1. USACE Resilience Program
USACE Resilience Initiative
Program Manager:
Ms. Sheri Moore
Resilience Initiative, PM,
Ms. Melissa Reynolds, P.E.
CESAJ Contact,
08 DEC 16
Quick poll: how many of you, by a show of hands, remember receiving the 2016 USACE Resilience Initiative Roadmap back in May? Who of those read it? It was sent to everyone at once, so please let me know if you didn’t get it, we can get it to you.
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Connection to other initiatives and developments
Risk / Dam & Levee Safety
Climate
Sustainability
We’re sensitive to ‘initiative fatigue’ and taking care to ensure that the efforts are aligned, work in concert, and don’t overly draw on the same resources.
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Briefly, why are we doing this Resilience Initiative?
USACE is a learning organizations
A focus as the top and with our federal partners to increase resilience
From the grassroots - communities in which we live and work are seeking ways to more resilient and get out of negative repetitive cycles.
Today’s Purpose:
Briefly cover resilience in its current context
Present on the USACE Resilience Initiative for your situational awareness
What’s ahead
Alignment with other initiatives
Discussion
Outline (for info)
Resilience in its current context
Drivers for the USACE Resilience Initiative
USACE Principles of Resilience
Leadership
The 2016 URI Roadmap
Strategies
Areas of application
Teams of Teams
Timeline
US Army Corps of Engineers
BUILDING STRONG®

2. USACE Principles of Resilience

3. Qualities of Resilience
Shifts in thinking related to resilience
Proactive vs. Reactive approaches
Sustainable vs. Sacrificial features
Adaptive vs. Static infrastructure
Risk-Informed vs. Deterministic design criteria
System-wide vs. Component-based considerations
Diverse vs. ‘robust-yet-fragile’ systems & solutions
Resilience Ideals
Collaborative
Diverse
Holistic
Inclusive
Multi-beneficial
Proactive

4. Spheres of Resilience Community Resilience System Resilience Project
Community
Resilience
System
Resilience
Project
Resilience
When we talk about resilience, what scale are we thinking about it in?
Represented by the small circles with the castles or other icon. There’s the project resilience; Corps projects and their components, or other people’s projects, structures, facilities, etc.
Then there is system resilience, which truly integrated projects that comprise various system resilience, represented by the blue ellipses
There are systems comprised of entirely Corps projects, some with Corps and others’ projects, and, of course, systems that don’t have any Corps contributions
These systems all make up the community, which in this context, can be described as a system of systems.
Further, the community resilience is self-defined: it could be a neighborhood, or it could be a city the size of New York – that’s up to the community to define
What’s most important to not lose sight of is the fact that we are doing all of this for people: whether it’s transportation, jobs for the economy, or churches – it’s all about people. It’s not design and construction for its sake – it’s for the communities in which we live & work.

5. Types of Resilience Disaster Personal Engineering Economic Ecological
…to All Hazards
Contribution from USACE changes with community needs
Disaster
Personal
Engineering
Economic
Ecological
Critical Infrastructure
Response to Climate Change
Social
Let’s talk types of resilience
Firstly, when we talk about ‘resilience’ in its larger context, it’s inclusive and we mean all types of resilience
These types are related to all hazards - natural, man-made, economic, social, etc.
I like to use this slide to show that ‘big R’ Resilience can be thought of as a circle, and the role the Corps plays in ‘Resilience” is an arc on that circle.
The arc will be larger or smaller depending on the role we have in the community and will relate to various types of resilience
If there’s a coastal community with an installation, regulatory, a port that we have projects at then, then our resilience arc might be very large.
If it’s a small community without an installation, water or drought challenges, then maybe our arc is very small to non-existent.
I think it’s helpful to visualize the scalar nature of our contribution
Environmental
Cyber

6. USACE Resilience Strategies
Strategy 1: Evolve Standards & Criteria
Policy and guidance to require risk-informed design integrated across disciplines for the appropriate level of resilience
Greater accounting for uncertainty & providing for adaptive capacity
Strategy 2: Support Community Resilience
Internally identifying how each mission area in USACE can best support community resilience
Work collaboratively (federal, state, regional, community, and other partnerships)
Strategy 3 – Focus on Priority Areas
Such as:
Catalog of USACE Resilience Efforts
Provide Nonstructural Flood Risk Reduction Assistance
Identify/Develop Tools to Assess Resilience
Develop Resilience Considerations for Military Installations
Develop Resilience Considerations in Coastal Areas
Develop Resilience Considerations for Inland Areas
Clarify Resilience in the USACE CW Planning Process
Support Drought Contingency Efforts
Develop in conjunction with CW Sustainability and other initiatives

7. Today & the Way Ahead ACTIVITY TIME
Initiate training to instill practices
Initiative
Sunset,
(T) 2019
Increasing external collaboration as internal agency needs and perspectives are better understood
Future case study findings
Process Changes
ACTIVITY
Formal Guidance Updates
Issue Implementation Guidance
Update Catalog of Resilience Efforts
Develop Recommended Actions, now – NOV 2016
Initiated URI Guidance Updates, JUN 2016
Roadmap Released, MAY 2016
Small Teams Launch, JAN 2016
Internal Catalog of Resilience Efforts, AUG 2015
Internal initial Draft Strategy, APR 2015
USACE-wide Initiative Kickoff, MAR 2015
TIME

8. Resilience Initiative Website:
Questions? Discussion
Resilience Initiative Website: