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• Engineer Update: Vol. 35 No. 7 (August 2011)

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  This monthly newsletter by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) highlights issues related to disasters and disaster engineering. This issue contains the following articles: "Recovery continues in Joplin"; "Jesus tells followers not to worry"; "USACE lock hosts terrorism exercise"; "Tornado trees recycled for mulch"; "Lost award returned to Joplin woman"; "Tornado recovery operations in Alabama"; "Stricken schools receive supplies"; "High-tech system vital in Missouri River flood response"; "Afghanistan districts seek volunteers"; "Water safety message goes NASCAR"; and "Largest civil works project nears completion".

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2011-08
• USACE Process for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Levee System Evaluation: Frequently Asked Questions

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  This document addresses frequently asked questions about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Process for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Questions addressed by the document are as follows: "1. What does Engineer Circular (EC) 1110-2-6067, 'USACE Process for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Levee System Evaluation, address?' [...] 2. What is a 'NFIP levee system evaluation'? [...] 3. What is the difference among levee evaluation, certification, inspection, and accreditation? [...] 4. Why is USACE using the term 'NFIP levee system evaluation' instead of 'levee certification'? Do these two terms mean the same thing? [...] 5. Does this EC apply to all 'levee certifications' submitted to FEMA? [...] 6. Will FEMA accept documentation from USACE using the term 'NFIP Levee System Evaluation' instead of 'levee certification'? [...] 7. If a private architect-engineer firm would like to use this USACE EC, does the term 'levee certification' or the word "certify" have to be in the documentation they submit to FEMA to comply with 44 CFR [Code of Federal Regulations] 65.10? [...] 8. Is FEMA planning to change how it uses the term 'levee certification' to match the USACE new term of 'NFIP levee system evaluation'? [...] 9. What happens to the draft Engineer Technical Letter (ETL) 1110-2-570 that USACE issued in September 2007 to address 'certification'? [...] 10. Does the EC contain 'new' guidance not presently contained in other published USACE documents? [...] 11. With this EC, is USACE changing its policy related to performing NFIP levee evaluations for local sponsors? [...] 12. How does the EC relate to FEMA's Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 65.10 (44 CFR 65.10), 'Mapping Areas Protected by Levee Systems'? [...] 13. What coordination with FEMA has taken place with this EC? [...] 14. Is there a plan to revise and update the EC in the near future as lessons learned from Katrina/New Orleans become more solidified, and as the technical methods advance both in the U.S. and Internationally? [...] 15. What happens to existing previous USACE 'certifications'? [...] 16. Who is the point of contact for the EC?"

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2010-09-03
• USACE Process for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Levee System Evaluation

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  "This document is applicable for all U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) riverine, lake, and coastal National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) levee system evaluations. The purpose is to provide a consolidated document that will guide USACE procedures for levee system evaluations in support of the NFIP as administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This Engineer Circular (EC) will supplement and clarify existing policy, procedural, and technical guidance and provide an overview of documentation requirements. Technical and procedural guidance in this EC are intended solely for use in USACE process for NFIP levee system evaluation of existing and new levee systems; it is not intended as design guidance."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2010-08-31
• [May 2010 Flood Event Cumberland River Basin] Appendix B - Lessons Learned

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  This document provides lessons learned from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers response to the Cumberland River Basin flood event in May 2010. The lessons learned primarily focus on emergency communication, emergency management, and water management.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2010-11-10?
• USACE Levee Safety Program

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  "In 2006, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) created its Levee Safety Program with the mission to assess the integrity and viability of levees and recommend courses of action to make sure that levee systems do not present unacceptable risks to the public, property, and environment. USACE subsequently launched a major effort to establish a levee safety organization, create the National Levee Database (NLD), develop a methodology for performing technical risk assessments of existing levee infrastructure, and review and revise current related policies and procedures associated with levees."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2010-12-28?
• Engineer Update (May 2011)

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  This monthly newsletter by the United States Army Corps of Engineers highlights issues related to disasters and disaster engineering.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2011-05
• Debris Management Emergency Operations

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  "In cases where the damage and debris are so extensive that it exceeds local and state capabilities, FEMA can assign the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a mission to provide debris management assistance in support of the National Response Framework."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
• Alabama/Mississippi Hurricane Workshop: Breakout Session - Debris Management [presentation]

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  This is a presentation from the breakout session on Debris Management at the Alabama/Mississippi Hurricane Workshop in July 2006. It gives an overview of debris management, as well as preparation, deployment, and tools. It also discusses debris management during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  Ansley, Bo

  2006-07-01?
• Engineer Update, September 2011

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  This monthly newsletter by the United States Army Corps of Engineers highlights issues related to disasters and disaster engineering. This issue contains the following articles: "USACE [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers] was only Army command with 9-11 missions"; "N.Y. District's worst day, finest hour"; "Pentagon survivors tell their stories"; "USACE boat operations on 9-11"; "Public affairs mission is untold 9-11 story"; "249th troops powered NYC financial district"; "Honoring the heroes of Flight 93"; and "Remembering the World Trade Center and 9-11".

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2011-09
• Guidelines for Landscape Planting and Vegetation Management at Levees, Floodwalls, Embankment Dams, and Appurtenant Structures

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  "This ETL [Engineering Technical Letter] provides guidelines to assure that landscape planting and vegetation management provide aesthetic and environmental benefits without compromising the reliability of levees, floodwalls, embankment dams, and appurtenant structures. It is important to note that all minimum guidelines presented herein are just that--minimums. The dimensions of the vegetation-free and root-free zones defined in this document provide the minimum acceptable buffer between vegetation and flood damage reduction structures. For each individual project, the design team must consider whether or not these minimums are adequate to the specific needs and conditions of the project."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2009-04-10?
• USACE Update Vol. 35 No. 6

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  This issue of Engineer Update published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) contains the following articles: "'We're Here for the Long Haul': USACE Responds to Missouri Tornadoes" by George Stringham; "USACE People Need Pride, Humility" by Gary Sexton; "Tornadoes Strike New England Region" by Ann Marie Harvie; "Nurse Saves Life in Joplin" by John Davies; "USACE Teams Deploy to Assist Alabama"; "Teams Help Reduce Worker Turnover"; "'Unprecedented Pretty Well Sums It Up'" by Tom Clarkson; and "Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory Celebrates 50th Anniversary" by Bryan Armbrust.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2011-07
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, Volume IX - General Appendices

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  "The IPET [Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force] Data Repository is a data management system for storing, delivering, and maintaining the authoritative datasets associated with this study. The Data Repository contains a comprehensive set of data and information about the conditions before and after Hurricane Katrina, a complete history of the hurricane protection projects' construction and maintenance, as well as the information and analytic results of this performance evaluation. The architecture of the Data Repository, described in the Data Collection and Management section of IPET Report 1, is comprised of three main components: an unstructured data component, a GIS [geographic information system] data component, and a large datasets component. An overall data manager integrates the data stored in the three components such that users may access all datasets from one central application without having to know which data is stored in which component. Following is a description of each component of the Repository."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2006-06-01
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, Volume VIII - Engineering and Operational Risk and Reliability Analysis

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  "The mission of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET) risk and reliability analysis was to examine the risks to life and property posed by the New Orleans hurricane protection system (HPS) that was in place prior to Katrina and by the system as it is expected to exist at the start of the next hurricane season (1 June 2006). The purpose of the analysis was to identify areas of the HPS that are relatively more vulnerable to flooding than others, and to identify the sources of that vulnerability. The studies also provide estimates of the frequency of flooding within each drainage basin. By examining the pre- and post-Katrina risks, the effectiveness of the repairs and improvements made to the HPS since Katrina can be evaluated. The risk analysis considered the expected performance of the various elements of the system and the consequences associated with that performance. This report outlines the procedures and methodologies used in the risk studies."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2006-06-01
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, Volume IV - the Storm

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  "This volume presents the regional hydrodynamic conditions created by Katrina (waves and water levels). Local high-resolution hydrodynamic waves and water levels at the levees and floodwalls, as well as hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces and loadings that the levees and floodwalls were subjected to during the storm, are also presented. In addition to maximum conditions, temporal variation of waves and water levels and loadings are of great interest, as are timing and phasing of different types of loadings and forces. All conditions were evaluated. A time line of inundation and notable project responses is presented, based on many eyewitness accounts and analyses of information and observations."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2006-06-01
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, Volume V - the Performance -- Levees and Floodwalls 1 June 200

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  "This report summarizes a comprehensive investigation of the performance of floodwalls and levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. In all, about 50 locations were studied, where breaches in the hurricane protection system occurred due to overtopping and erosion, or due to structural instability."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2006-06-01
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, Volume VI - the Performance - Interior Drainage and Pumping

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  "Volume VI addresses the performance of the pump stations and interior drainage system of the Hurricane Protection System. The Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET) questions addressed in this volume are listed below. Summary level answers to the questions are also provided with details provided in the remaining part of this volume."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2006-06-01
• Emergency Management: GIS Response & '05 Hurricane Season: An Overview

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  This briefing provides an overview of the efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Planning Response Team (PRT) during the 2005 hurricane season.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2007?
• Army Corps of Engineers (Civil Works) Assistance in Hurricane Betsy Relief and Rehabilitation

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  This document reports on the relief activities of the Army Corp of Engineers in the wake of Hurricane Betsy in 1965. It also discusses the Corps efforts during the evacuation, clean-up and rebuilding of New Orleans.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  1965?
• Miami-Dade Transportation Analysis (Draft Final Report)

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  This document examines the particular threats which officials in Miami-Dade County face when conducting evacuations during hurricane season. The final product of this analysis is updated evacuation clearance times, which will aid local emergency managers in planning for and executing future hurricane evacuations.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2003-09
• Security and Interdependency in a Public Cloud: A Game Theoretic Approach

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  "As cloud computing thrives, many organizations - both large and small - are joining a public cloud to take advantage of its multiple benefits. Especially public cloud based computing, is cost efficient, i.e., a cloud user can reduce spending on technology infrastructure and have easy access to their information without up-front or long-term commitment of resources. Despite those benefits, concern over cyber security is the main reason many large organizations with sensitive information such as the Department of Defense have been reluctant to join a public cloud. This is because different public cloud users share a common platform such as the hypervisor. An attacker can compromise a virtual machine (VM) to launch an attack on the hypervisor which, if compromised, can instantly yield the compromising of all the VMs running on top of that hypervisor. This work shows that there are multiple Nash equilibria of the public cloud security game. However, the players use a Nash equilibrium profile depending on the probability that the hypervisor is compromised given a successful attack on a user and the total expense required to invest in security. Finally, there is no Nash equilibrium in which all the users in a public cloud fully invest in security."

  United States. Army Research Office

  Kamhou, Charles A.; Kwiat, Luke; Kwiat, Kevin . . .

  2014-08-29
• Research Areas 5: Securing Untrusted Binaries with Acceptance Testing and Field Monitoring

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  "Today's Army relies on computing to effectively engage an increasingly sophisticated enemy. Using commercial off the shelf (COTS) software to build Army systems has many advantages: reduced development costs, leveraging of vendor resources and expertise, and greater functionality. Unfortunately, COTS software often includes untrusted components that may contain any variety of uncaught coding errors, intentionally planted time or logic bombs, trojan horses, backdoors, or other features which can cause security violations."

  United States. Army Research Office

  Davidson, Jack W. (Jack Winfred); Hiser, Jason D.

  2014-11-25
• Model-Based Compositional Design of Networked Control Systems

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  "The rapid advancement in digital technology over the past few decades has fueled the progress in computation and communication technologies. Enabled by this progress, complex engineered systems commonly referred to as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), resulting from the integration of computing, communications and control, and in direct interaction with the physical world, are becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives. Examples of these systems include process control, automotive systems, networked robotics, medical systems, electrical power grids and environmental monitoring systems among others. These real world CPS are increasingly being monitored and controlled by networked control systems (NCS) and are often employed in critical settings, therefore the assurance of properties such as stability, performance, safety and security are essential. As a result, the analysis and design of NCS architectures have recently gained increasing attention. This dissertation addresses several fundamental challenges in the modeling, design, analysis and evaluation of dependable networked control systems.First, a domain specific modeling language (DSML), Passive Networked Control Systems (PaNeCS), is presented. PaNeCS raises the level of abstraction of NCS design and allows automated analysis, code generation, system configuration, deployment, and testing. PaNeCS is based on passivity and ensures the 'correct-by-construction'design of NCS by enforcing passivity constraints on the components of the NCS as well as their interconnections. Simulation and experimental models generated from the tool are presented to demonstrate the robustness of NCS designs using the tool. Second, an integrated passivity-based adaptive sampling control (PBASC) architecture is presented. PBASC architecture addresses the challenges due to the limited network resources as well as the presence of network uncertainties. The underlying idea of PBASC architecture is to simultaneously allow the variability of sampling intervals as well as ensure stability. Hence, in the proposed framework, while passivity ensures the robustness of the NCS in the presence of uncertainties, adaptive sampling ensures the efficient utilization of network resources. Third, an integrated modeling and simulation tool, Networked Control Systems WindTunnel (NCSWT), based on High Level Architecture (HLA), is introduced. NCSWT integrates Matlab/Simulink and ns-2 for the accurate and efficient evaluation of NCS. Finally, an energy-based attack detection (E-BAD) approach for network control systems is presented. E-BAD is a contribution towards ensuring security of NCS. The underlying approach is based on using the fundamental notion of a system's energy balance in the detection of malicious attacks in NCS. The impact of various attack models on NCS are characterized providing conditions for passive as well as non-passive attacks. Simulation and experimental results are presented in order to evaluate the proposed detection mechanism."

  United States. Army Research Office

  Eyisi, Emeka P.

  2013-12
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (Volume VII - The Consequences)

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  "Metropolitan New Orleans, including the Louisiana Parishes of Orleans, St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, and St. Charles, lies primarily below sea level and is highly susceptible to flooding. Hurricane protection and flood control structures, collectively referred to here as 'the system', are in place to protect the population, property, communities, markets, institutions, and natural resources within its interior. In Volume VII the consequences of system performance during hurricane Katrina are examined. Where possible, consequences are tied to interior peak water surface elevation (WSE) measures in each of 27 sub-basins (Figure 1) during and after Katrina by quantitative or qualitative measures of diminished health, property, economic opportunity, and ecosystem quality, in loss of life, and in impacts to community infrastructure (social, cultural, and historical)."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2006-06-01
• Engineering and Design: Design and Construction of Levees

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  "The purpose of this manual is to present basic principles used in the design and construction of earth levees."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2000-04-30
• Maryland Hurricane Evacuation Study: Appendices A, B, and C

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  This document is a companion piece to the Maryland Hurricane Evacuation Study Technical Data Report. Appendix A covers inundation and evacuation maps, Appendix B contains a hazards analysis, and Appendix C contains a behavioral analysis. This document is intended to be used as guides for officials making hurricane evacuation decisions.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  1990-12
• Federal Response Plan Emergency Support Function #3: Public Works and Engineering

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  Emergency Support Function (ESF) #3 (Public Works and Engineering), part of the Federal Response Plan, provides technical, advice and evaluation, engineering services, contracting for construction management and, inspection, contracting for the emergency repair of water and wastewater treatment facilities, potable water and ice, emergency power, and real estate support to assist the State(s) in, meeting goals related to lifesaving and life-sustaining actions, damage mitigation, and recovery, activities following a major disaster or emergency.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  1999-04
• Statement of Colonel Norbert Doyle before the U.S. House of Representatives Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation For and Response To Hurricane Katrina

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  Statement provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting. Doyle discusses the Corps' pre-disaster planning, contracting during response operations, returning to normal operations, and the utilization of small and local businesses during recovery operations.

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2005-11-02
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, Volume I - Executive Summary and Overview

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  "This report is the result of an intense performance evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana hurricane protection system during Hurricane Katrina. It was conducted by the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, a distinguished group of government, academic, and private sector scientists and engineers who dedicated themselves solely to this task from shortly after Katrina struck through the start of the next hurricane season. Created by the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and peer reviewed literally on a weekly basis by an equally distinguished external review panel of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the group applied some of the most sophisticated capabilities available in civil engineering to understand what happened during Katrina and why. Their purpose was not just new knowledge, but application of that knowledge to the repair and reconstitution of protection in New Orleans as well as improvement to engineering practice and policies."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2006-06-01
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, Volume III - the Hurricane Protection System

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  "There are nine volumes in the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task force (IPET) performance evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana hurricane protection system report. Volume I provides an overview of the findings and lessons learned for the broad multidisciplinary evaluation performed. This volume, Volume III, of the report addresses the design criteria for the pre-Katrina hurricane protection system, any changes that have occurred during construction, and the operation and maintenance of the system after construction. The purpose of this volume is to synopsize and appropriately summarize this information and not to draw recommendations on the information. This volume is also intended to provide insight and direction on where additional information relating to the design, constructed, and maintained condition of the hurricane protection system can be found."

  United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

  2006-06-01
• Performance Evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System: Draft Final Report of the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force, Volume II - Geodetic Vertical and Water Level Datums

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  "The primary focus of this study was to identify a common vertical reference framework for the various IPET [Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force] physical models and high-resolution hydrodynamic models developed on this project. The common vertical reference framework chosen was the North American Vertical Datum of 1988--actually the 2004.65 adjustment to this datum (NAVD88 (2004.65)). This framework was adopted in order to relate flood control and hurricane protection system elevations to the local water surface reference datum used in hydrologic, hydraulic, flood inundation, and risk assessment models, e.g., local mean sea level, river low water reference planes, etc. Controlling elevations on floodwalls, levees, pump stations, and bridges through the SE Louisiana region were surveyed relative to this geodetic framework. This geodetic framework was intended to provide a consistent, or common, reference system for numerical and physical model studies, interior drainage models, and hydrodynamic models in the IPET study region. In addition to developing this basic framework, an evaluation was made of changes in flood/ hurricane protection resulting from elevation changes (i.e., net land subsidence and sea level rise) throughout the region. This entailed comparing flood/hurricane structure protection elevations (and reference datums) at the time of original design/construction with the current elevations ('pre-Katrina')."

  United States. Army. Chemical Corps

  2006-06-01