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House Bill 10482
119th Congress(2025-2026)
Dashboard for MILCON Projects Act
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Introduced in House on Sep 17, 2026
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H. R. 10482 (Introduced-in-House)


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.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 17, 2026

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


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.