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Created Energy Resilience Testbed program; installation energy plans.
Knox restored its whole grid in seven minutes and ran independently eight hours.
Army explains microgrid program feeding the 14-day requirement.
Requires microgrid/islanding assessment (7+ days) in new construction; long-duration storage demo.
First Army installation-wide black start: Knox ran on its own power for a full workday.
Air Force plan treats 30-day EMP/GMD grid outage as a planning scenario.
Reinforced 99.9% critical-load availability; emergency-generator microgrid pilot; on-site energy projects.
Army explains 14-day benchmark and black-start testing at posts.
Supersedes AD 2017-07; default 14 days of energy and water for critical missions; requires IEWPs.
Single diesel generators unreliable beyond days; ~80% chance of running after two weeks.
Air Force completed two base-wide pull-the-plug outages, one paired with a simulated utility cyberattack.
Foundational: Army installations must sustain critical missions >=14 days of energy/water; Installation Energy and Water Plans.
Directed black-start exercises at major installations and boosted energy resilience programs.
Air Force tallies energy resilience analyses, tabletops and pull-the-plug exercises; warns adversaries target grid.
Directs DoD to pilot-test hardening a strategic military installation against EMP.
Army energy office briefing on the shift from efficiency to 14-day resilience.
Requires 99.9% availability for critical-mission energy loads by FY2030; Sec. 327 orders microreactor pilot study.
Warned bases depend on a fragile civilian grid with only days of generator fuel.
Created 10 USC 2911 resilience policy and definitions; energy savings may fund resilience; resilience counts in utility contracts.
Fort Buchanan lost power two months and water one month after Hurricane Maria.
DoD energy and installations budget testimony describing energy resilience priorities for FY2018.
OSD briefed DoDI 4170.11 resilience update, generator testing guidance and business-case framework.
Army Directive 2017-07 set a 14-day minimum to sustain critical missions through utility outages.