Alford Introduces Strategic Assets Protection Act to Ensure Nuclear Triad Sites Are Secure

Today, Congressman Mark Alford (MO-04) introduced the Strategic Assets Protection Act. This groundbreaking legislation will direct the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review all foreign transactions involving real estate, businesses, critical infrastructure, or assets surrounding facilities associated with the U.S. Nuclear Triad, including Whiteman Air Force Base (AFB), since January 1, 2017.

"America's national security is not for sale," said Congressman Alford. "For years, our foreign adversaries, including the CCP, have been purchasing businesses and real estate near sensitive national security sites with impunity. That ends now. Our nuclear triad is the cornerstone of our deterrence and President Trump's peace through strength agenda. I'm proud to introduce the Strategic Assets Protection Act to ensure our most valuable strategic assets are secure."

Read the text of the bill here.

This legislation directly responds to reports of potential Chinese Communist Party-linked ownership of a trailer park adjacent to Whiteman AFB, home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber fleet, as well as a golf club next to Barksdale AFB, which hosts the Air Force Global Strike Command.

The Strategic Assets Protection Act requires CFIUS to conduct a review of all transactions completed on or after January 1, 2017, that involve real estate, businesses, critical infrastructure, or assets located within, adjacent to, or functionally supporting facilities that host, maintain, modernize, test, command, or control components of the United States nuclear triad, including intercontinental ballistic missile facilities, ballistic missile submarine bases and shipyards, strategic bomber bases, associated weapons storage areas, nuclear command, control, and communications infrastructure, and any National Nuclear Security Administration production or research facilities.

Background:

Following reports suggesting CCP-linked shell companies purchased a trailer park adjacent to Whiteman Air Force Base, Congressman Alford requested and subsequently received a classified briefing on potential threats to Whiteman posed by the transaction.

Congressman Alford also sponsors the American Land and Property Protection Act, which will prohibit any official associated with a foreign adversary from purchasing any type of real estate anywhere in the U.S.

In 2023, Congressman Alford joined forces with Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) to successfully fight to ensure Whiteman AFB was included on CFIUS' list of sensitive national security sites that require enhanced scrutiny.

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