The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has unveiled a second wind turbine in Utah as part of the Tooele Army Depot’s sustainable energy network project.

USACE said Monday the new 300-foot turbine and the first unit completed in July 2010 will contribute to a $6.5 million sustainable energy network project that aims to generate 2 megawatts of power when it becomes fully operational later this year.

Both two turbines could generate up to 60 percent of the depot’s energy requirements combined, the Army added.

A 1.5-megawatt solar array with 429 Stirling engine solar dishes across 15 acres will also contribute to Tooele’s renewable energy mission of producing its own energy needs come 2020.

The Corps of Engineers’ collaboration with the depot is part of the Energy Conservation Investment Program that aims to support military installations and provide environmental and tactical benefits.

Frank Kendall, acquisition chief at the Defense Department, has said the fiscal 2017 DoD budget proposal supports the department’s efforts to help the U.S. maintain a long-term advantage in military technology, DoD News reported Wednesday.

He told the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee Wednesday that DoD requested a $3 billion increase in research and development funds for the next fiscal year.

“This budget increases the use of prototyping, demonstrations and experimentation to help the department more rapidly mature technology and assess the impact these innovative technologies can have on the future force,” Kendall added, the publication reports.

The report said Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Arati Prabhakar informed subcommittee members during the same meeting that DARPA collaborates with various companies, universities and laboratories to discover breakthrough technologies that can aid in national security efforts.

She cited an agency-run program that aims to build artificial intelligence-based aircraft technology intended to jam adversaries’ radar systems.

Amy Hess, executive assistant director of the FBI‘s science and technology branch, has said the FBI needs access to electronic information to aid in its investigations amid technological changes and evolving national security and criminal threats.

Hess made the remarks in testimony delivered Tuesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight and investigation subpanel.

She cited the use of encrypted messaging tools by the Islamic State organization and other terrorist groups to radicalize individuals to perform terrorist attacks.

Hess told the House panel how the FBI implements the judicial authorization principle in order to ensure public safety as well as the individuals’ right to private communications.

“One of the bedrock principles upon which we rely to guide us is the principle of judicial authorization: that if an independent judge finds legally sufficient reason to believe that certain private communications contain evidence of a crime, then the government can conduct a limited search for that evidence,” she said.

Hess also noted the need for the U.S. government and the public to engage in a dialogue to discuss the impact of encryption on law enforcement agencies’ investigations.

The Defense Department plans to explore options on how it can assist the U.K. in maritime surveillance efforts before the British military receives its first P-8 Poseidon patrol aircraft from the U.S., Defense News reported Tuesday.

According to the story by Aaron Mehta, the U.K. seeks to procure up to nine Boeing-built P-8s as part of efforts to increase the country’s airborne anti-submarine warfare capabilities.

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work told the publication that Philip Dunne, British minister for defense procurement, has asked him what options they might consider to help address a maritime patrol capability gap in the U.K.

“We’re going to talk with the Navy and see what might be able to be worked out,” Work told Defense News.

Mehta reports some British military personnel have trained on the U.S. Navy‘s P-8s since after the U.K. cancelled its Nimrod acquisition program in 2010.

Robert Work also told Defense News that the U.S. will work to ensure the P-8 production line will not face interruptions that could possibly delay deliveries of the aircraft to the U.K.