South Florida Region - MIR
Abstract
This regional scale project integrates critical military resilience challenges into strategies, plans, and investments so that surrounding municipalities can foster, protect, and create a natural and man-made hazard resilient future. The project will consider the unique contributions of South Florida s military operations, including SOUTHCOM HQ, within an environmental sensitive region of extensive Atlantic coastline, bounded on the west by the Everglades, consisting of low elevation areas which are geologically porous and subject to salt water intrusion in drinking water supplies. The topography of the area leaves it subject to flooding and wind damage connected to both major hurricanes and sea level rise. The Project Team will produce, in partnership with key stakeholders, a Military Installation Resilience Review (MIR) and Implementation Action Plan to 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. This 18-month regional effort will leverage the work of robust existing resilience, university, and economic development organizations, the State of Florida, and cutting edge local and national expertise, and identify and incorporate the resiliency needs of military installations and commands that have previously not been fully integrated into regional resilience planning. The regional effort will support new state legislation requiring a statewide resilience plan and investment strategy that will further DoD interests in ensuring that regional bases maintain mission assurance, that DoD is leveraging its federal resources with state and local resources for maximum positive impact including access cutting-edge institutional expertise, resources, tools, data and analysis, multi-sector collaborative partnerships / relationships and future state infrastructure funding to address flooding and other critical infrastructure needs. Furthermore, a strategic review of civilian and military resilience standards will ensure that DoD has a common frame of reference across the region. Extreme weather and sea- level rise modeling, collection, integration of “consequence thresholds” for critical infrastructure, a scenario-based approach to stakeholder engagement, and a framework for capabilities and responsibilities of key stakeholders will ensure that the DoD has the information and strategies it needs to increase the adaptive capacity of the regional installations and adjacent communities to plan for and respond to the threats of changing conditions. The resulting deliverables will provide a roadmap for enhancing resilience for the benefit of all key entities. This project will be led by the South Florida Regional Planning Council and leverage of the expertise of key stakeholders including military leadership, academic / research institutions, the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, municipal and county governments, economic development organizations, and the State of Florida.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 24, 2022
- Source ID
- HQ00052110060
Entities
People
- Christina Miskis
Organizations
- Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
- Office of the Secretary of Defense