The objective of this project was to integrate the Comprehensive Asset Master Planning Solution (CAMPS) Dashboard with the Net Zero Planner (NZP) and demonstrate its effectiveness and readiness for Department of War (DoW)-wide applicability. The rationale was that data already in the Master Planning tool could be imported into the energy tool with a much lower level of effort than is required to gather and enter the data into the energy planning tool manually. As the largest single tenant in the country, DoW spends billions of dollars on energy and is tasked by several initiatives and energy directives to reduce energy costs. This unified tool would enable visualization of energy flows, flag facilities that show excessive energy use, automate identification of facility-level Energy Efficiency Measures, and generate opportunities for district-level solutions. This tool would also show that a web-based enterprise solution can be made available across the DoW at low cost and high availability, along with demonstrating that this repeatable process is easy to use and increases understanding of energy flows by end users at the installation.

This demonstration drew on the strengths of two existing planning software programs: CAMPS and NZP. On its own, CAMPS has powerful data integration and visualization capabilities for installation management but lacks energy analysis and forecasting abilities. NZP is designed as an Energy, Water, Waste, and Storm Water analysis tool. The technology included two steps: (1) The CAMPS/NZP software was validated by comparing a baseline Sustainability Component Plan (SCP) process using NZP alone and the SCP process performed using a combined CAMPS and NZP Planner; and (2) energy planning was integrated into the Master Planning process using web-based enterprise software and models. 

The combined tool was demonstrated at both Fort Hood and Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, demonstrating reductions in cost and time requirements for energy planning, improved understanding of energy use by installation users through graphic visualization, and the capability to produce supporting data for project documentation. The integrated CAMPS/NZP married the automated data import and ease-of-use visualization of CAMPS into the analytic robustness of NZP to significantly reduce the level of effort to perform energy master planning. 

Information Security and receiving an Authority to Operate presents an issue at the installation level. Users agreed that the combined tool set was easy to use and helped them to visualize and explain energy Courses of Action. If the installation does not have the data already existing in a system such as CAMPS, there was not a benefit for the first time it was set up. There is still a significant benefit of about 200 person-hours if the report generation can be completely automated. The use of existing data rather than gathering new data every time could represent a significant cost savings. Future service–specific system, whether System Master Planner-NZP, CAMPS, or other, will benefit from the technology demonstrated in this project. (Project Completion - 2022)