Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation

**Our Mission** The Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation is a unique line function that furthers the priorities of the National Defense Strategy by supporting our warfighters and ensuring the readiness and lethality of our defense missions through technical and financial assistance to states, counties, municipalities, regions, and other communities. This assistance is designed to foster cooperation with military installations to enhance the military mission, achieve facility and infrastructure savings, reduced operating costs, address encroachment and compatible land use issues, support military families, and increase military, civilian, and industrial capabilities for our national security. Many states, territories, and communities across the country support the mission of the Department of Defense. Some are home to military bases, while others manufacture the products and provide the services necessary for national defense. When a defense program change occurs, it can have a major impact on local and regional communities.