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Gaps in available data hinder framework implementation

• Implementing a systematic valuation framework of the type presented in this report requires the Air Force to collect and maintain different types of cost and performance data.
• Cognizant of the burden any data collection effort imposes on organizations, researchers nonetheless find that data that can be easily gathered and compiled could pay dividends by improving the quality of the analysis embedded in the valuation framework.

Mission owners and base civil engineers bring different perspectives and expertise

• Mission owners are in the best position to determine the level of power resilience required to support their mission, whether across bases, within a base across facilities or infrastructure assets, or for individual assets.
• Base civil engineers, given their association with particular installations and physical infrastructure, bring a perspective informed by their locations and understanding of materiel solutions to power resilience problems.

Separate organizations, contracts and subcontracts, procurements, and personnel can create blind spots when identifying infrastructure-related vulnerabilities

• Division of labor made sense when these support systems were largely decoupled from one another: when communications meant copper wire telephony, and before water-cooled air conditioners were mandatory equipment for protecting sensitive servers and other electronics. These conditions no longer apply, as interdependencies among these systems have become ubiquitous.

This report describes how the U.S. Air Force currently sets priorities among its investments in power resilience measures, and how it could improve on decisionmaking processes to ensure that available resources are efficiently and effectively used to increase mission resilience in the face of a wide range of power outage scenarios.

The framework and recommendations presented in this report are aimed at improving the Air Force's ability to make risk-informed decisions about power resilience investments. The goals of the framework are to identify and present cost- and performance-related information in a clear manner that facilitates decisionmaking.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Approaches to Valuation and Desirable Attributes of a Valuation Framework

• Chapter Three

  Current Air Force Approaches to Power Resilience Investments

• Chapter Four

  Proposed Power Resilience Valuation Framework

• Chapter Five

  Conclusions and Recommendations

• Appendix A

  Literature Review of Risk Perception by Individuals

• Appendix B

  Non-DoD Valuation Approaches and Processes

• Appendix C

  Upstream Processes for Setting and Modifying Requirements