MILWAUKEE, Oct. 10, 2024 – The U.S. Army awarded Johnson Controls a $25 million contract under its Deep Energy Retrofit Assessment program for engineering planning and design at U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll (USAG-KA). The effort will enhance the readiness and energy security of USAG-KA by integrating the planning of utility infrastructure, facility energy consumption, and resilient carbon-free energy production and energy storage solutions.
“Our work will ensure that the USAG-KA operates securely and sustainably, even in one of the most remote locations on Earth,” said John Kliem, PE, CEM, director of Federal Strategy at Johnson Controls. “We are proud to support the Army’s energy objectives and contribute to national defense priorities.”
The Army implemented its Deep Energy Retrofit Assessment program in 2024 to improve and accelerate the reduction of energy requirements in facilities needing repair and modernization, to better enable achievement of the Army’s energy resilience objectives. This project will overhaul the garrison’s installation energy and water plan to ensure the Army’s ability to sustain mission operations in the atoll in the event of conflict in the Pacific that disrupts access to diesel and water supplies. Johnson Controls will develop a solution that significantly reduces USAG-KA’s dependency on at-risk resources and enables long-term installation sustainment.
The Army’s Deep Energy Retrofit Assessment program is an innovation to its energy savings performance contract (ESPC) program. Johnson Controls is in the 5th year of performance of an $40 Million ESPC at USAG-KA. This newly awarded planning work will inform the development of future deep energy retrofit, utility, and energy and water resilience projects, including the potential for ESPC task orders for work able to pay for itself through resulting energy cost savings. Deep energy retrofit objectives are intended to drive a decrease in installation energy consumption requirements even more significantly than the average ESPC, as they require a minimum 40% energy consumption per square foot reduction goal.
Located 2,100 miles southwest of Hawaii on 11 islands in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, USAG-KA is home to the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site (RTS), a multi-billion-dollar state-of-the-art facility equipped with advanced radar, optics, telemetry, and scoring sensors. The RTS supports ballistic missile defense systems and space operations and is crucial to the U.S. national defense strategy.
The Johnson Controls Federal Systems (JCFS) team provides transformative solutions that improve the resilience, sustainability and security of U.S. federal government facilities and Department of Defense installations. By leveraging smart building technologies and innovative infrastructure solutions, JCFS supports national security objectives by ensuring that mission critical facilities operate efficiently and effectively.
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