Objective

In collaboration with each military component, the measuring resilience process (MRP) will develop and demonstrate a single, adaptable energy resilience solution in response to policy guidance in 10U.S.C.§2920, 10U.S.C.§2911 and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) that can quantify and improve the availability of electrical infrastructure at Department of Defense (DoD) installations and provide needed insight to empirically respond to each Service’s specific energy resilience needs.

Technology Description

The MRP helps enable Services to quantify electrical availability of each critical mission load to better assess mission resilience across installations. This process analyzes the failure rate and repair time of each individual electrical component on an installation, from the utility connection to the facility, to deliver the availability and projected downtime for that specific facility. It is not only taking the likelihood of failure and repair time into account but also the architecture of the installation – to include the redundant paths electricity may take to the building in question. In addition, the MRP models potential upgrades to the system. If a critical mission load is underperforming in availability, the MRP can be used to develop, model, and evaluate potential resilience projects to ensure each critical mission facility is able to meet the necessary OSD availability standards. To demonstrate the MRP, the Air Force, Army, and Navy are collaborating to test and scale this technology at installations selected by the Services to provide the critical resilience information in formats that 1) improve energy resilience project design and investment decisions, 2) comply with OSD policy, and 3) provide the flexibility to meet Service-specific and DoD requirements.

Benefits

The Services, in coordination with the Air Force Office of Energy Assurance will jointly demonstrate a quantitative approach to measuring energy resilience for critical missions. Intended benefits of this demonstration include:

  • A joint solution with interest and participation of energy program leaders in each Service to align their resilience measuring methods under a unified process.
  • Mitigation of risk to critical missions by assessing existing infrastructure to identify outage drivers and evaluating possible resilience solutions that will directly decrease downtimes.
  • A useful, repeatable, and technically sound method for reporting, providing trackable metrics, decision making, enhanced design and investment, and cost-effective updating of each Service’s Installation Energy Plans (Air Force), Installation Energy and Water Plans (Army), and Installation Energy Program Summaries (Navy).
  • Significant cost avoidance through a standardized, collaborative approach versus multiple/disparate approaches.
  • The ability to authoritatively state all critical missions are reliably powered and OSD complaint.

(Anticipated Project Completion - 2025)