BEM Systems’ CEO, Mark Nardolillo, met with leadership of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Environmental Division on Friday, January 17th in Washington DC to discuss approaches to evaluate future risks from climate change on DoD infrastructure and for incorporating resiliency to mitigate such risks. Specifically, it highlighted the work BEM has performed in Alaska on behalf of the USAF for modeling the rates and mechanisms of coastal erosion on various Arctic radar installations due to rapidly changing climate conditions and the impacts to various natural and built infrastructure as well as contaminated sites over various time horizons. The USACE Alaska Division recently awarded a unique Environmental Sustainability Support SATOC to a JV of BEM Systems and Bethel Environmental Solutions, an ANC that is solely focused on climate change vulnerability analysis and resiliency planning. The USACE HQ was interested in whether such a contracting mechanism approach was needed more broadly given the growing prominence of climate change and its impact on critical infrastructure and operations and the specialized skills and experience to perform such work. BEM also recently completed an evaluation for deploying a real-time flood forecasting system (FfARS) at Wake Island Airfield in the western Pacific Ocean to provide more timely and accurate notification to military commanders responsible for deciding if and when to evacuate personnel and implement its storm mitigation plans. FfARS has been successfully deployed at various locations for NJ Transit in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
