The Department of the Air Force’s installations czar revealed a plan Dec. 11 to fix Air Force and Space Force facilities that are increasingly in a state of decay, including airfields, water and electrical systems, munitions storage, and other critical base facilities.
The Defense Department has not fulfilled a Congressional mandate to submit a plan for weaning U.S. military bases in Europe off of Russian energy, which could “be helping to fund the Russian war effort to the tune of a million dollars a week,” according to ...
The Air Force is looking into a range of technologies, community partnerships, and third-party financing techniques to keep bases at home and downrange powered up in the event of bad weather or an attack by an adversary.
The Air Force is taking steps towards starting a geothermal plant at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, as part of a larger effort to make the branch’s energy infrastructure more resilient and sustainable.
A new paper written by an Air Force engineer warns of a major vulnerability on U.S. military bases overseas: the power infrastructure.
Miniature nuclear power units that could either provide emergency electricity for domestic bases or power for units deployed to austere locations are under development, Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief Ellen Lord told reporters March 4. “We’re looking at small, modular nuclear reactors,” Lord said at ...