while improving capabilities and quality of life.
The Super Energy Efficient Contain- erized Living Unit (CLU) Design and Development program will receive $1 million to redesign existing CLUs and to develop a new, highly efficient unit. The team will focus initially on Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, seeking to reduce energy use in renovated CLUs by 54 percent and by 82 percent for the Super CLU.
The Transformative Reductions in Opera- tional Energy Consumption program will receive $3.9 million to identify and assess new and existing technologies that would reduce the energy demand of expedition- ary outposts in tropical environments. Its goal will be to reduce the total energy use of forward operating bases in these envi- ronments by 50 percent in 2016.
The Operation Enduring Freedom Energy Initiative Proving Ground program will receive $1.4 million to establish a baseline for energy and fuel use in expe- ditionary operations in Afghanistan, by systematically evaluating the quanti- tative operational benefits of a broad spectrum of energy-related technologies, such as more efficient heating and air- conditioning units, insulating tent liners, solar tent shades, and hybrid solar- electrical power. The program will help determine which technologies provide the highest operational impact and the best return on investment for deployment.
“So all of these programs are looking at how to lighten the fuel
lighten the footprint, for our deployed forces,” Burke said.
“The reason that we chose this is there have been a number of really impor- tant studies, including one done by the Marine Corps and one done by the [Army] Corps of Engineers for me,” she explained. These studies “identified that
sustainment,
“So a lot of it’s wasting, and it’s a huge target area,” Burke said. “But it’s not an area that the department has focused a lot of research, development, testing, and evaluation in. That was why we wanted to target these specific areas.”
Burke noted that funding these pro- grams is just one part of DoD’s efforts to
REDUCING RISK
Technological advances to help reduce fuel consumption will also lead to fewer convoys on the battlefield and reduced risk. Here, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles line up at Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan, before convoying to Bagram Airfield to provide supplies to various units on Dec. 2, 2011. (Photo by PFC Zackary Root.)
we’re wasting a huge amount of fuel on the battlefield, and that a lot of it goes to generators and to heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems.”
Burke noted one study finding that 75 percent of generator power goes to air- conditioning and heating. Another study demonstrated that “anywhere from 20 percent to upwards of 50 percent of the fuel used at any given location in places like Afghanistan may be going to genera- tors and heating and cooling,” she said.
She also cited a 2011 Marine Corps study stating that heating and air-conditioning accounted for 13 percent of the Corps’ total fuel demand in Afghanistan and 46 percent of its electrical demands.
improve energy use for a more effective and capable force.
“This is a research, development, test, and evaluation effort,” she said. “But we’re also seeing this in the requirements process, the acquisition process, in con- tracting, [and] in rapid fielding to forces in the fight.
“We’re doing all this because we really think this will help us meet the defense mission,” she continued,
“par-
ticularly the changing defense mission as we go forward.”
For more information on the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs, go to http://
energy.defense.gov. For more on the Operational Energy Capabilities Improve- ment
Fund Program, including lead
agencies for the initiatives outlined above, go to
http://energy.defense.gov/Opera- tional_Energy_Capabilities_Improve- ment_Fund_Program_Highlights.pdf.
—SFC Tyrone C. Marshall Jr., American Forces Press Service
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