The Department of Defense (DoD) ESTCP Program sought evaluations that assess the impacts of past weather events on DoD installations to inform mitigation strategies, emergency preparedness, recovery plans and rebuilding designs. More frequent and stronger natural disasters pose greater threats to the stability of the built and natural infrastructure on military installations. Extreme weather events can lead to long duration utility outages and/or failure of infrastructure, increasing the potential for disruption in other mission critical operations.

• Phase I evaluations should perform analyses on the impacts of past weather events such as hurricanes, heat waves, ice storms, high-intensity rainfall, and droughts on DoD installations. ESTCP is interested in innovative approaches to conducting these retrospective evaluations with particular interest in the following elements:
• Incorporating findings into installation master planning efforts.
• Identifying failure modes of infrastructure or systems that resulted in loss of function or irreparable damage and preventative measures that worked and didn’t work.
• Assessment of baseline conditions and consideration of building vintage, construction materials and techniques.
• Pricing the cost and economic losses from damage that was done by individual weather events, or seasonal weather events and associated recovery costs.
• Assessment of mission impact either from direct input from mission owners or through analysis of critical systems performance (electric, water, back-up power).

If Phase I analysis results in recommendations that include technological solutions that address above elements, successful projects may be invited to submit Phase II proposals for demonstration projects following the completion of the Phase I efforts. Pre-proposals requested under this call for proposals were for Phase I efforts only.

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