In Preparation for the Perfect Storm

<p>Contingency contracting support for incident response operations requires on-demand specialized skills to provide mission-critical logistics support during an incident's emergency restoration and recovery phases. The support depends on the CCOs' responsiveness proactive acquisition planning the ability to identify local potential contractors advance partnering with interagency counterparts and site-specific preparations.Various options exist to make contingency contracting support planning for incident response operations more effective and efficient including assigning military and civilian CCOs to each Air Force installation; anointing one center of excellence for all CCO deployments; employing regional contingency contracting centers of excellence; and increasing the use of the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program.Among these options the regional contingency contracting center of excellence option most efficiently and effectively addresses the challenges of providing support to incident response operations. Under this option advance coordination with customers can enable acquisition planning activities including the creation of pre-declaration contracts. This teaming may also provide proactive solutions for mission-critical requirements in situations when CCOs do not accompany first-responders. This option also offers an efficient focus for identifying local vendors as well as correlating with local state and federal counterparts. Additionally the option focuses on regional issues associated with site-specific preparations by studying cultural impacts on business processes and identifying mission-essential contractors before incidents occur. Transforming Air Force contingency contracting readiness under this option substantiates reorganizing portions of the peacetime contracting support in order to sharpen CCOs' support.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>