Senate Armed Services Committee
Nomination of Brendan Owens to be Assistant Secretary for Energy, Installations and Environment at the Department of Defense; and other DOD Nominations
- Milancy Harris to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security
- Dr. Radha Plumb to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
- Brendan Owens to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment
- Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy
At the U.S. Green Building Council, Owens oversaw technical development of LEED, the green building rating.
If confirmed, Owens would oversee environmental planning and compliance, renewable energy, energy management, and energy resilience for DoD’s global portfolio of military bases and installations, housing, construction, and other property. The portfolio totals approximately 2.2 billion square feet of space across nearly 600,000 structures. It is valued at more than $1 trillion.
Some context for those numbers: Two billion square feet is larger than the built environment of most cities in the world. It is almost 100 times the amount of office space WeWork leased last year in the United States and Europe. One trillion dollars is more than the GDPs of Switzerland, South Africa, and Turkey.