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Building on the success of prior army

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energy exchange workshops . The 2024

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military energy performance contracting

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forum expanded its topics to include

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all military branches on day one of the

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for federal employees met at the US

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Army Engineering and support center

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Huntsville on Redstone Arsenal to

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receive updates regarding the status of

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programs and activities that enable

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energy resilience for the Department of

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Defense . Over the following three days ,

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private industry , energy and utility

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stakeholders also attended the forum at

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the Jackson Center at Cummings Research

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Park in Huntsville . The forum focused

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on service wide third party financing ,

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energy savings , performance

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contracting , and utility energy

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services contracting programs that use

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private capital to make infrastructure

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improvements . I think there's a huge

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value as we're all under the Department

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of Defense umbrella to get folks in the

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room that have similar with different

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thoughts that diversity is key because

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the army looks at a problem a little

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differently than the Navy than the Air

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Force , the Coast Guard and hearing

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their perspectives , I think allows

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that diversity and conversation to

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understand and then you bring in the

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ESOS who are the partners in this

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process . It really is a good

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perspective from their shoes of what

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the army is doing , that the Navy

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should do better or what the Air Force

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is doing that the Navy should consider

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because we see success work could be

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challenges as well . It's not always

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rose colored glasses . I mean , there's

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problems but this is a complicated

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business and there's a lot of factors

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that go into making a project

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successful .