Center for a New American Security

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus addressed members of the press following the Navy’s Earth Day supersonic test flight of its "Green Hornet," an F/A-18 Super Hornet strike fighter powered by a 50/50 blend of camelina sourced biofuel and traditional JP-5 jet fuel. The test flight, conducted at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD, is another demonstration of the Navy’s commitment to diversifying its fuel sources to ensure mission effectiveness and promote national security interests.

The Center for a New American Security released a new report yesterday, Broadening Horizons: Climate Change and the Armed Forces, that addresses the dual issues of energy security and climate change, which will require the Department of Defense, U.S. armed services and combatant commands to explore how they might plan and adapt, help partner national around the world adapt, and mitigate climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. The authors, Commander Herbert E. Carmen, CNAS Senior Military Fellow, Christine Parthemore, CNAS Bacevich Fellow and Will Rogers, CNAS Research Assistant, identify many of the key policy questions and trade-offs, and assist in mapping a road ahead that meets U.S. national security needs. Be sure to register for next Wednesday’s launch of the report, featuring a keynote address from the Honorable Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, and a panel discussion with David Kilcullen, President and CEO of Caerus and renowned irregular warfare expert; Rear Admiral Philip Hart Cullom, USN, lead of the Navy’s Task Force Energy and Director of the Fleet Readiness Division on the Navy Staff; Robert Kaplan, CNAS Senior Fellow and correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly; and Christine Parthemore, CNAS Bacevich Fellow.