the Federal level to the individual citizens impacted by defense downsizing or growth resulting from base closures, realignments, mission growth, and similar defense adjustments;
Members of the Economic Adjustment Committee can assist states, communities, businesses and workers with a myriad of technical and financial assistance requirements to include: grants, loan guarantees, strategic outreach, and public benefit conveyance (sponsorship for transfer of surplus Federal property to eligible state and local governments for public purpose).
The Economic Adjustment Committee
The Economic Adjustment Committee includes the following individuals, or their designees:
- Secretary of Agriculture (link to: https://www.usda.gov/)
- Attorney General (link to: https://www.justice.gov/)
- Secretary of Commerce (link to: https://www.commerce.gov/)
- Secretary of Defense (link to: https://www.defense.gov/)
- Secretary of Education (link to: https://www.ed.gov/)
- Secretary of Energy (link to: https://www.energy.gov/)
- Secretary of Health and Human Services (link to: https://www.hhs.gov/)
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (https://www.hud.gov/)
- Secretary of Interior (link to: https://www.doi.gov/)
- Secretary of Labor (link to: https://www.dol.gov/)
- Secretary of State (https://www.state.gov/)
- Secretary of Transportation (link to: https://www.transportation.gov/)
- Secretary of Treasury (link to: https://home.treasury.gov/)
- Secretary of Veterans Affairs (link to: https://www.va.gov/)
- Secretary of Homeland Security (link to: https://www.dhs.gov/)
- Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (link to: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/)
- Director of the Office of Management and Budget (link to: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/)
- Director of the Office of Personnel Management (link to: https://www.opm.gov/)
- Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (link to: (link to: https://www.epa.gov/)
- Administrator of General Services (link to: https://www.gsa.gov/)
- Administrator of the Small Business Administration (link to: https://www.sba.gov/)
- Postmaster General (link to: https://www.usps.com/)