 REPI Challenge Leverages Partnerships to Enhance National Security Priorities
The Department of Defense's (DOD) Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program is thrilled to announce the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 REPI Challenge project funding recipients. For the FY 2024 REPI Challenge, the REPI Program contributed over $23 million in DOD funds, coupled with over $36 million in partner contributions. These innovative projects will promote compatible land uses, enhance military installation resilience, and relieve current or anticipated environmental restrictions on military testing, training, or operations. By distributing funds across 17 projects, the REPI Challenge contributed to initiatives benefiting 22 installations and their communities across the country.
From its pilot project in FY 2012, the REPI Program designed the REPI Challenge for partners and installations to cultivate innovative projects that harness creativity and protect critical testing and training capabilities. Since FY 2012, the REPI Program has distributed over $169 million in program funds to REPI Challenge projects in 62 locations. REPI Challenge projects have attracted more than $474 million in partner contributions that promote compatible land use, enhance military installation resilience, and relieve current or anticipated environmental restrictions on military testing, training, or operations in areas of strategic importance.
REPI Challenge Investments in the Pacific Region
By strengthening relationships, partnerships, and impactful collaboration across each region, the REPI Program has seen rapid project growth and beneficial outcomes in Hawaiʻi, Guam, and Alaska. Across the Pacific region, the FY 2024 REPI Challenge contributed funding to ten projects to help implement partnership efforts and improve coastal and forest resilience, which benefits long-term sustainability for local communities and their neighboring installation. For more information on partnerships across the entire Pacific region, visit the REPI Pacific Region page.
To learn more about this year’s 17 REPI Challenge funding recipients, explore the 2024 REPI Challenge Story Map for additional project highlights, partnerships, and funding information.
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