U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, D.C. 20472
For:
Fred Endrikat, US&R Branch Chief
Bill Brown, Operations Group Chair
From: Rick Klein, Logistics Work Group Chair
Date:
September 26, 2013
Re:
Water Operations Stand-Alone Equipment Cache Cost Gap Analysis
The following Water Operations Stand Alone Equipment Cache Cost Gap Analysis was
developed by an Adhoc Logistics Group under the direction of the Operations Group Chair and
the National US&R Program Office.
ISSUE STATEMENT
The Adhoc Logistics Group was instructed to review the cost and benefits of bringing the
Water Operations Equipment Cache to “stand-alone” status.
GENERAL BACKGROUND
 The Adhoc Logistics group was asked to research the estimated cost necessary to bring
the Water Operations Equipment Cache from its current state to a “stand-alone” status.
 Task Forces are currently required to access and pull items from their Type 1 cache in
order to fill out the items needed to deploy and support a 14 person stand alone water
operations team for a modular response. These additional items are typically a small cache
of hand tools, rope rescue items, EMS supplies and logistics support.
 A stand-alone Water Operations Equipment Cache would provide the ability to deploy a 14
Person Water Operations Team and a Type I Task Force simultaneously with the
appropriate tools and equipment.
 The additional cost of support vehicles was not reviewed; this cost estimate was limited to
cache items only. Sponsoring Agency or rental vehicles could be utilized.
 A 14 person compliment of FEMA frequency handheld portable radios and identified night
vision was also included in this analysis. This substantially increased the estimated cost.
 The Logistics Adhoc Group estimated the total cost for implementing a stand-alone water
rescue cache is $164,000 per Task Force ($78,000 without radios and night vision). The
funding impact to develop a stand-alone water operations equipment cache for all 28 task
forces would total $4.5 million ($2.2 million without radios and night vision).
Recommendation
 Review current Water Concept of Operations and projected response requirements to
determine whether task forces should develop and maintain a stand-alone water operations
equipment cache and identify the funding and a process for task forces to develop and
maintain this capability.
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PROGRAM IMPACTS / DOCUMENTATION CHANGES
 Revise the Water Concept of Operations to provide for the deployment of a 14 person
Water Operations Team.
 Identify additional funding to allow task forces to develop and maintain a Stand Alone
Water Operations Equipment Cache.
 Revise Cooperative Agreement Statement of Work Guidance
 Impact to task force vehicle requirements when simultaneously deploying a water
operations team and a Type I task force.
FINANCIAL IMPACT TO TASK FORCES
 Use of Cooperative Agreement funding to develop and maintain a Stand Alone Water
Operations Equipment Cache
 Personnel cost for the purchase of cache items, packaging and inventory, period
maintenance.
 Cost for any additional warehouse space that may be required
ALLIED WORK GROUP COORDINATION REQUIRED
 US&R Operations Group
 US&R Program Office
 US&R Grants Office
TIMETABLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION
 TBD
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