MacDill AFB - MIR
Abstract
This project will integrate on a regional scale critical military resilience concerns into strategies, plans, and investments in surrounding municipalities to foster, protect, and create a natural and man-made hazard resilient future that considers the unique contributions of Tampa Bay s military operations within a broad costal, environmentally sensitive region. Through this collaborative project, the Project Team will produce, in partnership with key stakeholders, a Military Installation Resilience Review (MIRR) and Implementation Action plan. This project will enhance hazard readiness and response today to both natural and man-made hazards, while directly addressing future conditions that require longer term planning, mitigation and investment. The project will build off a 2019 Energy Resilience Study conducted by MacDill in 2019 by updating energy findings/recommendations, but will also examine new areas encompassing the interdependence of installation and community infrastructure on accomplishment of military mission. A collaborative stakeholder-driven process will be used to identify and scope sectors to be analyzed (infrastructure systems, transportation systems, communication systems, water and wastewater, power and other relevant sectors) to assess how climate hazards will impact critical services. TBRPC and their consultant will work with DoD installation representatives and other stakeholders (utilities, private sector stakeholders, public sector stakeholders and community representatives) to identify key threats and vulnerabilities, and possible priorities for mitigation. This multi-sector collaborative effort will leverage the work of robust existing resilience organizations, the State of Florida, and cutting edge local and national expertise. The MIRR will provide the opportunity to identify and incorporate the resiliency needs of a military installation and commands that have previously not been fully integrated into regional resilience planning to date. This effort will include a comprehensive review of civilian and military resilience standards to ensure a common frame of reference across the region. Also included will be extreme weather and sea-level rise modeling, collection, and integration of "consequence thresholds" for critical infrastructure, a scenario-based approach to stakeholder engagement, and a framework for capabilities and responsibilities of key stakeholders. The assessment process led by the TBRPC, in collaboration with various entities around the region, will utilize previously developed regional tools and plans, best practices, and together with collection and integration of qualitative data illuminate threats, impacts, and consequences of risks to infrastructure in the study area. This will facilitate knowledge exchange between key stakeholders, increasing the adaptive capacity of the regional installations and adjacent communities to plan for and respond to the treats of changing conditions. The resulting products will provide a roadmap for enhancing resilience for the benefit for all key entities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 24, 2022
- Source ID
- HQ00052110059
Entities
People
- Cara Serra
Organizations
- Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense