Defense Infrastructure: Actions Needed to Strengthen Utility Resilience Planning

Abstract

DOD installations rely on utilities, such as electricity, to accomplish their missions and disruptions can hamper military operations. Senate Report 114-49 included a provision for GAO to report on DOD-owned utility disruptions. This report (1) describes the number, causes and impacts of utility disruptions caused by the failure of DOD-owned utility infrastructure for fiscal years 2009 through 2015; (2) assesses the extent to which owners and managers of DOD-owned systems have access to utility disruption information; and (3) assesses the extent to which the implementation of a standardized facility condition assessment process provides DOD consistent information about its utility systems. GAO surveyed a representative group of 453 DOD-owned electric, water, wastewater, and natural gas utility systems, evaluated DOD policies and reports, interviewed officials, and conducted interviews with several survey respondents who experienced the most disruptions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1021217

Entities

People

  • Brian J. Lepore

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Facilities
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Energy Management
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Governments
  • Inventory
  • Maintenance
  • Money
  • National Governments
  • Naval Shore Facilities
  • Personnel Management
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.