American Power Group Corporation, GreenMan Technologies, announced that its subsidiary, American Power Group, Inc. has signed an agreement with The Horizon Strategies Group for business development and sales support services to introduce APG’s Turbocharged Natural Gas Dual Fuel Technology to the Department of Defense.
HSG is a Washington D.C. based company that identifies emerging technologies and matches them to the problems troubling government customers. The HSG team is comprised of over twenty professionals with over 500 collective years of experience in both the federal government and private industry. Most of the HSG team has spent a large portion of their careers working in the DoD and Intelligence Community and have a solid understanding of the government customer.
Joshua Hartman is HSG’s Chief Executive Officer . Prior to his current position, Mr. Hartman served as Staff Director for the National Commission on Research & Development Investment; as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics; as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space & Intelligence; and worked on the House Armed Services Committee as well as the House Appropriations Committee of the U.S. Congress. Mr. Hartman has been awarded the Secretary of Defense Outstanding Public Service Award in recognition of his service. He began his career as an officer of the U.S. Air Force and holds a B.S. in Physics from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an M.S. with honors in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University.
Mr. Hartman commented, “Cuts to the Defense budget are forcing new solutions into our military infrastructure, while the DoD Green Initiatives and the rising cost of fuel have put a big target on the Department’s diesel consumption. American Power Group’s technology will produce significant and tangible savings now. We are excited about working with APG to help the U.S. military cope with these changing and difficult times.”
L yle Jensen, American Power Group Corporation’s President and Chief Executive Officer stated, “As reported by the DoD, last year their energy bills totaled approximately $20 billion and they consumed an estimated five billion gallons of petroleum. The DoD has ships, planes, vehicles, and generators designed to use one-hundred percent petroleum based fuels for the foreseeable future and are looking for an alternative fuel technology that is compatible with their existing equipment and storage infrastructure. We believe APG’s natural gas conversion technology can become a viable solution in reducing the cost and emissions of diesel fuel used in all branches of the federal government. We look forward to working with Josh and his HSG team to develop and penetrate this large addressed market.”
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, September 12, 2012