U.S. Transportation Command announced that transportation offices supporting 16 domestic installations will start awarding task orders for local shipments under the Global Household Goods Contract, a.k.a. GHC, in September.
USTRANSCOM said Tuesday those 16 installations are located across nine states, including California, Arizona, Maryland, Colorado and Virginia.
The installations are:
- Carlisle Barracks
- Fort Carson
- Fort Detrick
- Fort George G. Meade
- Fort Gregg-Adams
- Fort Huachuca
- Fort Stewart
- Hunter Army Airfield
- Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort
- Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
- Minot Air Force Base
- Naval Postgraduate School Monterey
- Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach
- Peterson Space Force Base
- Presidio of Monterey
- United States Air Force Academy
The Department of Defense intends to achieve full domestic GHC implementation by spring 2025 and expects international shipments to kick off no earlier than September 2025.
In 2021, USTRANSCOM awarded HomeSafe Alliance — a joint venture of KBR and Tier One Relocation — the $6.2 billion GHC to provide household goods transportation and warehousing support services for DOD and U.S. Coast Guard personnel and other federal employees.
As of Aug. 20, HomeSafe Alliance had received 116 task orders from DOD for shipment requests across the initial sites. A total of 94 shipments were completed under the contract.
USTRANSCOM said the next batch of installations across 13 states, including Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Maryland, are being prepared to kick off GHC shipments in October.
The command’s Defense Personal Property Management Office said 96 percent of GHC customers that submitted survey responses described their overall experience as satisfied or better.
“The positive feedback received from both customers and our transportation offices shows that we are headed in the right direction,” said DPMO Director Andy Dawson.
“This summer provided us the opportunity to validate new business processes and IT systems for GHC on a smaller scale while customers experience the new program. Overall, we are satisfied with how things have gone so far and anticipate continued progress as GHC volume increases this fall,” Dawson added.