The objective of this Statement of Need was to improve the analysis of compound threats such as natural hazards, resource unavailability, and technology failure to Department of Defense (DoD) installations through basic or applied research focused on the development of appropriate frameworks and modeling methods. Additionally, the relationship between risk of compounding events and resilience to them should have been investigated since the lack of recovery and adaptation capabilities hold the potential to contribute to the risk of precipitating additional events. Specific research objectives included the following:

• Development of methodological approaches for assessment of the gains of resilience with specific strategies/structures, considering the costs and benefits with and without specific disruptive events and unknown systematic threats.
• Mapping the interaction of threats in ways that identify installation and facility vulnerabilities to multiple types of events.
• Development of strategies that support recovery from compound or catastrophic events that consider the role of DoD in the surrounding community.

Proposals were not required to address all of the above listed specific research objectives. Proposers should have noted that advanced technology demonstration was not being sought.

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