Past Projects
Educational Resources
Silver Jackets Resources
- Budget Savings Analyses of Impacts of Landuse Change
- Nonstructural and Natural Storage Approaches after Levee Damaged
- Floodplain Management and Communication of Risk in the Iowa-Cedar Watershed Basin Report, September 2013
- Non-Structural Landuse Change Impacts on Structure Losses in Cedar River Communities Report, January 2016
- Iowa Bridge Sensor Demonstration Project Report, August 2016
About Silver Jackets
Silver Jackets - The Silver Jackets are collaborative state-led interagency teams, continuously working together to reduce flood risk at the state level. Through the Silver Jackets program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, additional federal, state and sometimes local and Tribal agencies provide a unified approach to addressing a state’s priorities. Often, no single agency has the complete solution, but each may have one or more pieces to contribute. The Silver Jackets team is the forum where all relevant agencies come together with the state to collaboratively plan and implement that interagency solution. Through partnerships, Silver Jackets optimizes the multi-agency utilization of federal resources by leveraging state/ local/ Tribal resources, including data/information, talent and funding, and preventing duplication of effort.
Silver Jackets Goals
The primary goals of the Silver Jackets program are:
- Facilitate strategic life-cycle flood risk reduction,
- Create or supplement a continuous mechanism to collaboratively solve state-prioritized issues and implement or recommend those solutions,
- Improve processes, identifying and resolving gaps and counteractive programs,
- Leverage and optimize resources,
- Improve and increase flood risk communication and present a unified interagency message, and
- Establish close relationships to facilitate integrated post-disaster recovery solutions.