Department of War Energy, Installations, and Environment Innovation Programs

The Department of War�s (DoW) Energy, Installations, and Environment Innovation Programs support the military mission by funding technical and implementation projects that inform effective and efficient military land management on or near DoW installations and ranges to preserve and enhance test, training, and operational capabilities. The projects funded through these programs enable mission-driven use of DoW working lands, protect strategic defense priorities, develop new technologies to facilitate the DoW mission, avoid regulatory restrictions of military lands, and improve military installation resilience. DoW�s Innovation Programs are overseen by three program offices, (1) the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), (2) the Legacy Resource Management Program (Legacy Program), and (3) the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program. All three of these programs fund projects in coordination with the Military Services, private organizations, and Federal, state, and local entities. SERDP/ESTCP ESTCP was established in 1995 for the purpose of demonstrating and validating mature environmental management and natural hazard tools and technologies within the military environment. Its sister program, SERDP was established by Congress in 1990 under 10 U.S. Code (U.S.C.) Section 2901 - 2904 to develop needed tools and technology to address the most pressing environmental management challenges on and adjacent to military lands. Both SERDP and ESTCP seek to...

Government - General, Federal, state (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals), public nonprofit institutions/organizations (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals), Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments, Profit organizations, private nonprofit institutions/organizations (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals). Natural Resources Management; Historic Preservation; Readiness and Range Sustainment; Military Installation Resilience; New and Emerging Technologies; Regulatory and Management Efficiencies; Technology Transfer/Transition; Technology Demonstration and Validation in the Military Environment; Development, Demonstration, and Commercialization of Key Technologies

Projects are screened based on whether they meet legislative criteria and current military and natural or cultural resources management needs. They are prioritized based on such criteria as specific relevance, transferability, broad applicability, return on investment, presence of matching funds, and past performance of the principal investigator.

Fiscal year 2025: SERDP/ESTCP � Demonstrations of prototype Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) cleanup technologies at military installations. � Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) detection and classification technology demonstrations at underwater military sites. � Development of next generation wildland fire monitoring and modeling tools across DoW, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to protect federal lands and military infrastructure from severe wildfire threats. � Improve our understanding of the fate and transport of PFAS in unsaturated systems, including their transport through the vadose zone and capillary fringe to the water table. � Further refine the Sediment Volume Search Sonar (SVSS), which provides a more detailed survey in water depths less than 5 meters. SVSS was tested at an ESTCP funded demonstration site, and if results are promising the system will be tested at a live munitions response site. � Development of next generation wildland fire monitoring and modeling tools across DoW, the USFS, and the USFWS to protect federal lands and military infrastructure from severe wildfire threats. � Develop and test rapid...