What We Do
The USAEC Acquisition Team:
- Represents and coordinates installation interests regarding new/upgraded Army weapon systems and their impact on installation operations.
- Ensures that known or potential environmental impacts are identified, mitigated in the system development where possible, prior to any Army System Acquisition Review Council (ASARC) and the Cost Review Board (CRB) reviews.
- Provides the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations and Environment) ASA (I&E) with an independent Environmental Quality Impact Assessment (EQIA) for all major milestone decision reviews for weapon systems. The EQIA includes, but is not limited to: review and evaluation of Programmatic Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health Evaluation (PESHE) documents, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation, acquisition strategies, statements of work, fielding plans, test and evaluation master plans, safety assessment reports, health hazard assessments, and life cycle cost documents, etc.
- Reviews capabilities documents for compliance with environmental requirements on behalf of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management (ACSIM) in their role as Army Requirements Oversight Council (AROC) advisor.
- Represents the ACSIM and the ASA (I&E) at various Integrated Product Team's (IPT) and CRB Working Group meetings for Acquisition Category (ACAT) I and selected ACAT II weapon systems.
- Reviews appropriate weapon system documentation communicating installation concerns to the Environmental Support Office (ESO), the Program Executive Office (PEO) and/or the Program Manager (PM) or Integrated Process Team (IPT), Office of the Director of Environmental Programs (ODEP) and the Installation Management Command (IMCOM).
- Upon PEO/PM request and in coordination with ESO, will assist PEOs/PMs with the integration of environmental quality considerations into all aspects of their program.
- Acts as a liaison between installations and Army weapon systems to facilitate smooth integration of ESOH considerations during weapon system fielding.