OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

3400 DEFENSE PENTAGON

WASHINGTON, DC 20301-3400 

 

 

 ENERGY, INSTALLATIONS, 

 AND ENVIRONMENT

MEMORANDUM FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE ARMY (INSTALLATIONS, 

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT) 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY (ENERGY, 

INSTALLATIONS AND ENVIRONMENT) 

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE 

(INSTALLATIONS, ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY) 

SUBJECT: Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program Challenge – Fiscal 

Year 2022 Funding Recipients and Fiscal Year 2023 Request for Proposals 

The Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program preserves and 

enhances range and installation capabilities through partnership agreements to promote 

installation resilience and conserve land and habitat. These efforts protect against incompatible 

land use that could adversely affect critical testing, training, and operations. Your REPI projects 

have enhanced the ability of our installations and ranges to perform their mission and have 

produced wide-ranging benefits for surrounding communities and the environment. 

Recognizing that the project requirements far exceed available funding, my office was 

able to provide over $31 million for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 REPI Challenge. This funding 

supports innovative projects that benefit military readiness through large-scale mission 

protection and increased partner funding to preserve and enhance key capabilities of strategic 

importance to the Department of Defense (DoD). The nine projects funded this year will benefit 

13 installations and their communities: Fort Huachuca, NO Flagstaff, and Camp Navajo, AZ; 

Beale AFB, CA; PMRF Barking Sands, Pōhakuloa Training Area, and Joint Base Pearl HarborHickam, HI; NAS Patuxent River, MD; Fort Bragg, MCAS Cherry Point, MCB Camp 

Lejeune/MCAS New River, and Seymour Johnson AFB, NC; and NB Kitsap, WA. 

Together, these diverse projects will leverage $31.6 million in REPI Challenge funding 

with $60.3 million in partner contributions to limit incompatible development, enhance military 

installation resilience to climate change or severe weather events, and relieve current and 

anticipated environmental restrictions at key strategic locations, including multiple installations 

in Hawaii. Additional project details are provided in the attached factsheet. My office is 

coordinating with your staffs to provide relevant communication materials and finalize the 

formal public announcement. I ask that you and your installations please refrain from making 

any public announcements until this plan has been finalized. 

I am also pleased to announce that my office plans to make up to $40 million in FY 2023 

available for REPI Challenge projects. The focus for FY 2023 will be consistent with the FY 

2022 Challenge. Additional consideration will also be given to projects that leverage multiple 

DoD authorities to accomplish project goals. This level of continued investment is due to the 

scale of mission benefit realized through Challenge projects in previous years, and the potential 
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for this year’s projects to attract new sources of private capital, increase partner cost-share, and 

protect military capability at a greater scale. 

The FY 2023 REPI Challenge will be conducted in accordance with the process and 

criteria described in the attached request for proposals, and funded projects will be chosen in 

coordination with Military Department representatives. Pre-proposal submissions are due by 

July 25, 2022. I strongly encourage you to work with your partners to develop comprehensive 

proposals that address encroachment concerns and advance National Defense priorities at your 

installations and ranges. 

 

Thank you for your continued support of the annual REPI Challenge. Please direct any 

questions to Ms. Kristin Thomasgard, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Real Property, at kristin.j.thomasgard.civ@mail.mil. 

Michael McAndrew 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Construction 

Performing the Duties of Principal Deputy 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, 

Installations, and Environment 

Attachments: 

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