Investigating the USACE Operational Condition Assessment Process Current and Future
Abstract
The US Army Corps of Engineers operates, maintains, and manages more than $232 billion worth of the Nations water resource infrastructure and relies on the Operational Condition Assessment (OCA) process to determine the condition of the assets and their components. The sheer number of components, all of equal OCA scheduling priority, creates challenges in ensuring that assessments are conducted in a timely manner and that data generated are of sufficient quality to inform resource allocation decisions. This research applied methods from systems design to determine the OCA system as-is state and create a stakeholder-informed vision of a to-be state that addresses current system challenges. To meet its objective of providing current assessments of asset condition, the OCA system must provide four high-level functions: provide access to asset data, conduct assessments, determine asset risk, and prioritize and schedule assessments. The development of capabilities to provide these functions will facilitate the achievement of the OCA system to-be vision: a consistent view of asset condition and risk across the enterprise.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 17, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1125202
Entities
People
- Jonathan K. Alt
- Willie H. Brown
Organizations
- Engineer Research and Development Center