Environmental Quality Technology

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) investigates and evaluates enabling tools and methodologies that support the long-term sustainment of Army training and testing activities. Specific focus is on maintaining regulatory compliance while limiting future Army liability to installation operations and training, and maintaining resilient and adaptive ranges. Project 048 improves the Army's ability to comply with requirements mandated by federal, state, and local environmental/health laws and to reduce the cost of this compliance. Project 835 develops enabling technologies for advanced life cycle analysis, advanced sensing, technologies to empower rapid fielding of next generation energetics, propellants and munitions with focus on the impacts of new materiel that will enter the Army inventory within the next decade and beyond, and enable decision making based on accurate environmental conditions in sparse data environments. Project 895 focuses on reducing hazardous waste generation through process modification and control, materials recycling and substitution, and developing technologies to predict and mitigate range and maneuver constraints associated with current and emerging weapon systems, doctrine, and regulations. Project 896 investigates technologies for ecosystem vulnerability assessment, and ecosystem analysis, monitoring, modeling, and mitigation to support sustainable use of Army lands to reduce or eliminate environmental constraints to military missions, and develops environmental sensor capabilities to enable rapid collection and analysis of data for real-time environmental situational awareness. The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Science and Technology priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Priorities for Long Range Precision Fires and Network/C3I, and supports the Army Strategy for the Environment. Technologies developed in this PE are transitioned to PE 0603728A (Environmental Quality Technology Demonstrations). Work in this PE is performed by the Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, and the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 0602720A_2_2040_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: PE decrease to support Army Modernization Priorities, including robotic engineering for Next Generation Combat Vehicle, and removal of pollution prevention tasks.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Biomedical
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Climate Change
• Combat Vehicles
• Data Analysis
• Energetic Materials
• Engineering
• Environment
• Environmental Health
• Environmental Protection
• Explosives
• Hazardous Waste
• Materials
• Materials Science
• Munitions
• Risk
• Risk Analysis
• Situational Awareness
• United States

Readers

• Environmental Engineering.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.