What the Omnibus Can Do: Invest $22.4 billion to restore everything including barracks, hangars, roads, runways, and hospitals.
America's Military Today:
To fund other priorities with constrained budgets, the services have been diverting funds from facilities maintenance, a risky gamble that has accelerated the failure rate of our infrastructure.
Estimates of the number of facilities that now meet the Pentagon's definition of "failing" have doubled in recent years.
Our Armed Forces are struggling with crumbling and mold-ridden barracks, hangars that have been condemned, air traffic control facilities and runways in disrepair, collapsed ceilings and contaminated water.
The backlog of deferred maintenance on facilities has increased from $2 billion in 1978 to $100 billion today.
What the Omnibus Can Do: Invest $22.4 billion to restore everything including barracks, hangars, roads, runways, and hospitals.
$13.0 billion to sustain, repair, and upgrade military infrastructure
