Helping Communities Help Themselves
Since 1961, we have helped local communities adapt to DoD program changes, expansions and cutbacks, as well as incompatibilities between military operations and local development.
Learn more about our program areas and how we can help your community.
Supporting the public schools that are on a military base and the roads surrounding them.
“The OEA staff was with us every step of the way from the beginning of the application process through the entire redevelopment. I don't know where we would be without them.”
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The redeveloped site now employs 23,000 people, 14 times the number of civilians employed at base closure.
Redevelopment has brought 3,500 new jobs, replacing the 146 civilian jobs lost at closure.
WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department is honoring nine winners with the 2018 Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards for...
AUGUSTA – Governor Paul R. LePage today issued a statement calling attention to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard’s (...
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