The Department of Defense (DoD), through the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP), announced on Jan. 13, that it's looking for companies to perhaps earn some funding pending a successful demonstration of technologies, particularly in remediation. ESTCP plans to transition environmental technology projects through the demonstration phase, thereby enabling promising technologies to receive regulatory and DoD end-user acceptance, and to be fielded and commercialized more effectively and more rapidly.

ESTCP is seeking innovative environmental technology demonstrations as candidates for funding for the following topic areas:

• Environmental Restoration - Technologies for the characterization, risk assessment, remediation, and management of contaminants in soil, sediments and water.
• Munitions Response - Technologies for the detection, classification, and remediation of military munitions on U.S. lands and waters.
• Resource Conservation - Tools, technologies, and methodologies that advance DoD's management of its natural and cultural resources.
• Weapons Systems and Platforms - Technologies to reduce, control, or eliminate the sources of wastes and emissions in the manufacturing, maintenance, and use of weapons systems and platforms.

Detailed instructions for DoD, Non-DoD federal, and BAA proposers are available on the ESTCP website: http://www.serdp-estcp.org/Funding-Opportunities/ESTCP-Solicitations.

Pre-proposals for environmental technologies must be in the following topic areas:

• Management of contaminated groundwater.
• In situ management of contaminated sediments.
• Military munitions detection, classification, and remediation.
• Recovery of threatened and endangered and sustainment of at-risk plant species.
• Inventory and Monitoring Technologies for Vertebrate Populations.
• Environmentally Sustainable Energetic Materials and Manufacturing Processes.

Proposals are due by Tuesday, March 8, 2011.

SOURCE: ESTCP press release