G-9 Vision: Professional experts championing Installation Enterprise Readiness and delivering unmatched Quality of Life to our people.

G-9 Mission: The DCS, G-9 administers the Army’s installation resource program evaluation, leads the Army's Quality of Life effort, implements, integrates, supervises and assesses execution of policies, resources, plans and programs for the Installation Enterprise to enable ready, prompt and sustained land dominance by Army forces.

A graphic with notional data to better illustrate how the Real Property Space Availability application, or RPSA, is intended to maximize interactions with the application and help drive more timely, cheaper, and/or optimal faculty solutions. (U.S. Army graphic)

Installation Innovation: New Online Real Estate Tool

The Army will soon pilot an online real estate tool, akin to commercial marketplaces like Zillow or Redfin, to help installations match the supply of available facilities with the demand from units and organizations around the globe, an installation expert said earlier this month.

As of June, Fort Hood Family Housing, a privatized military housing community, has launched a community-wide tree-trimming project at Fort Hood, Texas. The project is the first of many funded by an investment of more than $420 million over the next five years. (Photo courtesy Fort Hood Family Housing/Lendlease)

Lendlease begins 5-year plan at Fort Hood

In partnership with the U.S. Army, Lendlease announced its short- and long-term vision for the approximately $420 million investment into Fort Hood Family Housing over the next five years. The 50-year partnership with the Army is designed to provide homes that improve service members’ quality of life. One of the largest projects includes the demolition and subsequent new construction of nearly 600 new junior enlisted homes in Chaffee Village. Construction on the new homes is expected to being in January 2022.

Paras Upreti stands in front of the sign for the Directorate of Public Works in the Baumholder Military Community, Germany, Aug. 24. Upreti, an employee of U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz, is volunteering Urdu language simultaneous interpretation services as thousands of Afghan evacuees stream into the Kaiserslautern Military Community and stay on Ramstein Air Base and the garrison's Rhine Ordnance Barracks site. (Jason Tudor)

U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz employee Interprets for Afghan Evacuees

U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz employee, Mr. Paras Upreti, 30, demonstrated the “can-do” Army installation operations spirit and Army value of selfless service. He volunteered to interpret for the many evacuees of Operation Allies Refuge that arrived at the “makeshift Ellis Island” at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Upreti knew some Afghans would speak Urdu, one of his five languages. Mr. Upreti also speaks English, Nepali, Punjabi, and Sanskrit.

Map of the U.S. showing interconnected Army Installations

A Strategy for Improving and Modernizing Army Installations in the Cyber Age

The U.S. Army Installations Strategy is the first strategy to identify the need for modernized, resilient, and sustainable installations. This strategy describes how installations will modernize to support the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) Ready Force over the next 15+ years. Installations must modernize at pace with overall Army modernization. Army installations are foundational to Soldier and Family quality of life and Army readiness.

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