Environmentally Safe and Affordable Solution for FPCON B Security Requirement

Abstract

Temporary implementation of Force Protection Condition Bravo (FPCON B) required to set an overwatch on each Department of Defense (DoD) installation gate across the country. Currently, the overwatch consists on an police cruiser with an idling engine that adversely affects environment, energetic resources, and economical budget across the DoD installations. At the same time, it presents a health concern to cruiser occupant. This paper proposes four courses of action (COAs) for a specific installation; three of these propose solutions to reduce environmental, energetical, economical, and health risks impacts, while the fourth is the cost of doing nothing. Although this report considers one DoD installation, COAs are applicable to any DoD dependency under same situation. It was found that, although current practice does not harm cruiser occupant, three COAs reduced the environmental footprint, energy use and costs over 5 times, and the break-even point is reached at around 2.5 to 5 years. Key Terms ⎯ Environment, FPCON, engine idling, police cruiser.