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Defense Community Infrastructure Program

Program Information

Popular name

DCIP

Program Number

12.027

Program objective

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.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2023

    On September 22, 2023, the Department of Defense announced the award of 17 grants totaling approximately $100 million under the Defense Community Infrastructure Program by the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. These awards followed a competitive process culminating in the selection of proposals for funding on August 7, 2023. Each project will enhance the lethality of local missions at a local installation and support our service members, their families, and the States and communities that are always there to support the mission. These awards derive from Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations and leverage an additional $39.2 million in non-Federal and other Federal funding for a total investment of $138.9 million.

  2. 2024

    On September 20, 2024, the Department of Defense announced the award of 14 grants totaling approximately $100 million under the Defense Community Infrastructure Program by the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. These awards followed a competitive process culminating in the selection of proposals for funding on August 1, 2024. Each project will enhance the lethality of local missions at a local installation and support our service members, their families, and the States and communities that are always there to support the mission. These awards derive from Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations and leverage an additional $31.5 million in non-federal funding, for a total investment of $131.1 million.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Federal regulations that will apply to an Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation grant include administrative requirements and provisions governing allowable costs as stated in: • 2 C.F.R. Part 200, ‘‘Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards’’ • 2 CFR Part 1104, “Implementation of Government-wide Guidance for Grants and Cooperative Agreements” • 2 C.F.R. Part 25, ‘‘Universal Identifier and System for Award Management’’ • 2 C.F.R. Part 170, ‘‘Reporting Sub-award and Executive Compensation Information’’ • 2 C.F.R Part 184, “Buy America Preferences for Infrastructure Projects” • 2 C.F.R. Part 1125, Department of Defense Non-Procurement Debarment and Suspension • 32 C.F.R. Part 28, ‘‘New Restrictions on Lobbying’’ • Additional requirements include compliance with: National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), National Historic Preservation Act, Hire American Act, and the Build America, Buy America Act included under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58) signed into law on November 15, 2021.

  1. Pub. L. Public Law No: 115-232 Section 2861(Defense Community Infrastructure Pilot Program).
  2. 10 U.S.C. § 2391(d): Defense Community Infrastructure Program.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Local
  • State

Additional resources