BRAC quick reference guide.

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Civilian Assistance and Re-employment Division -- CARE is a DOD organization responsible for administering the Priority Placement Program. www.nab.usace.army.mil/dnrp/

Defense National Relocation Program -- DNRP is a DOD program designed to facilitate the sale (or buy) employees' homes at their old duty stations, and help them find homes at their new duty stations. www.nab.usace.army.mil/dnrp/

Department of Labor/State 1 Stop Center -- When DOL and states pool resources to establish employment/ training centers for employees impacted by BRAC.

Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program -- ICTAP provides that employees adversely affected by BRAC may apply for other Federal vacancies advertised outside of the agency workforce and receive priority consideration if he or she is well qualified. www.opm.gov/ctap/

Homeowner's Assistance Program -- HAP is a DOD program to help Soldiers, civilians, wounded warriors and surviving spouses recoup financial losses when selling their home to PCS and/or move under BRAC. www.hap.usace.army.mil/

Job Exchange -- DOD program which permits a retirement-eligible employee of a non-BRAC activity to change jobs with an employee adversely affected due to an activity's scheduled closure or realignment.

Outplacement Subsidy -- BRAC activities may offer an outplacement subsidy as an incentive to non-DOD federal agencies to hire BRAC-impacted employees who accept employment in another geographic area.

Priority Placement Program -- PPP is a DOD program for placement of DOD civilian employees who are adversely affected by RIF, BRAC and re-stationing. www.cpol.army.mil/library/permiss/631.html

Reduction-in-Force -- RIF is the federal process for reshaping and drawing down the civilian workforce. http://www.cpol.army.mil/library/permiss/631.html

Re-employment Priority List -- RPL is the federal program that provides priority consideration for an agency's position vacancies for employees who were separated from the agency by RIF in the same commuting area.

Three Rs -- Recruitment, relocation and retention incentives are delegated to Army activities for use in recruiting new federal employees, offering monetary incentives to current employees to relocate and offering retention incentives to employees who are offered nonfederal employment to remain at an activity for a fixed period.

Transfer of Function -- TOF is the total transfer of a line of work from one geographic area to another geographic area where the same line of work is not currently being performed. Employees with TOF rights must be offered TOF if the alternative is separation or demotion. An employee who declines TOF may be separated under adverse-action procedures or included in an ongoing RIF.

Transfer of Work -- TOW is the whole or partial transfer of a line of work or specific positions from one geographic area to another. Employees do not have a right to a TOW, but may be directed by management to relocate. Employees who decline are separated under adverse action procedures.

Voluntary Early Retirement Authority -- An employee with 50 years of age and 20 years of service, or 25 years of service at any age, may be offered VERA in order to lessen the effect of RIF or to restructure a position as a result of new mission requirements. www.opm.gov/employ/vera/vera01.asp

Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay -- VSIP is also called a buyout. VSIP equals the lesser of an employee's earned severance pay amount and $25,000. VSIP is a tool to lessen the effect of RIF or to restructure a position. ww.opm.gov/employ/html/vsi.htm

VSIP II -- A VSIP that is offered to a DOD employee not impacted by BRAC to create a vacancy for a BRAC-impacted employee.

Other helpful sites:

www.brac.gov

www.hqda.army.mil/ACSIM/brac/BRAC_2005.htm

www.cpol.army.mil/library/general/brac/

Source: The majority of terms are from the "Base Realignment and Closure Smart Book for Commanders." Others are from interviews with subject matter experts.