National Heritage Areas Reauthorization Act of 2019

Support funding for economic development of Dayton, Ohio, region; support adding mission-related military construction funding at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Springfield Air National Guard Base in future budget requests; support efforts to construct buildings on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base using enhanced use leases (EUL), third-party financing and other creative alternatives; support allowing Foreign Military Sales (FMS) surcharge funds for construction or lease payments leading to construction at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base or leasing space off-base to support Wright-Patterson-related FMS activities; support using FMS receipts to fund Base Operations Support; support requiring a baseline study on military construction funding for defense acquisition functions, including science and technology; support additional efforts to speed up hiring for the Air Forces civilian acquisition workforce; support an outside review of Department of Defense policy on rotation of members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) in science and technical fields; support a technical correction in Title 10 of the U.S. Code to eliminate a reporting requirement inadvertently imposed on the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and other Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories (STRL) and other minor changes in the Lab Demo program; support funding and operation of the Air Force Minority Leaders Research Collaboration Program (ML-RCP) by the Air Force Research Laboratory; support maintaining the Wright-Patterson Medical Center and defense health research organizations at Wright-Patterson as they transfer to the Defense Health Agency (DHA); support increasing the visibility of the Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton (NAMRU-D) and the promote the use within the military services of its Disorientation Research Device; support the Department of Veterans Affairs implementation of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed in 2017 to establish a history office and heritage center (VA History Center) in restored historic buildings on the campus of the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Dayton; encourage the Department of Veterans Affairs to formally create a Department-wide VA history program and office; support H.R. 1990, National Aviation Heritage Area Reauthorization Act (all), S. 927, National Aviation Heritage Area Reauthorization Act (all), S. 2952, National Heritage Areas Reauthorization Act of 2019 (Section 3), and S. 2940, National Aviation Heritage Area Reauthorization Act of 2019 (all), bills to reauthorize the National Aviation Heritage Area; support provision (Title I, General Provisions) in FY 2020 Interior Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3052/H.R. 3055) and H.R. 1865, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, Division D, Title I, General Provisions, Department of the Interior, Section 113(a), to reauthorize the National Aviation Heritage Area; encourage the National Park Service to continue the process to purchase the two original Wright Company Factory buildings for the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park; encourage the National Park Service to update the General Management Plan for the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and to complete Historic Structure Reports for the Wright Factory Company buildings, Hawthorn Hill, and the Paul Laurence Dunbar Memorial; FY 2020 Defense Appropriations Bill (H.R.2968/H.R. 2740/ S. 2474), support plus-up of $100 million in the Defense-wide, Operations & Maintenance account, for the Defense Community Infrastructure Program (DCIP), also support plus-ups in Air Force RDT&E accounts; support section 558 of the FY 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 2500) and section 556 of S. 1790 (as enacted), Redesignation of the Commandant of the United States Air Force Institute of Technology as the Director and Chancellor of Such Institute; support language in H. Rep. 116-120, Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton Disorientation Research Device.

Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported

Government targets: Defense, Dept of (DOD), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE, Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)