Defense Community Infrastructure Program

Assist state and local governments with addressing deficiencies in community infrastructure to, in order of priority, enhance military value (to include critical infrastructure), cadet training at covered educational institutions, installation resilience, or military family quality of life. Projects must be supportive of a military installation. Community infrastructure means any transportation project; school, hospital, police, fire, emergency response, or other community support facility; or water, wastewater, telecommunications, electric, gas, or other utility infrastructure project that is located off a military installation and owned by a state or local government.

State or local governments may apply for the assistance to address deficiencies in community infrastructure supportive of a military installation. Assets owned by not-for-profit, member-owned utilities may be enhanced with the funding. However, they may only apply in partnership with a primary state or local government proposer. Community infrastructure projects or facilities must be located off a military installation or on property under the jurisdiction of a military department that is also subject to a real estate agreement (including a lease or an easement) held by a state or local government.

10 U.S.C. � 2391(d)(1)(B) requires that proposed community infrastructure projects be selected in the following order of priority: projects that will enhance military value at a military installation (to include critical infrastructure); projects that will contribute to the training of cadets enrolled in an independent program at a covered educational institution; projects that will enhance military installation resilience; and projects that will enhance military family quality of life at a military installation.

Program requires a 30% match requirement, except no match is required for projects located in a rural location (city, town, or unincorporated area with a population of not more than 100,000 inhabitants by zip code) or in receipt of a national security waiver from the cognizant Military Department Secretary (i.e., Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, or Secretary of the Air Force) attesting to the national security need/importance of the proposed project.

Fiscal year 2025: A $13M federal award enables the Golden Valley Electric Association, Inc., Alaska, to undertake a $13.3M project to construct a new switching substation, upgrade an existing substation, and improve communication systems for military assets across the state. A $10M federal award enables the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma, to undertake a $35.8M project to reconstruct a segment of US-69 and replace the Peaceable Creek bridge to support operations at McAlester Army Ammunition Plant. A $5.7M federal award enables the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments, Connecticut, to undertake a project to replace 11,700 linear feet of a water main to enhance water supply infrastructure supporting Submarine Base New London.