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Joint Base Cape Cod outlines training surge, infrastructure projects and upcoming master plan
Summary
JBCC and tenant commands updated the Select Board on a busy year of regional training exercises, range and facility upgrades, ongoing National Academy of Sciences work on range munitions, and plans to start a basewide master-planning outreach to nearby towns in spring 2026.
Commanders from Joint Base Cape Cod and its tenant units briefed the Falmouth Select Board on Feb. 9 about a recent increase in training activity and a slate of infrastructure projects across the base.
Camp Edwards leaders described a busy training year that included a multinational command exercise, airborne rope and fast-rope training courses, staging for mobilized Army units, and the planned award of contracts to modernize barracks, dining facilities and live-fire range electrical systems. The base’s leadership said a National Academy of Sciences study on munitions impacts for ranges has been funded and will proceed.
Tenant commands reviewed their missions and local ties: the 102nd Intelligence Wing described distributed ground systems and cyber/communications missions; Cape Cod Space Force Station emphasized missile-warning and space-domain tracking with a multimillion-dollar microgrid project planned; and Coast Guard Base Cape Cod summarized search-and-rescue, aviation medevac, port security and housing responsibilities. Service leaders said they will begin community outreach for a basewide area master plan in spring 2026 and asked stakeholders to participate.
Select Board members thanked the commanders and discussed housing pressures, community relations and the potential for cooperative projects including composting and local contracting.
