PREPARING THE USAF CONTRACTING CAREER FIELD FOR THE NEXT HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE DISASTER RESPONSE WITHIN THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES
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Authors
Bender, Geoffrey S.
Lehocky, Chase
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contingency contracting training
training
Air Force contingency contracting training
humanitarian assistance
disaster recovery
exercise development
JP 4-10
FEMA
National Response Framework
CJCSM 3500.03
Yoder’s Three-Tier Model
training
Air Force contingency contracting training
humanitarian assistance
disaster recovery
exercise development
JP 4-10
FEMA
National Response Framework
CJCSM 3500.03
Yoder’s Three-Tier Model
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Yoder, Elliott C.
Gibbons, Deborah E.
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2020-12
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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This project’s focus is on the alignment of a U.S. Air Force (USAF) exercise design process with FEMA's challenges regarding humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR) events. The authors applied Joint Publication 4-10 and Yoder’s Three Tier Model approach to inform a disaster model that delineates roles and responsibilities for stakeholders. The authors also reviewed 104 after-action reports to identify trends within FEMA’s 15 emergency support functions and added three more categories to capture trends: finance, manpower, and training. This research resulted in six recommendations to the USAF contracting exercise designers: 1) ensure that exercise frameworks are aligned to the lead agency; 2) consolidate the many advance contracts throughout the federal agencies into one location such as Acquisition Gateway or GSA Advantage, or on a SharePoint site; 3) continue adopting category management practices within the disaster environment in order to effectively implement advance contracts; 4) further refine the career field education training plan with tiered development under a synthesized HADR framework; 5) consolidate the federal external stakeholders into a simplified location to improve the ability to research trends within the USAF contracting career field; and 6) ask other federal agencies for their approaches while de-conflicting procurement strategies.
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