{"id":69791,"date":"2024-10-16T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/10\/16\/new-microgrid-standard-aims-to-rein-in-expeditionary-power-vendors\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:14:31","slug":"new-microgrid-standard-aims-to-rein-in-expeditionary-power-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2024\/10\/16\/new-microgrid-standard-aims-to-rein-in-expeditionary-power-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"New microgrid standard aims to rein in expeditionary-power vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is pushing to assert its new standard for connecting battlefield power systems, creating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2022\/02\/08\/with-new-climate-strategy-army-aims-to-prepare-soldiers-for-harsher-environments\/\" target=\"_blank\">expeditionary microgrids<\/a> without the constraint of vendor-specific components, according to service officials in the Program Executive Office for Combat Support and Combat Service Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were seeing a lot of these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2022\/04\/12\/power-struggle-how-the-us-army-is-tackling-the-logistics-of-battlefield-electricity\/\" target=\"_blank\">power systems emerge <\/a>that were different pieces of a microgrid, but right now, all of the microgrids that are out there use proprietary interfaces to talk,\u201d Cory Goetz, who is the technical management division chief for the Army\u2019s Expeditionary and Sustainment Systems program manager\u2019s office, told Defense News shortly before the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s annual conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In order to develop the capability to get all of these systems to communicate, Goetz said, the Army decided to develop what it calls the Tactical Microgrid Standard, or TMS, in partnership with industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standard was published officially in 2023, allowing for an open architecture for competitive procurement of power systems that can tie into an expeditionary microgrid architecture, Goetz explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt allows us not to have to pure-fleet everything in the Department of Defense with tactical power. If someone has a good system, say it\u2019s an energy storage system, if they make it with TMS, we can incorporate it into what we do after, of course, verifying it\u2019s compliant,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standards initiative is the basis of an effort called the Small Tactical Expeditionary Power, or STEP, project, which consists of small systems with hybrid capability that soldiers can operate quietly, toggling between fuel-burning energy production and batteries, Goetz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the Army is working on a Universal Power Gateway capability on the TMS basis. Its idea is to tie any power source or power storage capability into the service\u2019s Advanced Medium Mobile Power Source (AMMPS) generator, made by Cummins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe UPG, that\u2019s an emerging requirement that we see pointing to a program of record,\u201d Goetz said. \u201cIt allows us to tie into those vehicles that will be exporting power in the future, and then be able to hybridize our generators for resilience and efficiency.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As result, hybrid-electric vehicles would become nodes bundling what are now individual power connections to generators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program office is also working to push the microgrid standard to industry \u201cin a more wholesale way, in a more organized way,\u201d Goetz said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials have created a user group, currently counting 40 companies, that they hope will draw relevant 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