Sec. 2804. Consideration of energy security and energy resilience in life-cycle cost for military construction
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Chapter 169 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2815 the following new section: The Secretary concerned, when evaluating the life-cycle designed cost of a covered military construction project, shall include as a facility requirement the long-term consideration of energy security and energy resilience that would ensure that the resulting facility is capable of continuing to perform its missions, during the life of the facility, in the event of a natural or human-caused disaster, an attack, or any other unplanned event that would otherwise interfere with the ability of the facility to perform its missions. A facility requirement under paragraph
(1)shall not be weighed, for cost purposes, against other facility requirements in determining the design of the facility. The Secretary shall include the requirements of subsection
(a)in applying the latest version of the building life-cycle cost program, as developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to consider on-site distributed energy assets in a building design for a covered military construction project. In this section, the term covered military construction project means a military construction project for a facility that is used to perform critical functions during a natural or human-caused disaster, an attack, or any other unplanned event. For purposes of paragraph (1), the term facility includes at a minimum any of the following: Operations centers. Nuclear command and control facilities. Integrated strategic and tactical warning and attack assessment facilities. Continuity of government facilities. Missile defense facilities. Air defense facilities. Hospitals. Armories and readiness centers of the National Guard. Communications facilities. Satellite and missile launch and control facilities. . The table of sections at the beginning of subchapter I of chapter 169 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2815 the following new item: 2816. Consideration of energy security and energy resilience in life-cycle cost for military construction. .