The P&E Special Meeting focused on the requirements and metrics, science and technology, Modeling and Simulation (M&S), processes, and methodologies needed to address the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s (OSD’s) Energy Policy to consider operational energy risk from logistics demand and how to frame Energy Efficiency Key Performance Parameters. The P&E Special Meeting also addressed the national security challenge of the combined criticality of operations reliant on stable energy sources and the vulnerability of the power grid and fuel distribution system.
BACKGROUND
The Department of Defense (DoD) planning community has come to focus on future (near- to long-term) operational environments that encompass a range of irregular, hybrid, and high-intensity anti-access threats as our most likely planning concerns. Opponents capabilities in each environment will likely present more significant threats to logistics lines of supply, making the high fuel demand of both US combat and combat support forces a much greater operational vulnerability than in the past. These findings are reinforced by operational experience in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), where softer, high-volume supply lines have at times been a prime target. The analytic challenge is to determine the value of taking risk in or investing to reduce energy demand in the future force versus other variables in the tradespace, whether that’s in force planning, capability gap analyses, system design and engineering, or in science and technology investment. Also included in this is installation energy security. There is a growing realization, in the DoD, in federal and state governments, and in the private sector, that the combined criticality of operations reliant on stable energy sources and high vulnerability of the power grid and fuel distribution system have created a serious national security challenge.
Other secondary motivations have brought DoD energy concerns to the fore, including the long-term trend toward increases in budget-year energy costs as well as the general growth in the size of the combat support force compared to combat forces. The purpose is to capture fiscal costs of the entire fuel supply chain and its force protection requirements when making affordability decisions in acquisition programs.
Working Groups
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Monday, 30 November 2009
1000 - 1200 Registration for Tutorials
1300 - 1600 Tutorials/Background briefings
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1300-1350
Defense Policies and Operational Energy
Mr. Dave Bak, Sr. Policy Analyst, OUSD(ATL)
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1400-1450
Calculating the Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel (Defense Acquisition Guidebook Method)
Mr. Rick Cotman, Operations Research Analyst, OUSD(ATL)
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1500-1550
Fuel and Water for OEF: Towards Developing “Fully Burdened Costs”
Mr. Edward R. Blankenship, Operations Research Analyst, HQMC P&R PA&E
Dr. Randal T. Cole, Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
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1615 WG and Synthesis Chair/Co-Chair Warm-up
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
0700 - 0800 Registration & Continental Breakfast
0800 - 1130 Plenary I:
Keynote Speaker -
RADM William R. Burke
Director, Naval Warfare Integration Group (N00X) /
Navy Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)
Biography Keynote Presentation
Plenary Speaker -
LTG Michael A. Vane
Deputy Commanding General
Army Capabilities Integration Center
Biography Plenary Presentation
Plenary Speaker -
Mr. Tom Morehouse
Consultant on Power and Energy to OUSD(ATL) & AF
Biography
1130 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1700 Working Group Breakout Session 1
1700 - 1730 End of Day Wrap-Up WG Chairs and Co-Chairs
1730 - 1930 Welcome Mixer
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
0800 - 1200 Working Group Breakout Session 2
1200 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1700 Working Group Breakout Session 3
1730 - 1800 End of Day Wrap-Up WG Chairs and Co-Chairs
Thursday, 3 December 2009
0800 - 1200 Working Group Breakout Session 4
1200 - 1300 Lunch
1300 - 1600 Plenary II: Synthesis & WG out briefs
1600 - 1630 Wrap-up & Closing remarks
Friday, 4 December, 2009
0800 - 1600 WG Chairs prepare final report
WBB, Inc. Corporate Headquarters, Reston, VA
11790 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20191
MAP AND DIRECTIONS (PowerPoint)
FREE PARKING available around the Sheraton and in the garage under the WBB building.
Follow the signs to the garage access on the back of the building.
From D.C., Pentagon & Crystal City
Driving:
- Take Interstate 66 West and follow the exit signs for Washington/Dulles Airport to 267 West Toll.
- Continue on 267 West to Reston Parkway, Exit 12.
- From there turn left on Reston Parkway.
- At the second light turn left again on Sunrise Valley Drive.
- WBB is 1/4 mile further on the left.
Public transportation:
From Dulles Airport
- Take the Dulles access to 267 East.
- Take Exit 12 to Reston Parkway and turn right.
- Go to the first light and turn left on Sunrise Valley Drive.
- WBB is 1/4 mile down on the left.
Shuttle transportation is available to the Sheraton and Westin hotels.
From North
- Take Capital Beltway Interstate 495, take the exit for Washington/Dulles Airport/Toll Road West.
- Follow 267 West to Reston Parkway, Exit 12.
- Turn left on Reston Parkway to the second light and then turn left again on Sunrise Valley Drive.
- WBB is 1/4 mile further on the left.
From South
- Take Capital Beltway I-495 North, take the exit for Washington/Dulles Airport/Toll Road West.
- Follow 267 West to Reston Parkway, Exit 12.
- Turn left on Reston Parkway to the second light and then turn left again on Sunrise Valley Drive.
- WBB is 1/4 mile further on the left.