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This bill, titled the Dashboard for MILCON Projects Act, requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering—a high-ranking Pentagon official responsible for research and technology development—to create a centralized digital tracking tool, or dashboard, within one year to monitor military construction (commonly referred to as MILCON) and infrastructure data for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) facilities, which are laboratories and testing sites used to develop and evaluate defense technologies. Contextually designed to improve oversight of aging or developing military science infrastructure, the dashboard must integrate existing financial systems to track metrics such as facility locations, building conditions, ages, sizes, planned civil engineering projects, and unfunded facility requirements, while also utilizing unique identifiers to track the replacement value of non-real property equipment like specialized ground test machinery. Furthermore, the bill mandates that the Under Secretary certify the dashboard's operational status to congressional defense committees within 30 days of its completion, submit a recommendation to the Secretary of Defense and Congress by 2027 regarding whether to continue using the tool, and automatically terminate the program's authority at the end of 2030.