The Ramstein Air Base (AB) General Plan is an executive summary of volumes of planning documents that are used to identify and prioritize infrastructure and facility improvements. Required by Air Force Instruction (AFI) 32-7062, Air Force Comprehensive Planning, the KMC General Plan provides a clear summarizing guide for future development of the installation. Its illustrative format provides the installation commander and other decision makers with a tool that can assist them in quickly evaluating all pertinent factors and issues that affect the installation’s current, short- and long-range development

The Kaiserslautern Military Community (KMC) is an extremely dynamic installation with a critical mission. This plan will prepare Ramstein Air Base and surrounding bases for base closures, stationing movements, and changing missions over the next twenty years. This project includes no less than seventeen individual Area Development Plans to provide a more intense focus on areas that have specific challenges and require more focused recommendations. Due to the fact that this installation is changing so rapidly with a wild fluctuation of transient personnel it was critical to conduct extensive base capacity analysis as a part of this project.

Deliverables for this project also include a custom build Content Management System (CMS) for the management and maintenance of the General Plan. This CMS is database driven using SQL Server and will provide repository of overviews of the volumes of studies that have been recently completed that are easily accessed by design professionals and planning professionals throughout the KMC. The programming platform of the CMS will be .NET. Maps developed in the plan will viewed through the Enterprise GeoBase platform maintained by the Ramstein GeoBase office. In addition to the network-level security, the new CMS database system must provide robust security at the application level. A critical component of this security will be a comprehensive audit trail and transaction log. The audit trail is responsible for recording details about each user's activity in the application. The transaction log is responsible for enabling KMC to recreate information from any point in time.