---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2816"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2816"
heading: "Consideration of energy security and energy resilience in life-cycle cost for military construction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2816"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 169 — Military Construction and Military Family Housing"
  - "Subchapter I — Military Construction"
---

# §2816. Consideration of energy security and energy resilience in life-cycle cost for military construction

- (a) **In General.—**
  - (1) The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5), when evaluating the life-cycle designed cost of a covered [military construction](/usc/10/2801.md?p=a) project, shall include as a [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) requirement the long-term consideration of [energy security](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-7) and [energy resilience](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-6) that would ensure that the resulting [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) is capable of continuing to perform its missions, during the life of the [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2), in the event of a natural or human-caused disaster, an attack, or any other unplanned event that would otherwise interfere with the ability of the [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to perform its missions.
  - (2) A [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) requirement under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall not be weighed, for cost purposes, against other [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) requirements in determining the design of the [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
- (b) **Inclusion in the Building Life-cycle Cost Program.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) shall include the requirements of [subsection (a)](#a) in applying the latest version of the building life-cycle cost [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), as developed by the National Institute of [Standards](/usc/10/3011.md?p=3) and Technology, to consider on-site distributed energy assets in a building design for a covered [military construction](/usc/10/2801.md?p=a) project.
- (c) **Covered Military Construction Project Defined.—**
  - (1) In this section, the term “covered [military construction](/usc/10/2801.md?p=a) project” means a [military construction](/usc/10/2801.md?p=a) project for a [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) that is used to perform critical [functions](/usc/10/467.md?p=1) during a natural or human-caused disaster, an attack, or any other unplanned event.
  - (2) For purposes of [paragraph (1)](#c-1), the term “[facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)” [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) at a minimum any of the following:
    - (A) Operations centers.
    - (B) Nuclear command and control [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
    - (C) Integrated strategic and tactical warning and attack assessment [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
    - (D) Continuity of government [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
    - (E) Missile defense [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
    - (F) Air defense [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
    - (G) Hospitals.
    - (H) Armories and readiness centers of the [National Guard](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-1).
    - (I) Communications [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
    - (J) Satellite and missile launch and control [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–283, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2804(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4320.)