Operational Energy Capability Improvement

Abstract

The Operational Energy Prototyping (OEP) program prototypes, validates, and demonstrates the most promising, innovative, and cost-effective technologies and methods that address joint, high-priority, operational energy requirements. This program supports the Department's initiatives to Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage and a Resilient Joint Force. The OEP program matures and demonstrates technology that enables increased operational reach, reduces emissions and logistical burdens that will support the Department’s strategic goals to deter aggression and strategic attacks against the United States, allies, and partners, while being prepared to prevail in conflict when necessary, prioritizing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) challenge in the Indo-Pacific, and the Russia challenge in Europe. OEP is the Department’s dedicated investment for Operational Energy Prototype development, validation, and warfighter demonstration to address joint operational energy requirements. Investments in OEP support current policy objectives and inform future policy goals. The OEP program prototypes, validates, and demonstrates the most promising, innovative, and cost-effective technologies and methods that address joint, high-priority, operational energy requirements. This program supports the Department's initiatives to Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage and a Resilient Joint Force. The OEP program matures and demonstrates technology that enables increased operational reach, reduces emissions and logistical burdens that will support the Department’s strategic goals to deter aggression and strategic attacks against the United States, allies, and partners, while being prepared to prevail in conflict when necessary, prioritizing the PRC challenge in the Indo-Pacific, and the Russia challenge in Europe. OEP is the Department’s dedicated investment for Operational Energy Prototype development, validation, and warfighter demonstration to address joint operational energy requirements. Investments in OEP support current policy objectives and inform future policy goals. OEP funding efforts will identify and mitigate energy-related risks and increase warfighting capabilities and resilience. OEP will invest in prototyping, validating, 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 the 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 reactive to 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 are 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, 2024
• Source ID: 0604555D8Z_4_0400_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2024 decrease due to a reduction of technology road mapping efforts within operational energy innovations and deconfliction of efforts across the Services.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Climate Change
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Command And Control
• Energy
• Energy Management
• Energy Storage
• Energy Systems
• Military Capabilities
• Operational Effectiveness
• Renewable Energy
• Solar Cells
• Strategic Attack
• Tactical Vehicles
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• Unmanned Systems

Readers

• Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

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