ESTCP projects were sought that resulted in innovative tools, methodologies, or technologies that improved the ability of the Department of Defense to manage risk from wildfires and support the use of prescribed fire for management of ecosystems, imperiled species habitat management, invasive and pest species management, fuels reduction, training area access, and other range sustainment purposes. This topic sought proposals that demonstrated innovative but technically mature technologies and their associated methodologies. ESTCP gave priority to those technologies and methodologies that integrated emerging technology and novel data sources for fire applications and tools that met specific management-defined needs. Proposed technologies and methodologies were required to have completed proof-of-principle testing. ESTCP supports test and evaluation at a scale sufficient to determine the operational performance of the technology or methodology and to estimate expected full-scale implementation costs. Proposals should have provided adequate evidence that the technology once demonstrated and evaluated would be mature enough to be transitioned into use by natural resource managers, wildland fire managers, or other ecosystem management professionals at the end of the project.

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