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FY2024 Military Construction Appropriations:
A Summary
Updated April 25, 2024
On March 9, 2023, the Biden Administration submitted the FY2024 President’s Budget Request (PBR)
seeking $16.675 billion for U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) military construction (MILCON) and
family housing programs. The request was $2.325 billion (12%) less than the $19.000 billion provided for
such programs in the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2023 (Division J of P.L. 117-328). The House-passed version of the legislation for FY2024 (H.R. 4366)
proposed appropriating $799 million (4.8%) more than the requested amount. The Senate Appropriations
Committee-reported version of the legislation (S. 2127) recommended $2.395 billion (14.4%) more than
the requested amount. On March 9, 2024, President Biden signed P.L. 118-42, which provided $18.675
billion for the FY2024 MILCON and family housing programs, 12% above the requested amount (Table
1). Explanatory materials and bill funding tables for Division A, the Military Construction, Veterans
Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations (MILCON-VA) Act are contained in the March 5, 2024
Congressional Record.
A list of selected projects funded in the legislation is included in Table 2.
The FY2024 MILCON-VA appropriations act included 11 projects that were incrementally funded (i.e.,
Congress provided a portion of the requested amount for a particular project). By incrementally funding
certain projects, Congress allows DOD to initiate the construction project but DOD will likely have to
request additional funding in a future budget cycle to complete the project. In July 2023, the Biden
Administration cited opposition to the House-passed version of the MILCON-VA bill because it proposed
funding 24 projects incrementally.
The act appropriated funding for 143 MILCON projects that were not included in the President’s budget
request but were listed as Community Project Funding or Congressionally Directed Spending items.
Appropriations for those projects totaled about $1.565 billion.
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Table 1. Military Construction Appropriation Legislation for FY2024
(in thousands of dollars of budget authority)
FY2023
FY2024
FY2024
Account
Enacted
Request
H.R. 4366
S. 2127
Enacted
Military Construction, Army
$1,553,825
$1,470,555
$1,517,455
$1,876,875
$2,022,775
Military Construction, Navy & Marine
$4,345,320
$6,022,187
$4,477,961
$6,046,309
$5,531,369
Military Construction, Air Force
$2,614,996
$2,605,314
$2,439,614
$2,802,942
$2,741,424
Military Construction, Defense-wide
$2,626,078
$2,984,682
$2,651,047
$3,132,782
$3,161,782
Military Construction, Army National
$459,018
$340,186
$369,261
$598,572
$620,647
Guard
Military Construction, Army Reserve
$193,878
$107,076
$117,076
$151,076
$151,076
Military Construction, Navy & Marine
$36,837
$51,291
$61,291
$51,291
$51,291
Reserve
Military Construction, Air National
$279,353
$178,722
$189,322
$304,426
$295,526
Guard
Military Construction, Air Force
$85,423
$291,572
$330,572
$309,572
$331,572
Reserve
NATO Security Investment Program
$220,139
$293,434
$293,434
$293,434
$293,434
Base Realignment and Closure
$574,687
$389,174
$539,174
$439,174
$489,174
Subtotal, Military Construction
$12,989,554
$14,734,193
$12,986,207
$16,006,435
$15,690,070
Subtotal, Family Housing
$1,986,330
$1,940,751
$1,970,751
$1,940,751
$1,970,751
Subtotal, Administrative Provisions
$4,024,116
$0
$2,517,042
$1,122,814
$1,014,179
Total, Military Construction
$19,000,000
$16,674,944
$17,474,000
$19,070,000
$18,675,000
Source: H.Rept. 118-122, pp. 96-100; S.Rept. 118-43, pp. 106-109, P.L. 118-42.
Notes: Family Housing budget numbers include Family Housing Construction, the Family Housing Operation &
Maintenance, Family Housing Improvement Fund (FHIF), and the Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund (UHIF).
Selected Funding Items
In Section 124, the appropriations act provided $514.1 million for additional construction funds for
projects listed on DOD’s FY2024 unfunded priorities lists.
The appropriations included $662.4 million for planning and design and construction of new barracks
facilities, also known as unaccompanied housing. That includes Section 132, in which Congress
appropriated $15 million for each of the three military departments for planning and design for new
barracks facilities. The joint explanatory statement that accompanied the enacted law directs each of the
services to provide the defense committees with a report for how the services intend to address poor
condition of barracks facilities that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) identified in a report
released in September 2023 (GAO–23–105797).
The appropriations included $336.3 million to support Child Development Centers (CDCs), which
provided $276.8 million for construction of six new CDCs and $59.5 million in planning and design
funding to help develop future construction.
The appropriations act included $69 million for planning and design and $62 million in unspecified minor
construction for projects as identified on INDOPACOM’s unfunded priorities list.
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Table 2. Selected Military Construction Projects Funded by P.L. 118-42
(in thousands of dollars of budget authority)
Requested
Location
Project Title
Amount
P.L. 118-42
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI
Dry Dock 3 Replacement (Inc)
$1,318,711
$1,318,711
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, ME
Multi-Mission Drydock #1 Extension (Inc)
$544,808
$544,808
Fort Meade, MD
NSAW Recap Building 4 (Inc)
$315,000
$315,000
Joint Region Marianas, GU
PDI: Joint Communication Upgrade (Inc)
$292,830
$146,415
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, VA
Weapons Magazines
$221,920
$110, 960
Naval Submarine Base New London, CT
Weapons Magazine & Ordnance Operations
$219,200
$109,600
Facility
March Air Reserve Base, CA
KC-46 Two Bay Maintenance/Fuel Hangar
$201,000
$201,000
Naval Base Kitsap, WA
Shipyard Electrical Backbone
$195,000
$195,000
Fort Meade, MD
Cybersecurity Operations Facility
$186,480
$186,480
Fort Belvoir, VA
DIA Headquarters Annex
$185,000
$185,000
Guam/Joint Region Marianas, GU
Missile Integration Test Facility
$174,540
$87,270
El sworth Air Force Base, SD
B-21 Phase Hanger
$160,000
$160,000
Marine Barracks Washington, DC
Bachelor Enlisted Quarters
$131,800
$65,900
Naval Station Norfolk, VA
MQ-25 Aircraft Laydown Facilities
$114,495
$57,248
Port Hueneme, CA
Laboratory Compound Facilities Improvement
$110,000
$110,000
Port Hueneme, CA
Laboratory Compound Facilities Improvement
$110,000
$110,000
Marine Corps Base, HI
Water Reclamation Facility Upgrade
$0
$109,000
Fort Jackson, SC
Reception Barracks Complex, Phase 2, Cost to
$0
$101,000
Complete
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI
Dry Dock Replacement
$0
$90,000
Lexington Armory, NY
National Guard Readiness Center
$0
$90,000
addition/alteration
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI
Waterfront Production Facility (planning and
$0
$49,080
design)
Fort Novosel, AL
Adv. Individual Training Barracks Complex
$0
$41,200
(Cost to Complete)
Fort Hunter Liggett, CA
Network Enterprise Center
$0
$40,000
Source: FY2024 Enacted from P.L. 118-47 and Senate, Congressional Record, Daily Edition, Vol. 170, no. 39, part II
(March 5, 2024), p. S1246-S1263.
Notes: Projects listed in this table were selected based on a CRS longitudinal analysis of the president’s budget request
for FY2024, and the House- and Senate-passed drafts of the FY2024 MILCON-VA bil s and P.L. 118-47. In a previous CRS
Insight about the House- and Senate-passed drafts of the FY2024 MILCON-VA bil s, CRS compiled three lists of projects:
(1) the ten largest MILCON projects (by dol ar value) that were included in the PBR; (2) the ten MILCON projects in the
House-passed bil that showed the largest proposed change in funding (by dol ar value) compared to the president’s budget
request; and (3) the ten MILCON projects in the Senate-passed bil that showed the largest proposed change in funding
(by dol ar value) compared to the president’s budget request. The table above includes all of the projects that CRS
identified in that analysis of the president’s budget request, and the House- and Senate-passed drafts of the FY2024
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MILCON-VA bil s. Acronyms include: NSAW, National Security Agency Washington; PDI, Pacific Deterrence Initiative;
and DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency.
Author Information
Andrew Tilghman
Analyst in U.S. Defense Infrastructure Policy
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