Grounded : an enterprise-wide look at Department of the Air Force installation exposure to natural hazards : implications for infrastructure investment decisionmaking and continuity of operations planning / Anu Narayanan, Michael J. Lostumbo, Kristin Van Abel, Michael T. Wilson, Anna Jean Wirth, Rahim Ali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Narayanan, Anu, author.

Lostumbo, Michael, author.

Van Abel, Kristin, author.

Wilson, Michael T. (Michael Thomas), author.

Wirth, Anna Jean, author.

Ali, Rahim, author.

Contributor:

Project Air Force (U.S.). Resource Management Program.

United States. Department of the Air Force.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Air Force--Facilities.

United States.

United States. Air Force.

Air bases--Environmental aspects--United States.

Air bases.

Air bases--United States--Management.

Management.

Air bases--Environmental aspects.

Physical Description:

xiv, 131 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2021]

Summary:

The authors of this report consider the exposure of Department of the Air Force (DAF) installations to flooding, high winds, and wildfires-hazards that have affected DAF installations in the recent past. The authors characterize exposure using three different types of data: base boundaries, geospatial data on airfield and select electric power infrastructure that supports DAF installations, and publicly available data on natural hazards. The presented analysis should be viewed as a first step toward more thoroughly cataloging installation exposure to natural hazards, rather than as a definitive or comprehensive assessment. Additionally, for the high winds hazard, the authors compare the policy options of preemptively hardening a set of installations and the potential costs of rebuilding post-disaster. Finally, they consider wider application of hazard seasonality data to inform the selection of backup sites for contingency planning in cases where a disruption forces a temporary mission relocation. Some installations face high levels of exposure to the natural hazards considered in this analysis. The following coastal installations face multiple hazards: Eglin, Hurlburt, Keesler, Langley, MacDill, Patrick, and Tyndall. Although the DAF should be able to improve decisionmaking by making some decisions at the enterprise level, the uncertainties surrounding these decisions will be great, and there is no substitute for deeper-dive assessments conducted locally. The process and inputs that the DAF selects for making investment decisions regarding natural hazard resilience should be flexible, allowing for updates as new information becomes available.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

197740670X

9781977406705

OCLC:

1263627851