Report to Congress on Sustainable Ranges, 2013

Abstract

This is the tenth Report to Congress on Sustainable Ranges (hereinafter referred to as the Sustainable Ranges Report [SRR]) which summarizes the Department of Defense s (DoD s) actions to ensure the long-term sustainability of its training ranges. The SRR responds to Section 366 of the fiscal year (FY) 2003 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which requires DoD to develop, and submit to Congress, a comprehensive plan to address training constraints caused by limitations on the use of available military lands, marine areas, and airspace in the United States and overseas. Section 311 of the FY2013 NDAA extended the reporting requirement through FY2018. In December 2001, the Deputy Secretary of Defense directed the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)), in partnership with the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment (DUSD(I&E)), the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), and the Military Departments, to form an Integrated Product Team (IPT). The IPT is the coordinating body for all encroachment issues affecting DoD ranges, operating areas (OPAREAs), and other locations where the military trains, tests, or evaluates new weapons and sensors and provides oversight of DoD s Sustainable Ranges Initiative (SRI). The goal of the SRI is to sustain full operational use of and access to the live training and test domain through proactive policy, planning, and partnerships to avoid and/or mitigate restrictions from competing interests and encroachment. Although this report focuses on DoD training ranges only, it also touches on test and evaluation (T&E) ranges to the extent that these ranges support training activities and in the broader perspective of DoD s overall SRI. The DoD test community separately reports on encroachment factors impacting research, development, test, and evaluation activities in their Strategic Plan for T&E Resources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA594692

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Change Adaptation
  • Energy Conservation
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Habitats
  • Lepidoptera
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • National Security
  • Renewable Energy
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare
  • Wildlife
  • Wind Energy
  • Wind Turbines

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.

Technology Areas

  • Space