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The bill improves disaster and cost data to strengthen military resilience and guide longer-term savings, but requires DoD resources to implement and risks uneven rollout that could leave some installations less prepared in the near term.
Military installations and personnel will gain more accurate data on the costs and impacts of extreme weather and other natural disasters, enabling better planning and targeted resilience investments.
Taxpayers and military installations can benefit from improved disaster-cost data that informs more efficient infrastructure repair and mitigation spending, potentially reducing long-term maintenance and replacement costs.
Military personnel and local communities may face uneven or delayed updated risk assessments if implementation is slow, leaving some bases less prepared against imminent disasters.
Federal employees and taxpayers may bear additional DoD staffing and resource burdens to collect and expand data across all disaster types, potentially diverting funding from other projects.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs DoD to continue collecting data on extreme weather impacts at military installations and expand that collection to include all natural disasters and their costs and effects.
Requires the Department of Defense to keep collecting data on how extreme weather and small incremental changes affect U.S. military installations and to broaden that collection to include all types of natural disasters that impact installations. The new requirement is limited to directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to continue and expand routine data collection; it does not create new spending, deadlines, or program authorizations in the text provided. The change is administrative and focused on improving the scope of installation resilience and readiness information available to Defense leaders by capturing a wider range of natural-disaster impacts.
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure regular data collection on the costs and effects of extreme weather and incremental change at military installations, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 22, 2026 by James R. Walkinshaw · Last progress July 22, 2026