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_ .I._. Back to the previous pa .................... News from Inside the Pentagon provided by the InsideDefense NewsStand DSB task force report wrapping up VULNERABLE ELECTRIC GRID PROMPTS CALL FOR ENERGY- INDEPENDENT BASES Dat?: Siaq’ 31.2007 An influential advisory panel to Defense Secretary Robert Gates will soon recommend the Pentagon protect critical domestic military installations by making them energy independent, a move intended to wean the U.S. military from America’s electrical grid which the panel believes is vulnerable to tenorist attack and natural disaster. James Schlesinger, a former defense and energy secretary, is concluding a yearlong Defense Science Board task force he is leading that proposes the Pentagon prepare for failures of the electrical grid -- on which U. S. facilities heavily rely -- by “islanding,” a concept that envisions installations generatins their own power, according to sources familiar with the report. “The grid is fragile,” said one source familiar with the panel’s deliberations. “So there was some concern in the task force about DOD’s ability to operate in the event of a grid failure for an extended period of time.” In iZugust 2003, a massive blackout hit huge swaths of the Northeast, Midwest and Ontario, Canada. affecting tens of millions of people. This power outage was traced, in part, to overgown trees in Ohio that touched high-voltage electrical lines, setting in motion sequential blackouts that eventually knocked more than 100 power plants offline Susceptibility to deliberate attack is also a concern. ”They had a variety of scenarios that they were very concerned about,” said the source, who declined to discuss any of the particular scenarios. The panel -- which Pentagon acquisition executive Kenneth Krieg commissioned to examine a wide range of issues, including “opportunities for DOD to produce energy for its own use” -- will recommend that domestic bases shift from the electric grid to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy and possibly by small-scale nuclear power plants, the sources said. The “Task Force on DOD Energy Strategy” is also set to recommend the Defense Department establish a senior executive responsible for energy leadership, although it is expected to stop short of calling for an “energy czar.” as some members of the task force had proposed. On the issue of carbon-based fuels, the DSB is not expected to advance any far-reaching recommendations. The panel is expected to endorse many steps the Defense Department has taken over the last year to bring greater attention to energy efficiency both at facilities and across its fleet of weapon systems. Last month, Krieg established a pilot program that requires three next-generation weapon system programs to consider energy efficiency as a key part of their designs, a significant step that could pave the way for economic fuel consumption to play a prominent role in planning for future U.S. combat capabilities.
The InsideDefense Newsstand Page 2 of 2 -‘Effective immediately, it is DOD policy to include the fully burdened cost of delivered energy in tradeoff analyses conducted for all tactical systems with end items that create a demand for energy and to improve the energy efficiency of those systems, consistent with missions and requirements and cost effectiveness,” Kneg wrote in an April 10 memo. The three programs tapped for this project are the Air Force’s future long-range strike aircraft, the Army and Marine Corps Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and the Navy’s next-generation cruiser, CG(X). The DSB is also expected to endorse a number of other recommendations of an internal Defense Department Energy Security Task Force which last September produced what oficials involved in the effort say is a comprehensive roadmap to platform efficiency, establishing alternative fuels programs and accelerating initiatives to make defense installations more energy emcient. As a result of these efforts, the Pentagon last fall added $13 1 million to its fiscal year 2008 to 2013 spending plan for research and development of energy-efficiency technologies, according to Pentagon officials. Among the research projects slated for additional investments, according to Pentagon officials, are: a lightweight ground vehicle fuel efficiency demonstrator designed to facilitate a 30 percent decrease in fuel consumption and work on lightweight transmissions and enhanced efficiency engines; the Transportable Hybrid Electric Power system, an effort to utilize renewable energy sources to power forward-deployed units in order to reduce the number of resupply convoys that have been vulnerable to attack in places such as Iraq; and the Highly Efficient Embedded Turbine Engine, which developers hope will provide a 25 percent decrease in fuel consumption for aircraft by revisiting the core geometries and temperatures of turbine engines. - Jason Sherman PENTAGON-23-22- 14 0 2005 Inside Washington Publishers Reproduction or redistribution forbidden without express permission of the publishers http://defense.iwpnewsstand.com
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