Mission assurance ends at the fence line. Resilience can’t.
An installation runs on the civilian power, water, and communications it does not own — delivered by the city next to it. The Department of War (DoW) calls this mission dependency; we make it visible. FIR assesses city-base interdependency and helps develop resilient countermeasures, so the mission holds even when the surrounding community is under stress.
The base and the city succeed or fail together
Off-installation infrastructure failure is one of the quietest threats to readiness — and one of the most addressable, once the dependency is mapped.
Power, water, wastewater, fuel, medical surge capacity, and the workforce itself all cross the fence line. A 30-day regional grid-down event doesn’t respect the installation boundary — it degrades the base by degrading the community that supports it.
FIR treats the installation and its host community as a single unit of analysis: the city-base pair. We map the shared dependencies, identify where a civilian failure becomes a mission failure, and help build joint resilience plans that protect both at once.
shared lifelines
Assess the dependency. Develop the countermeasures.
Interdependency assessment
A structured analysis of the lifelines the installation draws from its host community, the single points of failure, and the duration the pair can sustain a Black Sky Event.
Resilient countermeasures
Joint resilience plans — on-site and community-side generation, water assurance, the city-base food pair — sequenced by mission impact and funding feasibility.
Funding alignment
Pathways through the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program and related authorities, so countermeasures are not just designed but actually resourced.
Built to fit how the Department already thinks
FIR’s defense work is designed to map cleanly onto existing mission-assurance requirements and funding authorities — not to add a parallel process.
Note on naming: “Department of War” (DoW) is the department’s authorized secondary title under the September 2025 executive order; “Department of Defense” (DoD) remains the statutory name pending congressional action. FIR uses DoW on first reference in line with current departmental usage.
Readiness inside the gate depends on resilience outside it.
If you’re responsible for an installation’s mission assurance, let’s map the city-base pair and find the countermeasures that move the needle first.