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Appendix C: Workshop Proceedings in Brief
Appendix C: Workshop Proceedings in Brief
Pages 87-103
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2. Investigate potential threats to energy assurance and access based on recent events and assumptions of future energy dependencies that should inform Air Force/government planning for energy generation, storage, and use.
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Instead of hosting data servers on the premises, K uconis 1 U.S. Air Force, Sensitive Compartmented Information Security and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems Cyber-security and Governance, Air Force Manual 14-403, September 3, 2019, https://fas.org/irp/doddir/usaf/afman14-403.pdf.
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They are also testing the feasibility of hybrid storage of data for larger data analytics loads, such as when assessing imagery data. Kuconis said that their data reference architecture will help manage large data sets in different data centers or on premise at the edge to get necessary data to operators who will use that data, because it is too complicated to keep all of the data in one big data center.
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Subhash Singhal (planning committee member) , Correll said that the USAF is only in the power generation business if it has to be; when there is an energy requirement on a base, a contractor or some other group is brought on board to supply the power that the USAF needs.
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ENERGY SOURCES: NOW AND IN THE FUTURE The Impact of Changing Energy Resource Mix on the Power Grid Dr. Deniz Ozkan (planning committee member)
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Ferrari asked where the USAF should invest in this area, and Wachsman recommended the high-temperature capability of solid-state batteries or solid-oxide fuel cells that combine cooling and power, especially for the potential usage in data centers.
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They work toward this using a solid-oxide fuel cell and by deploying Bloom Energy servers. They are currently deployed across four countries with about 450 megawatts in 10 U.S.
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PREVIOUS STUDIES Defense Science Board Study on Energy Systems for Forward-Operating Bases Gen.
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focuses her research on the intersection of critical infrastructure systems, particularly energy systems and national security. Narayanan has been the lead on RAND's extensive work for the USAF on installation energy issues ranging from valuing electric power resilience to strategies for deterring a tax on the power grid.
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serves as the principal scientific authority and independent researcher in the field of command and control, and supporting technologies, including information sharing, data fusion, machine learning, performance optimization techniques, and systems resiliency. Linderman noted that at the tactical edge, "we do not seem to measure things in gigawatts as often as we do in watts." Sometimes at the tactical edge, some small advantages can have outsized effects.
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Wu said that we need to pay more attention to advanced energy and cooling management solutions because of ultra-high-performance requirements coming from highly parallel heterogeneous computing systems. In addition to improving the systems, performance, and energy efficiency, we start to see large-scale long running programs such as machine learning training or applications in the high-performance computing domain to have significant environmental impact, Wu said.
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Gen. John Ferrari (planning committee member)
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Garg noted that IT infrastructure, data centers, and IoT devices are extremely important for DoD operations, and they are seeing this via the idea of digital transformation, digital tooling, and how digital applications are becoming increasingly mission critical. C3.ai uses AI to analyze USAF bases as though they were mini-cities to optimize energy management and operations.
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Outside the fence refers to engineering with local utilities and construction plans, while inside the fence refers to energy storage, backup power, batteries, monitoring, awareness, and understanding of how these systems interact from a system of systems perspective on the installation's property. More stringent pre-contingency 12 Tenable, Inc., "Our Vision," https://www.tenable.com/about-tenable/about-us.
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Hayden spoke to the physical security threat assessment of facilities, such as direct attack, power-line damage, vandalism, and severe weather. He said that a utility has to do an initial risk assessment to identify whether a substation is a critical facility or not; how critical the facility is determines the standards for managing its physical security measures.
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The USAF is conducting experiments and testing different technologies, and the logistics-under-attack issue 14 North American Electric Reliability Corporation, Analysis of System Protection Misoperations, December 2015, https://www.nerc.com/pa/RAPA/PA/Performance%20Analysis%20DL/2015_Analysis_ of_System_Protection_Misoperations_Final.pdf.
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STAFF: Ellen Chou, Director, Air Force Studies Board; George Coyle, Senior Program Officer; Ryan Murphy, Program Officer; Adrianna Hargrove, Finance Business Partner; Marguerite Schneider, Administrative Coordinator; Catherine Puma, Research Associate. SPONSORS: This workshop was supported by the U.S.
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