On April 17, 2018, the first US-funded building of a military facility in the Philippines began with a groundbreaking ceremony led by the host country’s Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and the US Ambassador in Manila, Sung Kim. This is being done under an agreement signed in 2014 known as the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA). The first US-funded building is located at Basa Airforce Base in Pampanga.