H.R. 10482: Dashboard for MILCON Projects Act

This bill would require the Pentagon’s research and engineering leadership to create a central online dashboard for tracking military construction projects tied to research, development, test, and evaluation facilities, such as laboratories and test sites.

What the dashboard would do

• Be created within one year after the bill becomes law.
• Be built by the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, working with each military department.
• Use existing financial management tools rather than requiring a completely new system.
• Show key information about these facilities, including:
  • location
  • facility manager
  • building number
  • plant replacement value
  • age
  • size
  • building condition index
  • mission dependency index
  • planned civil engineering projects and their values
• Track unfunded facility needs, meaning needed projects that do not yet have money attached to them.
• Summarize both real property data (the buildings and land-related assets) and non-real property data (such as equipment).
• Use identifiers to help match information to specific assets, including a unique real property identifier or a similar official identifier.
• Show trends across the data so users can see changes over time.

Reporting requirements

• Within 30 days after the dashboard is ready, the Under Secretary must tell the congressional defense committees that the dashboard is operational and meets the bill’s requirements.
• Within three years after enactment, the Under Secretary must recommend to the Secretary of Defense whether the dashboard should continue to be used.
• That recommendation must then be reported to Congress within 15 days.

How long the authority lasts

• The authority created by this bill would end on December 30, 2030.

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