Security, Sustainability and Renewables

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The link between “sustainability” and “national security” has become central to the future development of renewable energy. The confluence of the following trends makes critical an understanding of the potential role of the Department of Defense’s recent programs in this regard.

  • National emphasis on Federal support for energy development is shifting from civilian agencies to Defense-led collaborative efforts with civilian agencies. Funding for many of these efforts may be substantially derived from Department of Defense (“Defense”) resources in R&D, procurement, and policy development;
  • Defense’s increasing emphasis on requiring near-term private sector development and delivery of goods and services which meet, and whose resource supply chain support meets, specifically defined sustainability/green procurement requirements;
  • Defense’s focus on using public-private partnerships to involve private investment and risk-taking, drawing upon Departmental experience in provision of housing and other civilian support services.

Defense’s achievement of these objectives is based in part upon the application of a wide range of creative legal innovations building upon pre-existing civilian models:

  • Defense has developed a range of sophisticated interdepartmental cooperative arrangements with USDA, Department of Energy, and other civilian agencies, and arrangements with public lands management and state land use legal requirements.
  • In the course of defining what constitutes “sustainable technology,” Defense legal regulation has contributed to the reformulation of the parameters of environmental product placement, standards of private performance measurement, and the protocols for interface with applicable civilian environmental, utility, regulatory, and land use.
  • Defense is elaborating on the use of public-private partnerships of types already utilized by Federal civilian agencies in providing needed resources such as military housing, energy services, and waste disposal. A detailed body of laws developed in this context is being tailored for that purpose.

This Webinar will provide an illuminating overview of these key technological and legal developments, presented by speakers with current and intimate knowledge of them. It will be introduced by Vice Admiral McGinn, President of ACORE, and will serve as a portal to ACORE’s 2012 National Defense initiative. The initiative will be launched at the National Defense and Renewable Energy Forum on January 26, 2012, and will examine the strategies and the technological and financial opportunities and challenges related to the expanded use of renewable energy in support of national defense.

Q & A Submission:
Q & A both on the teleconference and live at the host firm sites, will follow the speakers' presentations. Please email questions to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Call Times:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Eastern
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Central
10:00 am - 11:30 am Mountain
9:00 am - 10:30 am Pacific
8:00 am - 9:30 am Alaskan

Teleconference Co-Chairs:
Robert F. Riley, Partner, Williams Mullen PC (Washington, D.C.)
Michael W. Wise, McDonald Hopkins, LLC

Legislative Update:
Todd Foley, SVP Policy & Government Relations, ACORE

Moderators:
Roger Feldman, Andrews Kurth LLP
Dennis McGinn, ACORE

Speakers:
Jonathan Powers, Special Advisor on Energy, Assistant Secretary of the Army
Robert E. Tritt, Partner, McKenna, Long & Aldridge (Atlanta)

Program Materials

1. Agenda: December 14th

2. Presentation: Roger Feldman

3. Presentation: Jonathan Powers

4. Presentation: Robert Tritt

5. Speaker & Moderator Biographies

 





























 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 









 
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