Incident Response and Recovery Prioritization

• Goal /Aspiration for Project

  • Develop an understanding of recovery and implement a model that represents infrastructure recovery under the various constraints imposed by a disaster scenario to allow for the identification of best practices and recovery prioritizations that can be used to minimize the impact of a disaster.  Evaluate the efficacy, cascading impacts, and unintended consequences of different recovery practices.

• Approach/Methods/Models

  • Develop CAS models of interacting infrastructure networks.  Conduct sensitivity analyses to identify conditions that increase the effectiveness of restoration and recovery by decreasing the number of post-disaster associated deaths.

• Status, Accomplishments and Next Steps

  • Completed development of initial models of population centers, wireline telecommunications, electric power, hospitals, and injury state transitions.  Using these models, initial tests were performed to determine whether the models behave in an expected manner and if they are capable of producing the intended results.

  • The next phase of implementation will focus on including additional elements that were developed in the conceptual model and determining the effects of uncertainty to enable future development. These elements include geospatial linkages and specific disaster regions, along with additional infrastructures of wireless telecommunications and water/wastewater.

• CASoS Goals: General Capabilities

  • Interacting, adaptive networks

• CASoS Goals: Other Potential Applications

  • Pre-disaster planning to evaluate efficacy of recovery practices and determine resources that will be necessary and in conflict based on varying levels of implementation of best practices.

• Acknowledgements

  • This application has been funded by the Department of Homeland Security through the NISAC program.

Publications

• Strategic Recovery Model Capability Development (2010)