§2816 Consideration of Energy Security and Energy Resilience in Life-cycle Cost for Military Construction

Summary

When planning the life-cycle cost for a covered military construction project, the responsible Secretary must add a long-term energy security and resilience need as part of the facility’s requirements. That means the building must be able to keep doing its missions during natural disasters, attacks, or other unexpected events. That energy/resilience need cannot be traded off against other facility needs when deciding the design and costs. The Secretary must also use the latest NIST building life-cycle cost tool and include on-site distributed energy options when applying these rules. A "covered military construction project" is a project for a facility that must perform critical functions during emergencies. Examples include operations centers, nuclear command and control, warning and attack assessment centers, continuity of government sites, missile and air defense facilities, hospitals, National Guard armories and readiness centers, communications hubs, and satellite or missile launch and control facilities.