Professional Development for Women and Minorities

2023 BEYA (2946) Energy: Enabling the Defense of Nation

03.06.2023 - By Career Communications Group, IncPlay

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Energy is an essential enabler of military capability, and the Department of Defense depends on energy-resilient forces and facilities to achieve its mission. DoD consumed over 85 million barrels of fuel to power ships, aircraft, combat vehicles, and contingency bases at a cost of nearly $9.2 billion. At over 500 worldwide military installations, the Department spent $3.4 billion on energy to power over 585,000 facilities and 160,000 non-tactical vehicles.

Enabling Objectives:

Understand Energy Resilience: Enhancing the military capability, readiness, and resilience of our installations and forces through assured access to resilient and cyber secure fuel and power.

Understand Energy Supply —  Understand emerging technologies that can reduce the use of nonrenewable energysources

-Understand Energy Risk: Identifying, assessing, and integrating energy-related risks into DoD  decision-making associated with requirements, deliberate planning, wargames and exercises, installation master planning, Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP), and investments in forces and installations.

-Understand Energy Performance: Ensuring energy efficiency and lower costs at DoD installations through reliable, efficient use of power and alternative financing mechanisms.

-Understand Cyber Secure risk and Facilities: Reducing the cyber risks to facility related control systems to ensure reliable power for critical missions.

Speakers:

Ernest Smiley, Chief Data Scientist & CISO, Kingdom Capital

Alphonso Trimble, Former Commanding Officer, U.S. Marine Corps

Brig. Gen. Robert Bowie, Special Assistant to the Director, Air National Guard

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