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handle is hein.crs/goveadv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional *.Research Service informing the qeislative debate since 1914___________________ Military Installation Resilience: What Does It Mean? January 6, 2021 A misunderstanding that sometimes occurs when discussing military installations and resilience is the distinction between the Department of Defense's (DOD's) general responsibilities to ensure military installations are resilient and its statutory responsibility to provide military installation resilience. This latter term is defined under 10 U.S.C. @101(e)(8) as the capability of a military installation to avoid, prepare for, minimize the effect of, adapt to, and recover from extreme weather events, or from anticipated or unanticipated changes in environmental conditions, that do, or have the potential to, adversely affect the military installation or essential transportation, logistical, or other necessary resources outside of the military installation that are necessary in order to maintain, improve, or rapidly reestablish installation mission assurance and mission-essential functions. (Emphasis added) The statutory definition focuses exclusively on those environmental threats that can impact military installations. At the same time, DOD generally takes a more comprehensive approach to ensuring military installations are resilient. This difference in connotation can result in misconceptions of certain resilience- related statutory requirements for military installations. What Is Resilience? The term resilience can have multiple meanings and be applied to individuals and populations, networks and ecosystems, materials and structures, and other objects and human constructs. How someone understands resilience is often tied to the context in which it is applied, and the object of what is, or is to be, resilient (e.g., a person, a building). One definition for resilience asserts it's the quality or fact of being able to recover quickly or easily from, or resist being affected by, a misfortune, shock, illness, etc. This largely figurative definition of resilience highlights the importance of clarifying the term's use within an organization or group, particularly where matters of policy and action are expected. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11566 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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