installation resilience

‘Pivot to Resilience’ Changes Focus of Installation Energy Investments 0
- Energy, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- November 15, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Energy efficiency and conservation projects have taken a back seat to investments aimed at enhancing energy resilience across DOD. “I would suggest we’re in a pivot to resilience,” Jack Surash, acting deputy assistant secretary of the Army for energy and sustainability, told the DOD Energy & Water Forum last week. The Army
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Utilities Privatization Supports Army Effort to Improve Installation Resilience 0
- Defense Real Estate, Energy
- November 13, 2018
Washington, D.C. — The Army’s utility privatization program has produced enormous financial benefits, as well as improved reliability and reduced consumption for utilities that have been transferred to the private sector, Curt Wexel, utilities privatization program manager for the Army’s assistant chief of staff for installation management, told the DOD Energy & Water Forum Friday.
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Sustainment Chief to Focus on Installation Resilience 0
- Military Families, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- November 12, 2018
Washington, D.C. — The Pentagon’s new installations, energy and logistics chief said creating and sustaining resilient installations would be one of his top priorities, during remarks Thursday at ADC’s Defense Policy Forum. Robert McMahon, who was sworn in as DOD’s first assistant secretary of defense for sustainment last month, refrained, however, from defining what he
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Community Adjustment Assistance Expanded to Deal with Threats to Installation Resilience 0
- Congress/DoD
- September 14, 2018
DOD’s Office of Economic Adjustment will have the authority to offer grants to states and local governments for assistance to address threats to military installation resilience which could hinder base operations, under language in the fiscal 2019 defense authorization bill. Section 2805 defines installation resilience as the capability of an installation to adapt to and
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