The Pentagon is asking Congress to carve out a dedicated military construction funding stream for defense laboratories and ease limits on smaller construction projects, arguing that aging facilities and competition within the broader MILCON budget are slowing efforts to modernize the military’s research and development enterprise. The Pentagon’s deteriorating research, development, test and evaluation infrastructure is “weakening the Department’s ability to maintain a technically advanced warfighting capability,” according to the findings from a 90-day review of the Defense Research Enterprise...