SolarCity (SCTY), Balfour Beatty Communities Near Completion of 7-MW Installation at USAF Family Hou
Balfour Beatty Communities and SolarCity are nearing completion of approximately 7 megawatts of solar at Air Force family housing in four states. The rooftop solar panels are installed across the residential communities managed by Balfour Beatty Communities at Travis Air Force Base (AFB), in California; Sheppard AFB in Texas; Tyndall AFB in Florida; and Luke AFB in Arizona. Together the installations utilize more than 26,000 solar panels to provide power to more than two thou
DOD BUSINESS BOARD URGES BRAC ROUND FOCUSED ON LOGISTICS
Association of Defense Communities: Defense Communities 360 The Defense Business Board on Thursday recommended a new round of base closures to slash the military’s excess logistics infrastructure. The recommendation, submitted by the board’s logistics task group, called for a BRAC to “target supply chain and excess depot warehouse and capacity.” DOD’s logistics enterprise does not reflect best practices of private industry which rely on flat, flexible management structures, t
ARE MORE P3s ON THE WAY?
Association of Defense Communities: Defense Communities 360 Look for the Pentagon to consider expanding the public-private partnership model it relied on to recapitalize the military’s family housing to other types of defense infrastructure under the next administration. “No matter who wins, we’re going to be taking a fresh look as these kinds of things,” Peter Potochney, acting assistant secretary of defense for energy, installations and environment, said during a panel disc
The Washington Post: The U.S. government just made its biggest clean energy purchase ever
Energy and the Environment On Friday in Maricopa County, Ariz., the U.S. government will hit a clean energy milestone: What officials are calling the largest procurement ever of renewable energy by the federal government, in this case from a desert solar array. The new 150-megawatt, or million-watt, Mesquite 3 solar array is located in Arizona, but the electricity it generates will be sent to California’s electric grid and will power roughly one-third of the electricity needs
New Director Looking to Take Air Force’s Partnership Program to the Next Level
After reaching a major achievement last month, the Air Force Community Partnership (AFCP) program is expected to continue growing with a new focus on initiatives with higher returns on investment, says the program’s new director. While the partnership program is “doing phenomenally well,” the service has started to concentrate on initiatives that can be implemented across a variety of installations and that can generate a higher payoff for the Air Force as well as the communi
How Obama brought capitalism to outer space
In 2010, nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy called for the United States to send a man to the moon, President Obama went to the Kennedy S
Air Force to cut battlefield airmen training locations in half to save money, time
Air Force Times The Air Force aims to slash the number of locations it uses to train battlefield airmen such as pararescuemen and combat controllers, at least by half, to streamline operations and save airmen’s time. Currently, battlefield airmen training is scattered across eight locations in seven states. But the new Battlefield Airmen Training Group, activated June 2, will consolidate those locations into three or four sites, Lt. Gen. Darryl Roberson, head of Air Education
