Cold War Historic Resource Workshop: Updating Guidance for Management of Cold War-Era Properties on Military Installations, Air Force Cold War Studies

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The United States Air Force is the executive agent for the Department of Defense (DoD) Cold War Initiative. As executive agent for this initiative, the Air Force produced Interim Guidance: Treatment of Cold War Historic Properties for U.S. Air Force Installations (Interim Guidance) in 1993- As a first step in updating the Interim Guidance, the Air Force, through the SRI Foundation and Statistical Research, Inc., organized a workshop in February 2006 in Tucson, Arizona, to develop strategies for more efficient and consistent management of Air Force Cold War-era resources. The results of this workshop will lead to DoD-wide guidance that can be used by all services.
The goals of the workshop were to recommend revisions to existing guidance and develop procedures for collecting the baseline data necessary to determine how to proceed with management of Cold War resources. Workshop participants identified four major topics related to achieving these goals: Data collection/synthesis, Data repository/clearinghouse, Interim Guidance update, Executive-level briefing

Workshop participants divided into breakout groups, with each group identifying and creating products and tools to address these topics. It is critical to determine what is, and is not known about DoD Cold War resources. The DoD must identify its Cold War resources to more efficiently and proactively integrate cultural resources management with its military mission. The data collection/synthesis breakout group focused on compiling and analyzing available data on Cold War—era cultural resources as an important step in developing a programmatic approach to the effective management of these resources. The group recommended that the Air Force initiate a test data call to select installations, followed by a visit to the installation by an experienced field team to fill data gaps. This exercise will assess and improve the data collection procedures before initiating a DoD-wide data call.

Executive Summary * Chapter 1 - Introduction * Chapter 2 - Background * Summary of Air Force Cold War Studies * Cold War Task Area * The Interim Guidance * Summary * Chapter 3 - Workshop Objectives and Format * Chapter 4 - Workshop Results * Data Collection/Synthesis * Breakout Participants (Affiliation) * Introduction * Mission Statement * Action Plan * Implementation Strategy * Data Repository/Clearinghouse * Breakout Participants (Affiliation) * Introduction * Mission Statement * Action Plan * Implementation Strategy 1: Hard Copy Repository * Implementation Strategy 2: Electronic Repository * Interim Guidance Update * Breakout Participants (Affiliation) * Introduction * Mission Statement * Action Plan: Annotated Outline for New Guidance * Implementation Strategy * Executive-Level Briefing * Chapter 5 - Workshop Recommendations and Next Steps * Recommendations * Next Steps * Summary and Conclusions * References Cited * List of Acronyms * Appendix A - Interim Guidance: Treatment of Cold War Historic Properties for U.S. Air Force Installations (June 1993)