Defense infrastructure, improvement needed in energy reporting and security funding at installations with limited connectivity : report to congressional committees.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Rules and practice--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

Military bases--Energy conservation--United States.

Military bases.

Energy conservation--United States.

Energy conservation.

Energy security--United States.

Energy security.

Energy policy--United States.

Energy policy.

Military bases--Energy conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 50 pages) : color illustrations, color map

Other Title:

Improvement needed in energy reporting and security funding at installations with limited connectivity

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2016.

Summary:

"DOD is the largest energy consumer in the federal government, spending about $4.1 billion on facilities' energy at more than 500 permanent military installations throughout the world in fiscal year 2013. To help ensure oversight of DOD's fulfillment of energy performance goals, Congress requires that DOD track energy savings, investments, and projects in its annual Energy Report. The Energy Report also details DOD's activities to enhance energy security. Congress included a provision for GAO to review DOD's fiscal year 2013 Energy Report and energy security at energy-remote military installations -- that is, those installations located in areas with limited connectivity and without significant infrastructure of power plants, transmission lines, or distribution lines. GAO assessed the extent to which (1) DOD addressed the 12 required reporting elements and reliably reported data in its fiscal year 2013 Energy Report and (2) the military services help ensure energy security at energy-remote military installations in the United States. GAO analyzed DOD's Energy Report and interviewed officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense, military services, defense agencies, and all installations in Alaska and Hawaii because they were identified as energy remote"--Preliminary page.

Contents:

Background

DOD met some reporting requirements and correctly reflected the military services' and Defense agencies' data and other inputs in its Fiscal Year 2013 energy report, but the data are unreliable

Military services are helping to ensure energy security at U.S. energy-remote installations, but areas of risk remain

Conclusions.

Notes:

"January 2016."

Title from title screen (viewed on Apr. 21, 2016).

"GAO-16-164."

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

936117870