Agenda at a Glance

Renewable energy is a national priority, but industry trends are uneven and the impact on the military mission is under review. Siting considerations, stipulations, and other forms of mitigation will help reduce impacts on the national defense mission. Renewable energy can also provide energy security for military facilities. Department of Defense installations may offer possible prototyping opportunities for industry and other agencies. The military services have set ambitious renewable energy goals; but in the end, these efforts must support the Department’s national defense mission first. This session will include presentations from DoD mission experts, industry representatives, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies.

Climate Change Adaptation (Back to Top)
Chair:  Colonel Bart Barnhart, Chief, Sustainable Installations, Office of the Secretary of Defense (Presentation Not Available)

Dr. Bruce Stein, Director, Climate Change Adaptation, National Wildlife Federation (PDF Presentation)
Fred Pease, DoD/DOI Liaison, Immediate Office of the Secretary of the Interior (PDF Presentation)
Anthony Veerkamp, Director of Programs, National Trust for Historic Preservation Western Office (PDF Presentation)
Rob Mickler, Program Manager, Alion Science and Technology, Inc. (PDF Presentation)

Climate-related changes are already being observed in every region of the world, including the United States and its coastal waters.  DoD's operational readiness hinges on continued access to land, air, and sea training and test space.  Consequently, the Department must adjust to the impacts of climate change on our facilities and military capabilities.  Because implementation of adaptation strategies will occur primarily at the installation scale for DoD, it will be important to define how climate change and variability will shape adaptation decisions at that scale.  This session will explore adapting to changes in climate from the perspectives of sustaining military readiness, continuing to meet DoD's stewardship responsibilities toward natural and cultural resources, and maintaining DoD's across-the-fence relationships with stakeholders in the context of ensuring respective adaptation decisions are mutually supportive.

Emerging Issue Cross Cutting Session Descriptions

Thriving through Innovation: Linking Conservation, Working Lands, and National Defense (Back to Top)
Chair: David J. O'Neill, Director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Eastern Partnership Office, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (Presentation Not Available)

Major General Carl B. Jensen, U.S. Marine Corps (PDF Presentation)
Peter Stangel, Senior Vice President, U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (PDF Presentation)
Peter R. Stein, Managing Director, Lyme Timber Company (PDF Presentation)

In a world of fewer resources and more demand, the ability of the military to train in the future will depend on our ability to form partnerships with a myriad of other agencies and entities with different missions, but similar needs to better use resources at hand. Strategies are needed that bring together private landowners, local governments, non-government organizations, state agencies and other federal agencies to mutually plan a future on multiple scales that includes protecting the military mission footprint, while achieving the goals of the other partnership organizations and entities. Learn how the  intersection of values underlying conservation, working lands, and national defense provides an exceptional opportunity to demonstrate how seemingly disparate and often competing interests are complementary and supportive in meeting multiple mission objectives – innovation connecting land, connecting missions, and connecting people.

"Smart from the Start": Charting a Course for DoD and Offshore Renewable Energy Development (Back to Top)
Chair:  Frank C. DiGiovanni, SES, Director, Training Readiness and Strategy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness) (Presentation Not Available)

Maureen Bornholdt, Program Manager, Offshore Alternative Energy Program, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) (PDF Presentation)
Joceyln Karazsia, Fishery Biologist, NOAA Fisheries Service (PDF Presentation)
Peter Mandelstam, President, NRG Bluewater Wind (PDF Presentation)
Maureen Matsen, Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources and Senior Advisor on Energy, Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of Governor McDonnell (Presentation Not Available)
Laura Smith Morton, Senior Advisor, Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (PDF Presentation)
Mark A. Sadd, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (PDF Presentation)

In November 2010, Department of the Interior (DoI) Secretary Salazar announced the Smart from the Start initiative that will expedite developing the 10.3 gigawatts of potential wind energy resources on the Atlantic outer continental shelf (OCS). DoD is working closely with DoI, other federal agencies, tribal governments, and coastal state governments to ensure that offshore renewable energy development is compatible with testing, training, and operational equities on the OCS. DoD is also interested in using offshore renewable power to provide energy security at coastal installations and to meet Departmental goals for renewable energy consumption. Renewable marine power resources; tidal, current, and wave generation, will be developed in other coastal regions such as the Pacific Northwest. In all cases, DoD is working to identify stipulations and mitigations that will minimize the impact of these energy technologies on offshore testing, training and operations.

Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: The Benefits of Early Planning (Back to Top)
Chair:  Peter Boice, Deputy Director, Natural Resources, The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment (Presentation Not Available)

Sharon Cunniff, Director, Chemical and Material Risk Management, Department of Defense (PDF Presentation)
Ed Gerstein, President, Leviathan Legacy Inc. (PDF Presentation)
Robert N. Knight, Natural Resource Program Manager, Dugway Proving Ground
James D Wilde, PhD, RPA, Archaeologist, Cultural Resources SME, Air Force Center for Engineering and Environment (PDF Presentation)

Future Issue Cross Cutting Session Descriptions

The Future of the Training & Testing Missionscape: A Mixed Reality (Back to Top)
Chair:  Frank C. DiGiovanni, SES, Director, Training Readiness and Strategy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness) (Presentation Not Available)

Jeff Fanto, Growth Project Coordinator, Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners (PDF Presentation)
Chris Paust, CTEIP, Deputy Program Manager, Test Resource Management Center, Office of the Secretary of Defense (PDF Presentation)
Bill Rogers, Head, Environmental Conservation Branch, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune (PDF Presentation)
Thomas M. Sanderson, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Transnational Threats Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (Presentation Not Available)
David A. Smith, Chief Innovation Officer, Lockheed Martin (Presentation Not Available)
Leticia Van de Putte, Texas State Senator, The National Conference of State Legislatures (Presentation Not Available)
Andy Yatsko, Senior Archaeologist, Navy Region Southwest, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest (PDF Presentation)

DoD's training and testing requirements are evolving. Technology both in emerging weapons systems and those that support testing and training will help shape the mix of virtual and live training environments. Come hear current thoughts on how this mix is evolving and where it is headed, their interdependencies, and how it may shape requirements for land, airspace, seaspace, and spectrum and drive associated stewardship requirements. We will also discuss how cooperative long-range planning and partnering can help link installation, local, regional, and national requirements and support mission accomplishment.

Water is the New Oil (Back to Top)
Chair:  Maureen Sullivan, Director, Environmental Management, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations & Environment) (Presentation Not Available)

Jack May, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Defense Intelligence Agency (PDF Presentation)
Jeff Arnold, PhD, Senior Climate Scientist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources (PDF Presentation)
Marc Kodack, Project Manager, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Energy and Sustainability) (PDF Presentation)
Phil Crosbie, Chief, G3 Force integration, G3, National Training Center (NTC), Ft Irwin, California (PDF Presentation)

Water generally is considered a renewable resource; however, a host of widespread factors, such as population growth that fuels globally increased water usage for agricultural, industrial, energy production, and personal uses even if per capita use goes down; increased evaporative losses and runoff losses from earlier snowmelts due to rising global and regional temperatures; and the inappropriate uses of potable water when lower quality water may be adequate, all contribute to limiting access to adequate, sustainable supplies of high quality water. Although problems of access vary spatially and temporally, their growth in extent and duration will contribute towards political strife and regional instability in many parts of the world. The historic water rights systems of many countries and their effect on supplies result in users experiencing water scarcity in the face of drought, population growth, or overdrawn aquifers. This session will touch on those water-related issues, such as adequate supply, reasonable cost of production, quality (including salinity), and habitat degradation, that already impact military installations and military operations in many locations within the nation and across the globe. These impacts will only grow in spatial scale and severity in the near and mid terms, which will require better understanding and forecasting of how limited water supplies and increasing water costs could impact the military over the next few decades.