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Army Aims Co-Investment Effort At $150 Billion Infrastructure Backlog, Wants Deals This Summer

Army Aims Co-Investment Effort At $150 Billion Infrastructure Backlog, Wants Deals This Summer
Lt. Col. Rory Hanlin, commander, 6th Battalion, 2nd Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne), U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, speaks with Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict Colby Jenkins, Deputy Under Secretary of the Army David Fitzgerald and Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Weimer at the state-of-the-art Human Performance Force Generation (HP-Forge) training facility at Fort Bragg, NC June 10, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by K. Kassens)

The Army may move out on its first co-investment agreements with private sector partners as soon as this summer, a lead official said, adding the new initiative will look to make progress on the service’s $150 billion backlog of infrastructure projects.  “Against those infrastructure [backlog] numbers, we can only put up a couple hundred million dollars to maybe a billion dollars a year, so we’re just not ever going to get out of that hole unless we approach this problem…

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