What Happened
Department Seeks Innovative Funding Solutions for Homeland Base Plan
The Pentagon is planning to pursue public-private partnerships to help fund its FORTRESS America homeland base-hardening initiative, which aims to make individual homeland bases more secure through five key pillars. The initiative, unveiled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, focuses on energy independence, boosting supply chains, and hardening installations, among other areas. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment Dale Marks emphasized the importance of public-private partnerships in driving the effort forward, citing the need to move at speed and scale. The plan was first reported by Breaking Defense.