Army Commanding General Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. has ordered a major inventory of lands owned by the Philippine Army in bid to hasten the process of registration and titling of still undocumented real-estate assets.
Brawner issued the order during his visit to the headquarters of the Army’s Installation Management Command (IMCOM) headed by Brig. Gen. George Joel Lalaquil to check on its ongoing base support and development projects.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. earlier ordered the military to account for all of its lands, as he wanted some of these to be awarded and identified for farming projects to revitalize the country’s agriculture industry.
During his visit, Brawner directed Lalaquil and the leadership of the IMCOM to continue pursuing the perfection of the Army’s ownership of its real-estate assets.
The IMCOM, which was activated in September 2019, is the Army’s unit responsible for the organization and management of the Army’s installations, assets and property.
The Army chief commended the IMCOM for managing and securing the Army’s 144 camps and military reservations, including 35 that are already titled, 37 that are in process of titling and 72 others that are slated for geodetic surveying.
He also noted the unit’s 123 base development projects that included 29 “Tatag ng Imprastraktura para sa Kapayapaan at Seguridad (TIKAS)” projects under the Department of National Defense-Department of Public Works and Highways infrastructure convergence program and its role in the Army’s humanitarian assistance and disaster response efforts to victims of natural calamities.
Meanwhile, the Army began its two-day strategic communication workshop aimed at coming up with a strong message that will convey its 2040 transformation story.
The two-day workshop gathered planners from the Army Governance and Strategy Management Office, Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil-Military Operations, Office of the International Military Affairs, Office of the Army Chief Public Affairs, Training and Doctrine Command and Civil-Military Operations Regiment.
In 2010, the Army Transformation Roadmap (ATR) aimed for the transformation of the Army into a “credible, reliable, responsive, capable, and more committed to its mandate of serving the people and securing the land.”
The Army is already entering the ATR’s third and final base camp wherein it targets to achieve its full potential as a world-class Army by 2028.