The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) (Arlington, Virginia, USA) is now seeking proposals for demonstrations of innovative environmental and installation energy technologies as candidates for funding beginning in the 2019 fiscal year.
The government agency is making the funding available through its Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), which supports the demonstration of technologies that address priority DoD environmental and installation energy requirements.
The goal of ESTCP is to promote the transfer of innovative technologies through demonstrations that collect data needed for regulatory and DoD end-user acceptance. Projects conduct formal demonstrations at DoD facilities and sites in operational settings to document and validate improved performance and cost savings.
The current solicitation requests pre-proposals via calls for proposals to U.S. federal organizations and via a broad agency announcement (BAA) for private sector organizations. Pre-proposals are due by March 8, 2018.
Detailed instructions are available on the ESTCP web site underneath the “Funding Opportunities” header.
DoD organizations, such as service and defense agencies, may submit pre-proposals in topic areas including environmental restoration; munitions response underwater; resource conservation and resiliency; weapons systems and platforms; energy efficiency technology demonstrations integrated with utility energy services contracts (UESC); the effective use of utility and facility data to improve the management, operation, and maintenance of facilities; and large-scale energy storage and microgrids.
Meanwhile, the BAA and call for proposals for federal organizations outside DoD are seeking pre-proposals for technologies in areas including innovative technology transfer approaches; long-term management of contaminated aquatic sediments; management of contaminated groundwater; the detection, classification, and remediation of military munitions in underwater environments; DoD installation infrastructure risk exposure and resilience decision support tools; demonstration and/or validation of fluorine-free aqueous film forming foam; energy efficiency technology demonstrations integrated with UESC; effective use of utility and facility data to improve the management, operation, and maintenance of facilities; and large-scale energy storage and microgrids.
Further details are available in an online “ESTCP Funding Opportunities” webinar, for which information is available at the ESTCP web site.