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...substitute fuels and renewables requires the backing of the U.S. military, whose procurement and R&D budgets dwarf those of other nations. (Last year, the U.S. Department of Defense spent $79 billion on internal R&D; the British armed services spent $4 billion.) And while the Department of Defense (DOD) has not formalized green technology into its strategic documents, it has sponsored numerous studies that call for it to wean itself off what it's dubbed "POL" - petroleum, oils and lubricants - in favor of alternative fuels. (Read the top 10 green stories...
...that message has been passed on to industry and research institutions. A recent DOD acquisition directive requires the military to consider the "fuel burdens" of new technology, while a special office inside the DOD monitors alternative energy efforts at U.S.-based universities and institutions with an eye to awarding funding. DARPA was recently given $100 million for a research project into alternative fuels. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
...lack of research and the misuse of federal funds: Since 1994, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs have spent nearly $440 million on Gulf War research, or so the agencies said. The panel found that much of the money had been used to fund research wholly unrelated to GWI. In fact, a great deal of the DOD's "Gulf War portfolio" consisted of projects for currently deployed soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the DOD has slashed funding for Gulf War research from nearly $30 million annually to less...
...defense officials concede, is elastic enough to include borderline battalions. There are other shortcomings when it comes to measuring the 478,000-strong Iraqi military and police units: "The number of trained Iraqi security forces may overstate the number of troops present for duty," the GAO noted. "According to DOD, the number of trained troops includes personnel who are deceased or absent without leave...
...report concluded: "A consistently noted theme throughout the visits was that most sites require significant additional resources to meet DoD security requirements...