The House is expected this week to debate and vote on the annual defense spending bill. The draft includes $50 million for the Defense Community Infrastructure Program (DCIP), which is half the amount allocated to the program last year in the appropriations and authorization bills.
Rep. James Moylan (R-Guam) is introducing an amendment that would restore the full funding for the program, ADC said in a key action alert distributed to its members Tuesday.
ADC asked members to reach out to their House delegation encouraging them to co-sponsor and support Moylan’s amendment to increase DCIP funding to last year’s level of $100 million.
The Impact of DCIP
DCIP “allows DOD to work with state and local governments by providing a matching grant to address the critical off-base infrastructure needs that have a direct impact on the military value and resilience of our installations,” ADC writes in a background document that also describes some of the projects that have been made possible in recent years through DCIP.
In its own fact sheet, the DOD Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation says DCIP “is designed to address deficiencies in community infrastructure, supportive of a military installation, in order to enhance military value, cadet training at covered educational institutions, installation resilience and military family quality of life.”
DOD photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Brittany A. Chase
