To assist the Department in responding to these challenges, start a dialogue, and help frame a path forward, several organizational elements of DoD’s research and development (R&D) community convened a workshop in July 2011 involving both DoD researchers and policy makers, as well as other key elements of the federal climate change research and climate services community. The focus of this workshop was to establish a DoD network of funding entities and research centers and laboratories involved in climate change-related research and demonstration and to identify the role that DoD’s R&D community could serve to (1) assist DoD policy makers by providing the technical foundation for advancing new policies related to climate change and (2) provide DoD resource, infrastructure, and operational managers the science information, models, and tools needed to implement the effects of policy “on the ground.”