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

Summary

The Secretary must add long-term energy security and resilience as a required feature when calculating the life-cycle cost for certain military construction projects. The design must make sure the facility can keep doing its mission during natural or human-caused disasters, attacks, or other unexpected events. That energy-resilience need cannot be traded off against other design requirements for cost reasons. The Secretary must apply the latest National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) life-cycle cost tool and include on-site distributed energy assets in the design. A "covered military construction project" means a facility used for critical functions during disasters or attacks. 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 facilities; and satellite and missile launch and control sites.