Opportunity Information: Apply for OLDCC 25 F 0001
The Defense Community Infrastructure Program (DCIP) Notice of Funding Opportunity is a Department of Defense discretionary grant competition run by the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC). It is grounded in 10 U.S.C. 2391(d), which allows DoD to provide grants, cooperative agreements, or supplemental funding to help state governments, local governments, and not-for-profit, member-owned utility services fix or upgrade community infrastructure deficiencies that directly support a military installation. In practical terms, the program is designed to strengthen the capacity, resilience, and readiness of installations by improving the surrounding civilian infrastructure that service members, mission operations, and defense communities depend on.
Eligible projects fall into three broad buckets: transportation infrastructure (for example, roads, bridges, transit access, freight routes, or other mobility improvements that affect installation access and operations), community support facilities (such as schools, hospitals, police, fire, and emergency response facilities that serve installation personnel and families or enable community support to the installation), and utility infrastructure (including water and wastewater systems, telecommunications/broadband, electric power, and natural gas facilities). A key eligibility detail is location and ownership: projects must be located off the military installation, or on property under a military department secretarys jurisdiction that is subject to a real estate agreement like a lease or easement, and the infrastructure must be owned by a state or local government or a not-for-profit, member-owned utility service. This reflects the programs purpose of addressing civilian-owned infrastructure that still has a clear defense-supporting impact.
Applications are competitively reviewed and scored against selection criteria laid out in the Notice (specifically referenced as Section 6.B). While the exact scoring factors are not reproduced in the summary text provided, the Notice makes clear that proposals must align strongly with the installations needs and demonstrate a compelling case for how the project resolves an infrastructure deficiency that affects the installation. The competition structure means applicants should treat this as a merit-based grant process where the strength of the defense nexus, project readiness, and overall benefit to the installation and defense community will matter.
A required element for every proposal is a letter of support from the local installation commander representing the installation that benefits from the project. This letter is not just a general endorsement; it must at minimum explain the installations need for the project and confirm the installations willingness to support civilian execution to the extent practicable. That support includes helping OLDCC with technical review and assisting with any required National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation connected to the proposed work. When applicable, the letter should also indicate whether the project is considered defense-related critical infrastructure. There is also a special rule for proposals tied to training cadets in an independent program at a covered educational institution: the letter still must come from an installation commander for an installation that benefits from the project, even if the school is far away from that installation, reinforcing that the projects justification must still run through an installation benefit.
Funding for this cycle totals 90 million dollars, and the Notice emphasizes that these funds expire if not obligated by close of business on September 30, 2025, which signals an urgency around award timing and project obligation. The award ceiling is 20,000,000 dollars per award. The opportunity number is OLDCC 25 F 0001, the CFDA number is 12.027, and the listed eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, and other eligible entities consistent with the programs definitions (including not-for-profit, member-owned utility services). The posted closing date for submissions is July 3, 2025.
Eligibility and pass-through/subrecipient handling are tied to the Uniform Guidance. The Notice points applicants to the definitions of state and local governments in 2 C.F.R. 200.1 and notes that 2 C.F.R. 200.332 governs how eligible entities may act as pass-through entities. An important compliance point is that proposals must be submitted on behalf of any proposed subrecipient, and any proposals submitted directly by a subrecipient will not be considered. In other words, only eligible prime applicants should submit, and they must include and stand behind any subrecipient participation within their own application package.Apply for OLDCC 25 F 0001
- The Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation in the other sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Defense Community Infrastructure Program: Notice of Funding Opportunity" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 12.027.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-05-27.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-07-03. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $20,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Others.
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