Research Brief
Activities and Results from U.S. Coast Guard Project Evergreen V
Nov 30, 2022
This report summarizes the findings of Evergreen V, the most recent iteration of an ongoing scenario-based strategic foresight initiative that aims to help the U.S. Coast Guard identify issues, areas of opportunity, and potential challenges that it will likely face in the coming decades, so that senior leadership can better bridge the gap between near- and long-term planning and prepare the service to meet future demands.
Compilation of Activities and Summary of Results
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The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) carries out 11 different statutory missions and must address immediate requirements and future contingencies, both domestically and overseas. Various ongoing changes to, and new developments in, the physical, economic, social, political, and technological domains place additional stresses on service resources, as well as affect the composition of the service itself. Being ready for the spectrum of challenges that the future might bring requires leaders to be mindful of how change will affect USCG in both the near and long terms.
Evergreen was established in 2003 to address this overarching goal of readiness, and it includes Project Evergreen, a scenario-based strategic foresight planning process. Evergreen activities seek to identify emerging challenges and future trends that may alter the volume and types of demand for USCG missions, as well as its ability to perform them. These activities are based on a number of plausible future scenarios in which USCG's current plans, policies, and capabilities are stress-tested, and participants must determine the trade-offs that USCG needs to make today to be able to fulfill future demands. Evergreen thereby also supports effective decisionmaking under conditions of uncertainty.
Prior to Evergreen V, there was no deliberate effort to publicize or publish Evergreen products. Long-term institutional knowledge about Evergreen has been a historical challenge because active-duty personnel are typically reassigned every one to three years. This report documents Evergreen work and insights into the current and future needs of USCG that have emerged from the program to date.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
History of Evergreen
Chapter Three
Evergreen V: Year 1
Chapter Four
Evergreen V: Year 2
Chapter Five
Evergreen V: Year 3
Chapter Six
Evergreen V: Year 4
Chapter Seven
Conclusion
Appendix A
Future Scenarios and Workshop Design
Appendix B
HSOAC Report Summaries
Appendix C
HSOAC Perspectives
Appendix D
HSOAC Quick Looks
Appendix E
Game Method and Rulebook
Appendix F
U.S. Coast Guard Office of Emerging Policy Reports
This research was sponsored by the Coast Guard Office of Emerging Policy (DCO-X), and conducted within the Strategy, Policy and Operations Program of the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC).
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