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MEMORANDUM FOR SEE DISTRIBUTION
SUBJECT: Army Directive 2020-03 (Installation Energy and Water Resilience Policy)
1. For references, see enclosure 1. For definitions, see enclosure 2.
2. Purpose. This directive issues policy to strengthen energy and water resilience to
reduce the risk to Army missions posed by utility disruptions affecting installations. This
directive supersedes Army Directive 2017-07 (Installation Energy and Water Security
Policy) and revises provisions in chapter 22 of Army Regulation (AR) 420–1 (Army
Facilities Management). The directive also assigns the roles and responsibilities of
Headquarters, Department of the Army Principal Officials; commanders and senior
Army officials responsible for Army commands, Army service component commands,
and direct reporting units; commanders of landholding commands; and senior and
garrison commanders.
3. Background. Secure and reliable access to energy and water on Army installations
is essential to the Total Army and its ability to deploy, fight, and win in a complex world.
Threats, both man-made and natural, associated with the interdependent electric
power grids, natural gas pipelines, and water resources and systems can jeopardize
mission capabilities. The Army must identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and ensure
installations can continue critical missions through any disruption of utility services.
Resilient energy and water systems directly affect the success of the strategic support
area in multi-domain operations.
4. Applicability. This directive applies to the Regular Army, Army National Guard/Army
National Guard of the United States, and U.S. Army Reserve. It also applies to tenants
on active Army installations.
5. Policy. This directive establishes energy and water resilience requirements for Army
installations in support of the 2018 National Defense Strategy and Army Vision. To
reduce mission risk, the Army will prioritize providing resilient energy and water
supplies, facilities, and infrastructure that support critical missions. The Army will reduce
risk to all other missions when it is life-cycle cost-effective. Army real property affected
by this policy are installations, sites, and facilities operated and/or maintained by
Federal funds in and outside the continental United States. This policy does not apply to
Army contingency bases or U.S. Army Corps of Engineers civil works facilities.
a. The Army will sustain critical missions by being capable of withstanding an
extended utility outage for a duration set by the senior commander or higher
S E C R E T A R Y O F T H E A R M Y
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headquarters based on timeframes to accomplish, curtail, or relocate the critical
mission(s). When the duration of the critical mission(s) has not been stipulated, the
Army will plan to sustain energy and water for a minimum of 14 days.
(1) Energy and water supplies, facilities, and infrastructure supporting critical
missions include energy and water sources; energy transmission and distribution
systems; water treatment, distribution, and wastewater systems; and backup
generation. Resilience timeframes for supplies, facilities, and infrastructure may vary
across an installation based on critical mission requirements.
(2) Resilience considerations include secure on-site supplies of energy and
water to support the sustainment of critical missions, as well as assured access to
off-site energy and water resources and associated transmission; robust infrastructure
to distribute energy and water; and effective system operation through planning,
personnel, and equipment to support critical mission requirements.
(3) Reduction of risk to energy and water supplies, facilities, and infrastructure
supporting critical missions will be conducted in accordance with procedures for cost-
benefit analysis as outlined in AR 11–18 (The Cost and Economic Analysis Program).
The cost-benefit analysis should include the evaluation of a variety of feasible courses
of action to close capability gaps. This approach alleviates the requirement to show a
cost savings, yet provides the means to determine the most effective and efficient use
of resources to close the capability gap.
b. For energy and water supplies, facilities, and infrastructure supporting noncritical
missions, the Army will take coordinated, prudent, and life-cycle cost-effective actions to
reduce risks from a disruption. These actions include assuring access to offsite energy
and water supplies, and maintaining infrastructure condition and system operation to
support installation missions. For energy and water projects, life-cycle cost-effective
analyses should be documented in a cost analysis/economic analysis as outlined in
AR 11–18.
c. When life-cycle cost-effective, the Army will pursue energy and water efficiency
and conservation to support installation resilience by reducing demand and operating
costs. Efficiency and conservation efforts include reducing overall energy and water
use, maximizing efficiency, implementing energy recovery and cogeneration
opportunities, recycling and reusing water by shifting to alternative sources, recharging
aquifers, and striving to offset remaining demand with on-site energy generation or
water sources.
d. Requirements to assure access to off-site energy and water supplies may
necessitate engagement with external utilities. U.S. Army Legal Services Agency
represents the Department of the Army’s consumer interests in regulatory matters,
including proceedings involving rates and conditions for the purchase of services for
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utilities. This policy does not affect the provisions for the U.S. Army Legal Services
Agency in AR 27–40 (Litigation). Energy and water resilience actions that require
regulatory approval or affect provisions in AR 27–40, like new or amended rates,
regulations, or conditions of service, must be referred to the Legal Services Agency.
6. Responsibilities
a. The Assistant Secretary of the Army (ASA) for Installations, Energy and
Environment (IE&E) will maintain policy oversight related to this directive and establish
strategic direction for the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution of
requirements to address installation energy and water resilience.
b. The Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-9 will take the following action:
(1) Support programming and plan and track the execution of resources to
address risks to installation energy and water resilience. Concentrate efforts on
reducing vulnerabilities to supplies, facilities, and infrastructure supporting critical
missions.
(2) Promulgate supporting guidance to implement this directive, including
updating guidance for installation energy and water plans (IEWPs) and maintaining
energy and water resilience reporting through the Installation Status Report—Mission
Capacity. Update the IEWP guidance no later than 120 days after issuance of this
directive and will provide guidance on project justification.
c. Senior commanders, in coordination with Army commands, Army service
component commands, direct reporting units, mission owners, Army and non-Army
tenant organizations, and garrison staff, will identify and document energy and water
requirements associated with critical missions in IEWPs.
d. Commanders of landholding commands will execute identified energy and water
requirements by:
(1) programming and submitting requirements for consideration during the
planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process and overseeing execution of
resources to address risks to installation energy and water resilience.
(2) responding to senior commander requirements by making sure garrison
commanders:
(a) complete IEWPs that address risks to installation energy and water
resilience, with priority given to supplies, facilities, and infrastructure supporting
critical missions.
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(b) develop and submit requirements to address energy and water risks to
critical missions and prioritize and execute activities to reduce risk.
(c) keep senior commanders informed about the status of installation energy and
water resilience through the installation planning board or an equivalent process.
e. The Commander, Corps of Engineers, in coordination with the ASA (IE&E) and
DCS, G-9, will update Army design criteria and project specifications to implement
energy and water resilience in construction, renovation, and repair projects, as
appropriate.
7. Proponent. The ASA (IE&E) is the proponent for this policy. The DCS, G-9 will
incorporate the provisions of this directive into AR 420–1 within 2 years of the date of
this directive. The DCS, G-3/5/7 will incorporate the relevant provisions and definitions
of this directive into AR 500–3 (U.S. Army Continuity of Operations Program Policy and
Planning), AR 525–2 (The Army Protection Program), AR 525–26 (Infrastructure Risk
Management), and AR 525–27 (Army Emergency Management Program) within 2 years
of the date of this directive.
8. Duration. This directive is rescinded on publication of the revised regulations.
Encls Ryan D. McCarthy
DISTRIBUTION:
Principal Officials of Headquarters, Department of the Army
Commander
U.S. Army Forces Command
U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
U.S. Army Materiel Command
U.S. Army Futures Command
U.S. Army Pacific
U.S. Army Europe
U.S. Army Central
U.S. Army North
U.S. Army South
U.S. Army Africa/Southern European Task Force
U.S. Army Special Operations Command
Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command
U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Strategic Command
U.S. Army Cyber Command
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DISTRIBUTION: (CONT)
U.S. Army Medical Command
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Army Military District of Washington
U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command
U.S. Army Human Resources Command
Superintendent, United States Military Academy
Director, U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center
Superintendent, Arlington National Cemetery
Commandant, U.S. Army War College
Director, U.S. Army Civilian Human Resources Agency
CF:
Director of Business Transformation
Commander, Eighth Army
Enclosure 1
REFERENCES
a. Public Law 115-91, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018,
125 Stat. 1857–1859
b. 10 U.S. Code, Chapter 169 (Military Construction and Military Family Housing),
section 2801 (Scope of chapter; definitions)
c. Department of Defense Instruction 4170.11 (Installation Energy Management),
11 December 2009, incorporating Change 2, 31 August 2018
d. 2018 National Defense Strategy, 19 January 2018
e. The Army Vision, 7 June 2018
f. Army Directive 2017-07 (Installation Energy and Water Security Policy),
23 February 2017 (hereby superseded)
g. Army Regulation (AR) 11–18 (The Cost and Economic Analysis Program),
29 August 2019
h. AR 27–40 (Litigation), 19 September 1994
i. AR 210-14 (Installation Status Report Program), 11 June 2019
j. AR 420–1 (Army Facilities Management), 12 February 2008, including Rapid Action
Revision issued 24 August 2012
k. AR 500–3 (U.S. Army Continuity of Operations Program Policy and Planning),
18 April 2008
l. AR 525–2 (The Army Protection Program), 8 December 2014
m. AR 525–26 (Infrastructure Risk Management (Army)), 22 June 2004
n. AR 525–27 (Army Emergency Management Program), 29 March 2019
o. AR 600–20 (Army Command Policy), 6 November 2014
p. Energy Security and Sustainability (ES 2) Strategy, 1 May 2015
q. Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, DAIM-ZA memorandum
(Guidance for Installation Energy and Water Plans (IEWPs)), 26 July 2018
Enclosure 2
DEFINITIONS
Assure access: An Army installation resilience attribute that considers sources of
energy and water supply to meet mission requirements during normal and emergency
response operations. Assuring access includes building relationships with utility
providers, as well as supply diversity, quality, redundancy, and reliability, with the goal
to mitigate risk of loss of energy or water supply from either on or off the installation.
Cost analysis: The act of developing, analyzing, and documenting cost estimates
through various analytical approaches and techniques. It is the process of analyzing
and estimating incremental and total resources required to support past, present, and
future systems. In its application to future resource requirements, it becomes a step in
selection of alternatives by the decision maker. (AR 11–18)
Cost-benefit analysis: A structured methodology for estimating and comparing the
anticipated costs and benefits of alternative courses of action to identify the optimum
solution for achieving a stated goal or objective. A cost-benefit analysis identifies
courses of action for solving a problem; determines their costs and benefits; and, with a
sound rationale, identifies the best course of action. The purpose of a cost-benefit
analysis is to produce a strong value proposition, which is a clear statement that the
benefits of a recommended course of action justify the costs, risks, and bill-payers
associated with that course of action. A cost-benefit analysis is a narrowly focused
economic analysis that applies rigorous analytical techniques to complement, but not
replace, experience, judgment, and subject matter expertise. (AR 11–18)
Critical mission: A mission of such high importance that its incapacitation or
destruction would severely degrade the ability of the Army to support task-critical
assets, or execute mission-essential tasks or mission-essential functions it supports in
all operating environments.
Economics analysis: A systematic approach to identify, analyze, and compare costs or
benefits of alternative courses of action that will achieve a given set of objectives. This
approach is taken to determine the most efficient and effective manner to employ
resources. In the broad sense, the systematic approach called economic analysis
applies to new programs, as well as to the analysis of ongoing actions. (AR 11–18)
Energy and water resilience: The ability to avoid, prepare for, minimize, adapt to, and
recover from anticipated and unanticipated energy or water disruptions to ensure energy
and water availability and reliability sufficient to provide for mission assurance and
readiness, including task-critical assets and other mission-essential operations related to
readiness, and to execute or rapidly reestablish mission-essential requirements.
Garrison commander (manager): The garrison commander is a military officer,
lieutenant colonel or colonel, selected by Headquarters, Department of the Army. The
garrison commander is the senior commander’s senior executive for installation
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activities and is responsible for day-to-day operation and management of installations
and base support services. When a civilian holds this position, he or she is known as
the garrison manager and has the same responsibility and authority as the military
counterpart with the exception of Uniform Code of Military Justice and command
authority. (AR 600–20)
Infrastructure condition: An Army installation resilience attribute that considers the
capacity and reliability to deliver energy and water to meet installation requirements.
Infrastructure condition includes efficient, reliable, flexible, and redundant distribution
networks; automated controls; and on-site energy and water storage.
Installation: An aggregation of contiguous or near contiguous real property holdings
commanded by a centrally selected commander. An installation may be made of one or
more sites. (AR 420–1)
Life-cycle cost-effective: The sum of the present values of investment, capital,
installation, energy and water, operating, maintenance, and replacement costs, as
estimated for the lifetime of the project, product, or measure. The sum does not exceed
the base case (current or standard) for the practice, product, or measure.
Mission-essential function: Any function that is vital to the continuation of operations
of the organization or agency. These functions include those required by statute or
Executive order, and other functions deemed essential by the head of each
organization. Mission-essential functions are those continuing activities that must be
performed without interruption to execute critical Army missions. They may be
prioritized, which allows for a graduated response and relocation to the Emergency
Relocation Facilities with minimum interruptions to operations during a national or local
emergency or during normal operations. (AR 500–3)
Mission-essential task: A mission task a commander selects that is deemed essential
to mission accomplishment and defined using the common language of the universal
joint task list in terms of task, condition, and standard. A mission-essential task differs
from a joint mission-essential task in that it may portray mission tasks within the
authority of a sole Department of Defense Component’s authority. (AR 525–2)
Risk: A concept used to give meaning to things, forces, or circumstances that pose a
danger to people or the things they value. It is normally stated as the probability or
likelihood of failing to achieve a particular outcome or the consequences or effects of
failing to achieve that outcome. (AR 525–26)
Senior commander: An officer designated on orders from Headquarters, Department
of the Army as the senior commander of an installation. It is normally the senior general
officer at the installation. (AR 600–20)
System operation: An Army installation resilience attribute that considers the
personnel and procedures needed to maintain effective system operation. System
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operation includes trained personnel; backup maintenance equipment and system
components; and operational procedures for energy and water planning, conservation,
operations, exercises, testing, and sustainment activities.
Vulnerability: A weakness or susceptibility of an installation, system, asset, application,
or its dependencies that could cause it to suffer a degradation or loss (incapacity to
perform its designated function) as a result of being subjected to a certain level of threat
or hazard.