Block XIX Flashcards
Goals for Navy Energy Vision
- Value energy as strategic resource
- Understand how energy security is vital to executing mission
- Resilient to any future energy challenge
When did the CNO sign Navy Energy Vision?
October 2010
Designed to optimize fuel consumption by naval aviation units to ensure right amount of fuel is available for mission readiness
U.S. Navy Aviation Energy Conservation (Air ENCON) Program
What are the Air ENCON program pillars?
- Developing energy awareness
- Building culture of innovation and sharing best practices
- Eliminating energy-consuming inefficiencies
intended to offset typical operational inefficiencies that arise from the use of Super Hornet aircraft as aerial tankers
Short-Cycle Mission and Recovery Tanking (SMART)
“yo-yo” tanking
staggering tanker cycles to provide fuel to recovery and mission tactical aircraft
Pure SMART
Using only a single centerline aerial refueling store (ARS)
Hybrid SMART
Employing 3-wet tankers for mission tanking and 1 for recovery tanking
Hybrid SMART+
utilizing 5-wet mission tanker and an ARS only, or 3-wet recover tanker
replacements for incandescent and fluorescent lighting fixtures
Light Emitting Diodes (LED)
In 2012, President Obama declared what month as national energy action month?
October