Dashboard for MILCON Projects Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10482 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10482

To require the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering 
    to establish a dashboard for military construction projects for 
 Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation facilities, and for other 
                               purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2026

  Mr. Bacon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL

 
To require the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering 
    to establish a dashboard for military construction projects for 
 Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation facilities, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Dashboard for MILCON Projects Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF A DASHBOARD FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS 
              FOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION 
              FACILITIES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the enactment of 
this section, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 
Engineering, in coordination with each Secretary of a military 
department, shall establish a central dashboard to monitor and track 
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation facility data related to 
military construction planning, design, and execution metrics across 
the military departments.
    (b) Requirements.--The database shall--
            (1) use existing financial management tools;
            (2) display relevant data for Research, Development, Test, 
        and Evaluation facilities including, at a minimum, facility 
        location, manager of the facility, building number, plant 
        replacement value, age, size, building condition index, mission 
        dependency index, civil engineering projects programmed for the 
        facility, and value of each such projects;
            (3) track unfunded facility requirements;
            (4) summarize laboratory real property and non-real 
        property data and metrics;
            (5) use Real Property Unique Identifiers (or a similar 
        identifier for real property or other assets authorized by the 
        Secretary of Defense) for Equipment Replacement Value of 
        equipment that is not real property; and
            (6) display trends across any data included in the 
        database.
    (c) Notification to Congress.--Not later than 30 days after the 
date on which the dashboard required by subsection (a) is established, 
the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering shall 
submit to the congressional defense committees a certification that the 
dashboard is operational and meets the requirements of subsection (b).
    (d) Recommendation.--Not later than three years after the enactment 
of this section, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and 
Engineering shall submit to the Secretary of Defense a recommendation 
on whether use of the dashboard should be continued. Not later than 15 
days after making such submission, the Under Secretary shall submit to 
the congressional defense committees a notice of such recommendation.
    (e) Termination.--The authority under this section terminates on 
December 30, 2030.
    (f) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation 
        facility'' means a laboratory facility or a test and evaluation 
        facility.
            (2) The term ``Equipment Replacement Value'' means the 
        estimated cost to replace the non-real property installed test 
        equipment within a ground test infrastructure asset.
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