Developing Master Plans for Military Service Academies Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Developing Master Plans for Military Service Academies Act of 2025 requires each Secretary of a military department to prepare a master plan for every service academy under that department. Each plan must comprehensively address academy infrastructure needs, identify poor or failing infrastructure, explain how that infrastructure will be replaced, recapitalized, or renovated within five years, list academy infrastructure already on or soon eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, and assess risks from energy disruptions, extreme weather, cybersecurity, and clean-water availability. The plans must be completed by September 30, 2027. Each Secretary must brief the House and Senate Armed Services Committees within 180 days on the timeline and then submit the completed plan within 30 days after completion or by December 1, 2027, whichever comes first.
Who Benefits and How
Service academies benefit because the bill forces a comprehensive inventory and modernization plan for poor, failing, historic, and risk-exposed infrastructure. Cadets and academy staff benefit if replacement, recapitalization, renovation, energy resilience, cybersecurity, and water planning lead to safer and more reliable facilities. The Armed Services Committees benefit from formal briefings and completed plans. Military department facilities offices benefit from a required planning structure that can support future budget requests.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Secretaries of military departments must manage the planning process, meet the September 30, 2027 deadline, brief Congress within 180 days, and submit completed plans. Academy public works and facilities staff must inventory poor or failing infrastructure, historic properties, energy risks, weather risks, cybersecurity risks, and clean-water risks. Defense budget officials may need to reconcile the plans with military construction and sustainment priorities. Federal taxpayers could face future costs if the plans identify large replacement, recapitalization, or renovation needs.
Key Provisions
- Requires each military department Secretary to develop infrastructure master plans for service academies.
- Requires each plan to list poor or failing infrastructure and a five-year replacement, recapitalization, or renovation approach.
- Requires each plan to identify historic infrastructure and assess energy, extreme-weather, cybersecurity, and clean-water risks.
- Directs Secretaries to brief the Armed Services Committees within 180 days on the planning timeline.
- Requires completed plans by September 30, 2027 and submission to Congress by December 1, 2027 at the latest.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires each military department Secretary to complete infrastructure master plans for service academies by September 30, 2027, including failing facilities, five-year replacement or renovation plans, historic properties, and risks from energy disruptions, extreme weather, cybersecurity, and clean-water availability.
Key Policy Areas
Defense, Military Academies, Infrastructure, Congressional Oversight
Primary Purpose
Requires each military department Secretary to complete infrastructure master plans for service academies by September 30, 2027, including failing facilities, five-year replacement or renovation plans, historic properties, and risks from energy disruptions, extreme weather, cybersecurity, and clean-water availability.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Service academies
- Cadets
- Academy staff
- Armed Services Committees
- Military department facilities offices
Identified Costs
- Military department Secretaries
- Academy facilities staff
- Defense budget officials
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Introduced in House
Ms. Elfreth (for herself and Mr. Wittman) introduced the following …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Academy facilities staff, Cadets, Military department Secretaries
Positive-direction: Cadets, Service academies
Negative-direction: Academy facilities staff, Military department Secretaries
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "Service Academy"
- → A service academy as defined in 10 U.S.C. 347.
- "Armed Services Committees"
- → House and Senate Armed Services Committees
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
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