§2669 Transfer of Land and Facilities to Support Contracts with Federally Funded Research and Development Centers

Summary

A military department secretary may lease land, buildings, infrastructure, and improvements at no cost to a covered FFRDC when the lease helps carry out a Department of Defense contract. The lease ends either 50 years after it starts or when the related DoD contract ends or is not renewed, whichever is earlier. The secretary may also give ownership of buildings and improvements on that leased land to the covered FFRDC for no cost. Those buildings or improvements can return to the United States when the land lease ends, as the secretary decides, and the covered FFRDC must demolish conveyed buildings if the secretary requires it. Buildings on the leased land may be built to commercial standards while still having the force protection needed for their work and location. The lease or conveyance is not subject to certain listed laws and rules that would otherwise apply, and some other federal provisions do not apply to improvements the covered FFRDC builds. The secretary does not have to run a competitive selection process for the lessee, and some procurement rules and the Federal Acquisition Regulation do not apply. A "covered FFRDC" means a federally funded research and development center that is sponsored by and has a contract with the Department of Defense.