Department of Defense's 2024 REPI Challenge Recipients

Through the REPI Program, the Department preserves and enhances military mission capabilities by engaging in long-term, cost-sharing agreements with state and local governments and conservation organizations that improve military installation resilience, promote compatible land use, and preserve critical habitats and natural resources outside installations and ranges.   Click here   for more information on the REPI Program.

Extreme weather events, including coastal and riverine flooding, excessive heat, land degradation, and wildfire, have inflicted billions of dollars’ worth of damage to our installations and affect military readiness by requiring installations to demolish and replace severely damaged facilities, repair damaged installation infrastructure, reduce training due to heat-restrictions and wildfires, and defer live fire and other operations on landscapes degraded due to fire or drought conditions.  Therefore, DOD must prepare for, adapt to, and respond to all risks to military readiness, including extreme weather events and changes in environmental conditions that can threaten military personnel, warfighting equipment, and physical and natural infrastructure.  From its 2012 pilot project, the REPI Program designed the REPI Challenge for partners and installations to cultivate innovative projects that protect critical testing and training capabilities. The REPI Challenge is a competition with dedicated funding for partners to advance project outcomes outside installations and ranges through large-scale innovation and military installation resilience actions.   

 For the 2024 REPI Challenge, the REPI Program contributed over $23 million in funds, coupled with over $39 million in partner contributions to advance innovative projects that 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 23 installations and their communities across the country. 

In Hawaiʻi, Guam, and Alaska, the REPI Program has seen rapid project growth and beneficial outcomes through strengthening relationships, partnerships, and impactful collaboration across each region.  Across the Pacific region, the 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 .

The Sentinel Landscapes Partnership also represents locations of strategic importance for DOD, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of the Interior.  Four selected projects fall within the Avon Park Air Force Range Sentinel Landscape, Fort Huachuca Sentinel Landscape, South Carolina Low Country Sentinel Landscape, and Joint Base Lewis-McChord Sentinel Landscape, all of which contribute directly to the goals of the  Sentinel Landscapes Partnership .