Demonstrations are sought of technologies or methodologies to improve the overall management of water resources, infrastructure and assets to ensure a reliable, secure, and clean supply of water to support military installation operations. Of particular interest are solutions that include the following capabilities:

• Advances in installation water planning as part of the comprehensive installation Master Planning process.
• Low-cost and efficient metering and analytical approaches to improved understanding of facility and end-use water demand for improved water management.
• Efficient integration of data sources to inform water resilience planning over various time-horizons.
• Improved approaches for stormwater management including advances in modeling and prediction for stormwater flow, testing and validation of innovative tactical stormwater barriers and nature-based solutions designed for stormwater diversion, and wastewater influx management strategies to avoid surging and backflow of wastewater.

Solutions should consider complexities associated with control systems cybersecurity and handling of controlled unclassified information (CUI).

Water reuse technologies should submit to the Building-Scale Water Resiliency Solutions Solicitation Topic Area.

Water resilience solutions will help the DoD ensure a reliable, secure, and clean supply of water to support military installation operations and improve Master Planning outcomes that result in mission-informed capital investments.

The DoD has installations in various climates and geographical areas with different topographies. Many of these locations face increasing water stress due to increased frequency of droughts, wildfires, and other natural hazards. These increased water threats lead to competition for water resources across different needs and missions. Also, the DoD’s aging water infrastructure poses an additional threat to ensuring reliable water supply.