Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment

Roles and responsibilities

The deputy assistant secretary of the Army for environment, safety and occupational health serves to coordinate the army's environmental programs, through providing policy, programming, and oversight. The DASA also serves as the primary advisor to army commanders on environment, safety and occupational health matters, along with executing the Army's arms control program.^[26]

Organization

In order to achieve its goals, the ASDA oversees a number of specialist directorates and organizations; these are:

• Munitions & Chemical Matters Directorate – is the primary advisor on the environmental, safety and occupational health aspects of explosive and toxic military chemicals. The directorate's scope includes: operational ranges, historic sea disposal of munitions, and life-cycle munitions management.^[27] The directorate exercises control over a number of, both cross-service DoD and US Army, programs; these being:
  • Department of Defense Explosives Safety Management Program^[28]
  • Department of Defense Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel Program^[29]
  • Department of Defense Chemical Demilitarization Program
  • Army 3Rs (Recognize, Retreat, Report) Explosives Safety Education Program^[30]
  • Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project (controlled by CMA)^[31][32]
  • Sea-Disposed Chemical Warfare Material Program^[33]
  • Low-Level Radioactive Waste Program
• Environmental Quality Directorate – controls army programs relating to natural resource and cultural resource legal requirements, as well as Native American affairs, including legal, treaty, and trust responsibilities. Furthermore, the directorate undertakes work in the fields of air, water, and waste legal requirements, environmental impact analysis, and environmental program performance auditing.^[34] The directorate's programs include:
  • Army Conservation Program
  • Army Environmental Compliance Program
• Restoration Directorate – is responsible for overseeing and controlling the cleanup of past contamination for which the Army is deemed responsible, 'at a facility or site owned, leased, or possessed by the Army within the United States at the time of actions leading to contamination'.^[35] The directorate overseas the following programs:
  • Base Realignment and Closure Restoration Program^[36]
    • Installation Restoration Program^[37]
    • Military Munitions Response Program^[38]
    • Building Demolition/Debris Removal Program
  • Formerly Used Defense Sites Program^[39]
  • Army Compliance Cleanup Program^[40]
  • Defense and State Memorandum of Agreement Program^[41]
  • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry^[42]
• Safety Directorate – sets policy and standards relating to Department of the Army safety matters and the Army Safety Program; proposes safety programming and funding; and provides safety program management and oversight.^[43]
• Occupational & Environmental Health Directorate – provides oversight, management, and coordination of OEH programs and services.^[44]
• Technology Directorate – advises on policy in relation to environmental technology needs and requirements.^[45]
  • Environmental Information Technology Management Program
  • National Defense Center for Energy and Environment
  • Army Environmental Quality Technology Program
  • US/German Data Exchange Agreement for Environmental Technology
  • Western Hemisphere Information Exchange Program
• Department of Defense Unexploded Ordnance Center of Excellence

Officeholders

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Portrait	Name	Tenure	ASA (IE&E)(s) served under	SecArmy(s) served under	President(s) served under
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health
	Hershell E. Wolfe[46]	April 10, 2011–May 2015	Katherine G. Hammack	John M. McHugh	Barack Obama
	Eugene Collins	June 15, 2015–November 2019	Eric Fanning	John McHugh Mark Esper	Donald Trump
	Amy L. Borman	March 2020–present	Alex A. Beehler	Ryan D. McCarthy Christine Wormuth	Donald Trump Joe Biden

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Roles and responsibilities

The deputy assistant secretary of the Army for installations, housing and partnerships serves to provide assistance, advice, policy, programming, and oversight, of all matters relating to army installations, including: real estate, military construction, engineering, housing, and base realignments and closures. All of this seeks to create sustainable installations to support the Army's mission, along with provide an excellent quality of life for serving personnel and their families.^[48]

Organization

• Residential Communities Initiative^[49]
• Privatization of Army Lodging Program^[50]
• Office of Historic Properties & Partnerships – raises awareness, renovates, restores, and preserves the Army's inventory of historic buildings.^[51]

Officeholders

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Portrait	Name	Tenure	ASA (IE&E)(s) served under	SecArmy(s) served under	President(s) served under
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Housing and Partnerships
	Joseph F. Calcara	March 2008–March 2012	Katherine G. Hammack	Pete Geren John M. McHugh	Barack Obama
Position vacant
	Paul D. Cramer[52]	June 30, 2013–September 2020	Katherine G. Hammack Alex A. Beehler	John M. McHugh Eric Fanning Mark Esper Ryan D. McCarthy	Barack Obama Donald Trump
	Scott Chamberlain[53]	September 2020–October 2020	Alex A. Beehler	Ryan D. McCarthy	Donald Trump
	Carla K. Coulson[47]	October 2020–present	Alex A. Beehler	Ryan D. McCarthy Christine Wormuth	Donald Trump Joe Biden

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Roles and responsibilities

The deputy assistant secretary of the Army for energy and sustainability serves to provide assistance, advice, policy, programming, and oversight, of all matters relating to the Army's ability to access energy and water, in order to enhance the Army's operational capabilities, enhance the current facilities, and support the state of readiness.^[54]

Organization

• Office of Energy Initiatives – serves to oversee, develop, implement large-scale energy projects related to army installations.^[55]

Officeholders

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Portrait	Name	Tenure	ASA (IE&E)(s) served under	SecArmy(s) served under	President(s) served under
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Energy and Sustainability
	Richard G. Kidd IV[56]	October 25, 2010–July 2016[57]	Katherine G. Hammack	John M. McHugh Eric Fanning	Barack Obama
	Jack Surash[58]	September 2016–January 20, 2021	Katherine G. Hammack Alex A. Beehler	Eric Fanning Mark Esper Ryan D. McCarthy	Barack Obama Donald Trump
	Michael F. McGhee[59]	January 20, 2021 – March 24, 2021	Jack Surash	John E. Whitley	Joe Biden
	Christine Ploschke	March 24, 2021 – April 2, 2022	Jack Surash Paul Farnan	John E. Whitley Christine Wormuth	Joe Biden
	Jack Surash	April 4, 2022-July 2022	Rachel Jacobson	Christine Wormuth	Joe Biden
	Christine Ploschke	August 2022–August 2024	Rachel Jacobson	Christine Wormuth	Joe Biden

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Roles and responsibilities

The deputy assistant secretary of the Army for strategic integration served to integrate strategic installation, environmental and energy policy initiatives and requirements, mustered by the other three deputy assistant secretaries, into the Department of Defense and Army planning processes, and other areas of governance.^[61]

Organization

• Quality of Life Task Force
• COVID-19 Lessons Learned
• Installations of the Future Initiative
• Regional Environmental and Energy Offices^[62]
  • Regional Environmental and Energy Office–Northern
  • Regional Environmental and Energy Office–Southern
  • Regional Environmental and Energy Office–Central
  • Regional Environmental and Energy Office–Western
• Army Environmental Policy Institute

Officeholders

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Portrait	Name	Tenure	ASA (IE&E)(s) served under	SecArmy(s) served under	President(s) served under
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategic Integration
	Mark D. Rocke	2008–2015			Barack Obama
	John Pellegrino	June 2015–January 2017	Katherine G. Hammack	John M. McHugh Eric Fanning	Barack Obama
	Richard G. Kidd IV	February 2017–January 20, 2021	Alex A. Beehler	Mark Esper Ryan D. McCarthy	Donald Trump
	John R. Thompson	January 20, 2021–March 2021	–	–	Joe Biden
	Shelley A. Richardson[63]	March 2021–June 30, 2021	–	John E. Witley Christine Wormuth	Joe Biden

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