Pentagon Starting with Resilient Energy for ‘FORTRESS America’
The Pentagon is prioritizing energy resilience as the first pillar of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s 'FORTRESS America' program. The initiative aims to make U.S. military bases self-sufficient through microgrids and battery storage to reduce reliance on the civilian power grid.
Why it matters
Energy independence for military installations is a strategic move to ensure operational continuity during national security crises or infrastructure failures.
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Looking to make a quick start on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sweeping “FORTRESS America” program to make every military base in the U.S. more self sufficient, the Pentagon is dialing up its efforts in an area the Air Force has been working for several years: energy resilience and independence.
Hegseth unveiled FORTRESS—a long-winded acronym for Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability—during his Sept. 30 “State of the Force” speech , and in a subsequent memo outlined five “pillars” of the effort: energy independence; supply chain and defense industrial base resilience; a strategic defense reserve; installation hardening and cyber resilience; and resilience in space and spectrum.
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