Ongoing effort to provide slip-on tankers to improve wildland fire readiness

Awarding Agency: U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) | Office of Wildlife Fire (OWF), Interior Business Center (IBC), Acquisition Services Directorate (AQD)

Climate change is driving the devastating intersection of extreme heat, drought, and woodland fire danger across the United States, creating wildfires that move with a speed and intensity previously unseen. This has created conditions in which wildfires overwhelm response capabilities, resulting in billions of dollars in economic losses, damage to natural resources, devastation to communities, and the tragic loss of human life.