§2808a Facility Construction or Repair: Transactions Other Than Contracts and Grants

Summary

Allows the Secretary to make other kinds of agreements (not regular contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to plan, design, prototype, pilot, build, or repair facilities. The Secretary can pay for these projects using money available for military construction, operation and maintenance, or research, development, test, and evaluation. If the original participants were chosen through a competitive process and they finish a complete, usable facility or improvement, they can be given a follow-on production contract without new competition. At least 14 days before using this authority, the Secretary must electronically notify the congressional defense committees with the project title, description and location, estimated cost and funding source, the selected recipient or contractor if known, and the reason for using this authority instead of the normal military construction process. The Secretary of Defense must send a report 180 days after the law is enacted, and then twice a year after that, summarizing who ran each project, total cost and funding source, scope, purpose and location, any changes in delivery speed, any cost savings or risk reductions, and lessons learned and recommendations.