creased focus to include updating its strategy to more
fully integrate energy initiatives.
Key to this internal department Research & De-
velopment (R&D) effort is the fact that all services are
aggressively pursuing solutions to sustainability of
soldier and mission requirements in contingency en-
vironments. It would be most efficient and effective
to have a strong coordinated effort across services to
maximize the advancements in research and lessons
learned in testing and fielding. As stated earlier, in-
teroperability provides the most benefits to our forces
to be sustainable at every phase of an operation. The
Strategic Environmental Research and Development
program (SERDP) is an OSD level organization that
was specifically mentioned in the February 2010 QDR
to be the lead for climate change impact analysis (Gates
2010a, 86). SERDP partners with DOE and EPA as well
as other Federal Agencies. This is a powerful partner-
ship that could provide great unity of effort between
the DOD services as well as adding interagency ex-
pertise in sustainability R&D. Part of the Army EQT
strategy should be greater functional lines of commu-
nication with SERDP in order to better utilize its col-
laborative framework.
In addition, a key venue to advance the Army’s
sustainable technology efforts in the EQT strategy is
the capacity of the newly established Center for the
Advancement of Sustainability Innovations (CASI)
within the Engineering, Research and Development
Center (ERDC) of the Corps of Engineers at Cham-
paign, Illinois. CASI has already initiated interservice
coordination projects so there is great opportunity for
CASI to expand collaboration with the Navy Research
Lab in Washington DC, and the Air Force Research
Lab at Wright Patterson. Both of those services are in-
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