Operational Energy Prototyping (OEP)

Abstract

Operational Energy Prototyping (OEP) will identify and demonstrate the most promising, innovative, and cost-effective technologies and methods that address joint high-priority operational energy requirements. OEP funding efforts will identify and mitigate energy-related risks and increase warfighting capabilities and resilience. OEP will invest in prototype and demonstrations in three focus areas: •Powering the Force: Support the deployment of mobile and distributed operations with resilient and agile energy logistics in contested environments. Reduce the risks, vulnerability, and climate impacts of DoD’s dependence on fuel. •Electrifying the Battlespace: Enable the electrification of weapons, platforms, unmanned systems, and soldiers to field new weapon, sensing, active defense, and other technologies. Meet the growing demands of power across the battlespace. •Commanding Energy: Capture and understand energy profiles to transform the Joint Force from a reactive to a predictive energy management and control. Achieve real-time energy awareness and command and control at all levels. OEP serves as the program by which operational energy technology advances made under the Operational Energy Capability Innovation (OECI) can transition to military service acquisition programs. Transition plans for each prototype will be established to ensure that components have time to plan, program, and budget for technology transition to programs of record.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0604555D8Z_4_0400_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: OEP is a new program element in FY 2022. The Secretary of Defense, per Section 324(c)(1) of the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, is required to “carry out a program for the demonstration of technologies related to operational energy prototyping, including demonstration of operational energy technology” through the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment. Establishing OEP meets this Congressional requirement.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Energy and Power Technologies
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Active Defense
• Battlespace
• Climate Change
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Costs
• Demonstrations
• Deployment
• Energy Management
• Logistics
• National Security
• Product Prototyping
• Prototypes
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Systems

Readers

• Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Autonomy
• Autonomy - UAVs
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control