IND OPER POLL CTRL TEC
Abstract
This project designs and develops tools and methods to enable the Army to reduce or eliminate environmental impacts both in the United States and abroad. These technologies reduce the impact of legal and regulatory environmental restrictions on installation facilities, training and testing lands and ranges, as well as provide a means to avoid fines and facility shutdowns within the United States and reduce environmental impacts to the Warfighter abroad. New and innovative technologies are essential for the effective control and reduction of military unique hazardous and non-hazardous wastes on military installations and associated with contingency operations bases worldwide. Efforts focus on the impacts of new materiel that will enter the Army inventory within the next decade and beyond. This project focuses on developing sustainable environmental protection technologies that help the Army maintain environmental compliance for sources of industrial pollution such as production facilities, facility contamination and other waste streams. Efforts abroad include a focus on designing and developing technologies for deployed forces with environmentally safe, operationally enhanced and cost effective technologies and/or processes to achieve maximum diversion of, minimization of, or volume reduction of base camp and field waste. Additional work is focused on ecosystem vulnerability assessment, and ecosystem analysis, modeling, mitigation and monitoring technologies for installations associated with air quality and endangered species management. The work in this project supports the Army S&T Enduring Portfolio. The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Science and Technology priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy and supports the Army Strategy for the Environment. Work in this project is performed by the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 048_0602720A_2_2040_PB_2013