The Office of Economic Conversion and Information, run jointly by the Pentagon and the Commerce Department, offers background on military base conversion projects, including speeches, testimony and press releases. It also offers a state-by-state rundown of the bases that have been shut down, projected numbers of lost jobs, and guides that may help you evaluate whether your local officials are doing everything they can when faced with a closing base.
http://www.doc.gov/ecix/ecixhomepage.html