Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience Observations from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria (2020) / Chapter Skim
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5 The Federal Emergency Management Agency s Current Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges
5 The Federal Emergency Management Agency s Current Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges
Pages 85-90
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. The 2017 Hurricane After Action Report completed for hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria further reinforced the need for FEMA to take a more strategic approach to addressing supply chain resilience -- including the need for better understanding of, and relationships with, the private sector and critical infrastructure sectors (FEMA, 2018a)
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As part of this update, FEMA has established a new emergency support function, ESF14, which "supports the coordination of cross-sector operations, including stabilization of key supply chains and community lifelines, among infrastructure owners and operators, businesses, and their government partners" (FEMA, 2019a) The primary focus of ESF14 is two-fold: 0 assessment, analysis, and situational awareness, such as supporting cross-sector planning, using modeling and simulation to better understand and identify critical infrastructure or supply nodes, ensuring that organizations are provided good information for decision making, and sharing information on the status and needs of critical infrastructure and the private sector supply chains 0 operational coordination, including evaluating private sector offers of materials or technical assistance, aligning government efforts with business and private sector activities, and coordinating assistance of short- and long-term restoration activities 86
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This network is a contracted team that can provide insight on the private sector supply chain land scape to inform FEMA decision-making processes in disaster response operations.3 The Supply Chain Analysis Network will be able to provide (i) rapid-response "ecosystem assessments" of a designated area's inbound and outbound flow, principal nodes, links and/or channels, and critical dependencies; and (ii)
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Yet during active response operations, they can face constraints in terms of access to certain critical information and in terms of information sharing among states or among counties and communities within a state. Some smaller state and local offices can also face practical constraints in terms of staffing resources and physical operating space for an Emergency Operations Center (which, for instance, can limit capacity for face-to-face cooperation with private sector representatives)
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These insights, coupled with political will and strategic management, provide a unique opportunity to transform the way that FEMA and its many partners think about and interact with the critical supply chains upon which we all depend. The 2017 hurricane season posed tremendous challenges to FEMA and other emergency management partners in responding to the widely dispersed and unprecedented impacts of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria (simultaneously with other major disasters such as western wildfires)
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