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• Expeditionary “Troop Labor” on select
projects
• Disaster Preparedness and Response Exercises
• Military-to-Military Counterpart Engagements as discussed in “Leader Engagement” section above
• Integrated Water Resource Management
and hydrological modeling tools from
USACE’s Institute for Water Resources
(IWR)
• Science and Technology Applications especially from USACE’s Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC);
e.g. technical assistance in locating additional sea stage gauges to increase sitespecific change estimations.
• GCC may find value in convening a “Task
Force Climate” committee that ensures broad
consideration of climate change-induced risks
across the joint warfighting functions and provides holistic inputs to DoD’s Climate Change
Adaptation Working Group. The J3 or a member
of the operations and planning staff should
co-chair this committee alongside the GCC’s
USAID Senior Development Advisor to ensure
unity of interagency effort and consideration
of both near and far-horizon planning considerations. The “Task Force Climate” should
include the CCMD’s engineer director, the Science & Technology advisor and other subject
matter experts.

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