Providing Research and End-user Products to Accelerate Readiness and Environmental Security (PREPARES)
Abstract
PREPARES will leverage and build upon Minerva products by incorporating their findings into operationally-relevant planning scenarios that accelerate the Department’s understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political dynamics most likely to be affected by climate and environmental change in strategically important areas of the world. By aligning research objectives with the priorities of operational end users who can apply the tools and knowledge products to their areas of responsibility, the proposed enhancement would translate and integrate results from 6.1 strategic and global-centric analyses to provide operational and tactical assessments to inform CONPLAN and OPLAN, focusing on specific regions and detailed scenarios for the warfighter. PREPARES uniquely applies research to integrate physical climate and social sciences and accelerate “research to operations”, directly impacting military operational planning and preparations to mitigate the security risks from climate and environmental change. This effort also will rapidly produce the tools and products the end-users need to sustain data-informed planning and analysis for operations and engagements with partners and allies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- e7e69c66534901f493d71f2513bffb96