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Title: Preparing the USAF Contracting Career Field for the next Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Response(HADR) within the Continental United States
Authors: Geoffrey Bender
Chase Lehocky
Keywords: Contingency Contracting Training
Air Force Contingency Contracting Training
Humanitarian Assistance
Disaster Recovery
JP 4-10
FEMA
National Response Framework
CJCSM 3500.03
Yoder’s Three-Tier Model
Issue Date: 9-May-2021
Publisher: Acquisition Research Program
Citation: Published--Unlimited Distribution
Series/Report no.: Student Poster;SYM-AM-21-180
Student Paper;NPS-LM-21-011
Abstract: 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 five 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.
Description: Logistics Management / Graduate Student Research
URI: https://dair.nps.edu/handle/123456789/4331
Appears in Collections:NPS Graduate Student Theses & Reports

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