Department of Defense (DoD): GLRPPR Sector Resources

News: U.S. Army signs onto 20 MW solar farm, biggest in military

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:54:34 GMT

In addition to installing solar, the Army also planted 14,700 trees and created biking and walking paths that wind through the complex.

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News: U.S. Air Force flies high on energy efficiency

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:56:49 GMT

The U.S. Air Force, the largest single energy consumer in the federal government, released its Energy Strategic Plan, which will continue its successful efforts in cutting energy use.

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News: How GIS helps the Navy reduce its energy consumption

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:41:01 GMT

Like many organizations, the Navy decided to reduce its energy consumption in an effort to cut costs and become more environmentally-friendly, but unlike many organizations, that feat for the Navy involved looking at its facilities all the way from a global perspective down to a local one. In order to achieve this, the Navy used GIS software to develop the Navy Shore Geospatial Energy Program, which Sandrine Schultz presented during day two of the Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, D.C., last week.

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News: Military Base Saves $300,000 with Composting

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:27:17 GMT

The US military composted 670 tons of food waste at its Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Wash., in 2012, diverting the food from landfills and saving $300,000 in disposal costs, the base's official newspaper The Northwest Guardian reports.

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News: Leading by example: Obama administration releases federal agency strategic sustainability performance plans

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:23:32 GMT

Continuing the Obama Administration's commitment to lead by example and cut waste, pollution, and costs in Federal operations, Federal agencies today released their 2012 Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans. President Obama signed Executive Order 13514 on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance in October 2009, setting aggressive targets for reducing waste and pollution in Federal operations by 2020. The Sustainability Plans build on three years of progress under the Executive Order and provide an overview of how agencies are saving taxpayer dollars, reducing carbon emissions, cutting waste, and saving energy.

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Funding Opportunity: Department of Defense Environmental Security Technology Certification Program Installation Energy Solicitation

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:23:34 GMT

The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), supports the demonstration of technologies that address priority DoD installation energy requirements. The demonstrations are intended to generate supporting cost and performance data needed for validation of the technology. The goal is to accelerate the deployment of innovative energy technologies and to enable promising technologies to receive end-user acceptance and be fielded and commercialized more rapidly.

ESTCP is seeking proposals for demonstrations of energy technologies on DoD installations as candidates for funding in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014. The solicitation requests pre-proposals via Calls for Proposals to DoD organizations and Non-DoD Federal organizations and via a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Private Sector organizations.

ESTCP requests pre-proposals for the following topics:

Smart and Secure Military Installation Energy Management; and
Advanced Building Energy Management and Control.

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Resource: Energy Reduction at U.S. Air Force Facilities Using Industrial Processes: A Workshop Summary

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:06:23 GMT

The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest consumer of energy in the federal government. In turn, the U.S. Air Force is the largest consumer of energy in the DoD, with a total annual energy expenditure of around $10 billion. Approximately 84 percent of Air Force energy use involves liquid fuel consumed in aviation whereas approximately 12 percent is energy (primarily electricity) used in facilities on the ground. This workshop was concerned primarily with opportunities to reduce energy consumption within Air Force facilities that employ energy intensive industrial processes--for example, assembly/disassembly, painting, metal working, and operation of radar facilities--such as those that occur in the maintenance depots and testing facilities. Air Force efforts to reduce energy consumption are driven largely by external goals and mandates derived from Congressional legislation and executive orders. To date, these goals and mandates have targeted the energy used at the building or facility level rather than in specific industrial processes. In response to a request from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science, Technology, and Engineering, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Air Force Studies Board, formed the Committee on Energy Reduction at U.S. Air Force Facilities Using Industrial Processes: A Workshop. The terms of reference called for a committee to plan and convene one 3 day public workshop to discuss: (1) what are the current industrial processes that are least efficient and most cost ineffective? (2) what are best practices in comparable facilities for comparable processes to achieve energy efficiency? (3) what are the potential applications for the best practices to be found in comparable facilities for comparable processes to achieve energy efficiency? (4) what are constraints and considerations that might limit applicability to Air Force facilities and processes over the next ten year implementation time frame? (5) what are the costs and paybacks from implementation of the best practices? (6) what will be a proposed resulting scheme of priorities for study and implementation of the identified best practices? (7) what does a holistic representation of energy and water consumption look like within operations and maintenance?

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Funding Opportunity: Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP)

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:32:05 GMT

The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), supports the demonstration of technologies that address priority DoD environmental requirements. The goal of ESTCP is to promote the transfer of innovative environmental technologies through demonstrations that collect the data needed for regulatory and DoD end-user acceptance. Projects conduct formal demonstrations at DoD facilities and sites in operational settings to document and validate improved performance and cost savings.

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Resource: Estimating climate change effects on installation energy use

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:57:21 GMT

In its 2009 report, the U.S. Global Change Research Program stated that climate change impacts are already being observed across the United States, and ecosystems and society are going to have to adapt to the ongoing changes in climate. As a result, Executive Order 13514 of October 5, 2009, directed the formation of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, jointly chaired by the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and staffed with representatives from more than 20 federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (DOD). The task force recently recommended that the federal government expand and strengthen the nation's capacity to prepare for climate change. The task force further recommended that federal agencies make adaptation a standard part of agency planning. Following the recommendations of the task force, as well as direction from the National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Climate Change and the Quadrennial Defense Review, DOD is now beginning to develop policies to ensure that climate change is properly accounted for in the department's infrastructure planning process. Many aspects of installation infrastructure and management are subject to the effects of climate change. The challenge that is discussed most often is sea level rise and its obvious implications for coastal installations. Drought and its implications for water supply are also often discussed, as are the increase in severity of hurricanes and tropical storms and the resulting flooding and damage to structures. In this memo, we look at an obvious but seldom discussed implication of climate change for installation managers: rising temperatures and their implications for installation energy use.

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Resource: Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Trends and Implications of Climate Change for National and International Security

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:44:37 GMT

The task force examined the implications of climate change from a global perspective,with a special focus on the African continent, and makes recommendations that can improve the U.S. approach to addressing the many challenges of climate change. First, they identified a need for a strong climate information system database, managed by the Department of Defense. Second, the task force recommends a whole of government approach to mitigating the effects of climate change and highlights the importance of engaging with international leaders in identifying global solutions.

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