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  • 7/30/2019 PR 130503NM ExFOB Returns to Combat Center

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    For Immediate Release Release No: PR-130503-NM1

    Experimental Forward Operating Base 2013

    MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER, TWENTYNINE PALMS,

    Calif.(May 3, 2013)The Combat Center will once again host the Experimental ForwardOperating Base, the Marine Corps innovative process to identify and evaluate energy efficient

    technologies, May 6-10.

    Since its inception in 2009, ExFOB brings together stakeholders from across the Marine Corps

    requirements, acquisitions, and technology development communities to quickly movecommercial technologies from concept to combat and provide industry with opportunities to

    demonstrate new capabilities to improve the combat effectiveness of Marines. There will be 13technical demonstrations by 10 commercial vendors and 9 government-sponsored displays.

    Solutions provided by previous rounds of ExFOB are already in use by Marines in Afghanistan.

    These innovations include reductions of 90 percent in fuel consumption at certain forwardoperating bases from adopted renewable energy technology. Weight loads on combat foot patrols

    have also been reduced through the use of solar-rechargeable batteries for communicationsequipment and other energy-intensive items.

    ExFOB 2013 will evaluate hybrid technologies to produce power in austere environments.

    Increasing energy efficiency and using renewable energy sources extends a Marine unitssustainability in an expeditionary environment, making for a leaner, lighter force that is ready torespond immediately to crises anywhere in the world in defense of the nation, its allies, and its

    interests.

    A tour of the Combat Centers green energy initiatives will also occur May 9th. The tour willshowcase the facilities and projects that have established the Combat Center as the Corps

    flagship installation for energy management and sustainability. The tour will include theinstallations second co-generation plant, currently in the final stages of construction, which willgenerate 9.2 megawatts of power for the installation. The Combat Centers two co-generation

    plants, when fully online, will generate enough electricity to cover more than 90 percent of theinstallations energy needs year-round.

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    Media Advisory: Media wishing to cover the ExFOB should RSVP no later than noon on May 7

    with Capt. Nick Mannweiler, at [email protected]. Imagery from ExFOB will beavailable upon request and on the Combat Centers social media sites. The tour of the Combat

    Centers energy facilities is considered optional, but interest in the tour should be communicatedat the time of RSVP.

    Marine Air Ground Task Force Training CommandMarine Corps Air Ground Combat Center

    Twentynine Palms, California 92278 (760) 830-3760Fax: (760) 830-5474