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Office of Disaster Recovery: officials project hundreds of millions in FY2026 disaster spending, push to speed contracts
Summary
The Office of Disaster Recovery told the budget committee it expects to spend a conservative $643.5 million of obligated disaster recovery funds in FY2026 and urged rapid contracting to meet federal timetables while flagging the need to accelerate annual spending to roughly $2 billion to move the larger recovery program forward.
Adrian Williams Octalin, director of the Office of Disaster Recovery, told the Committee on Budget, Appropriations and Finance that the office expects to obligate and spend a substantial portion of disaster recovery funding in FY2026 but that executing large construction projects will require an aggressive contracting schedule.
“The expenditures come as the projects progress,” Williams Octalin said. She added that hospitals, schools and other large projects will have multi-year construction timelines, and that the ODR’s FY26 projection of $643.5…
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