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Stakeholder Engagement

The Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation furthers the priorities of the National Defense Strategy by supporting civilian efforts that enhance the readiness and lethality of military installations, ranges, and test facilities. This in turn helps support our defense communities and the service members and families that reside within them.

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As a Defense Field Activity, the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation works to augment and support capabilities within states and communities to support the needs of the Secretary of Defense. This means assisting affected state and local governments to “help themselves” respond to Defense program changes, to include helping communities and installations plan and carry out strategies, engage with and leverage private sector partnerships, and expand interagency collaboration and coordination. 

Through a whole of government approach, interagency coordination ensures that an optimal level of assistance is provided to support local efforts that support and enable our warfighter while also furthering the lethality and readiness of the defense mission.

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Economic Adjustment Committee

To ensure coordination between agencies, Executive Order 12788, as amended, instituted the Defense Economic Adjustment Program and the Economic Adjustment Committee. The Defense Economic Adjustment Program assists seriously affected states, communities, businesses, and workers in responding to Department of Defense changes.

The Economic Adjustment Committee (EAC) 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 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 includes the following individuals, or their designees:

Federal Partners

The Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation works with interagency partners throughout various program lines. These partnerships allow for grantees to work collaboratively with federal experts in the drafting and execution of grants projects. 

Non-Governmental Organization

The Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation also works with governors, mayors, state legislators, county officials, and governmental associations to identify challenges on the ground and implement strategies that best meet the specific needs in their state and region.  There is rarely a “one size fits all” approach of how to support military bases, missions, and the defense industrial base.  Our office works with elected, public, and private sector partners across the nation to identify what they can do to support the national defense mission and the needs of our warfighters.