REPI 2013- Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative
Abstract
The Department of Defense (DoD) ability to deploy and support operational forces, perform realistic live-fire training, and conduct weapons system testing is vital to maintaining military readiness, and encroachment pressures threaten these activities. By promoting innovative land conservation solutions that benefit both military readiness and the environment, the DoD Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) ensures that our military can conduct effective and realistic testing, training, and operations now and in the future. Under REPI, DoD partners with conservation organizations and state and local governments to preserve buffer land around installations and ranges. Preserving such areas allows DoD to maintain critical test and training capabilities that help protect military readiness, while avoiding more costly alternatives such as workarounds, segmentation, or spending to replace existing assets. At the same time, DoD partnerships support sustainable communities and help preserve the environment. Finally, through the development of unique cost-sharing agreements that multiply DoD investments, REPI supports the Warfighter and protects the taxpayer. Beginning in the 1990s, base and mission commanders recognized that commercial and residential development proximate to installations threatened the viability of those installations. Since REPI first developed partnerships in 2003, there has been a dramatic change in how DoD responds to conservation and military operations issues. Through REPI, DoD works with stakeholder organizations at all levels regarding land conservation issues. Such protections help preserve land vital to military testing and training, consequently protecting our national security.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- AD1180103
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense