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The bill increases safety, resilience, and oversight of Service Academy facilities through required assessments and timebound plans, but it will likely require significant spending and near-term staff attention and could raise preservation-related costs.
Students and staff at Service Academies will get clearer, timebound plans to fix or replace failing buildings within five years, improving safety and campus conditions.
Service Academies will assess and plan for energy, extreme weather, cybersecurity, and clean water risks, increasing resilience of training, operations, and facilities.
Congressional Armed Services Committees will receive timely briefings and completed plans, improving transparency and accountability over academy facilities and plans.
Meeting renovation and replacement timelines may require substantial new spending, potentially increasing costs for taxpayers or forcing reprioritization of Defense budgets.
Short deadlines for plan completion (plans due by Sept 30, 2027) could divert personnel time and resources toward planning work instead of other operational priorities in the near term.
Identifying historic buildings eligible for the National Register could constrain renovation options and raise preservation costs for academies.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Sarah Elfreth · Last progress December 11, 2025
Requires each Secretary of a military department to create comprehensive master plans for every Service Academy under their authority to assess and address infrastructure needs, list facilities in poor or failing condition, identify historic properties, and evaluate risks from energy disruptions, extreme weather, cybersecurity, and clean water availability. Plans must propose methods to address those needs within five years and be completed and delivered to congressional Armed Services Committees by specified deadlines (briefings within 180 days; plans due by September 30, 2027; final submissions by December 1, 2027 or 30 days after completion).