UFC 4-010-01
8 October 2003
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
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GENERAL. This document represents a significant commitment by DoD
to seek effective ways to minimize the likelihood of mass casualties from terrorist
attacks against DoD personnel in the buildings in which they work and live.
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Dynamic Threat Environment. Terrorism is real, evolving, and continues
to increase in frequency and lethality throughout the world. The unyielding, tenacious,
and patient nature of the terrorists targeting DoD interests forces us to closely examine
existing policies and practices for deterring, disrupting, and mitigating potential attacks.
Today, terrorist attacks can impact anyone, at any time, at any location, and can take
many forms. Deterrence against terrorist attacks begins with properly trained and
equipped DoD personnel employing effective procedures. While terrorists have many
tactics available to them, they frequently use explosive devices when they target large
numbers of DoD personnel. Most existing DoD buildings offer little protection from
terrorist attacks. By applying the Minimum Antiterrorism Standards for Buildings
described in this document, we become a lesser target of opportunity for terrorists.
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Responsibility. Protecting people on a DoD installation or site must start
with an understanding of the risk of a terrorist attack. Application of the standards
herein should be consistent with the perceived or identified risk. Everyone in DoD is
responsible for protecting our people and other resources.
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Individuals. Each DoD employee, contractor, or vendor is responsible for
minimizing opportunities for terrorists to threaten or target themselves, their co-workers,
and their families on DoD installations or sites.
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Installation Commanders. The installation commander must protect the
people on his/her installation, or site, by managing and mitigating the risk to those
people in the event of a terrorist attack. The installation commander is responsible for
applying the standards herein, consistent with the identified or perceived risk of DoD
people being hurt or killed.
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Service Secretaries and Agency Heads. The heads of DoD
Components shall ensure compliance and issue guidance to implement these
standards. That guidance will include direction to require the installation commander to
notify or seek approval from a major command or claimant or higher headquarters level
if a new construction or renovation project, or a leased facility, will not meet any one or
more of the standards. Heads of DoD Components will establish plans and procedures
to mitigate risks in such situations.
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and appropriate equipment fail to deter terrorist attacks, adherence to these standards
goes far in mitigating the possibility of mass casualties from terrorist attacks against
DoD personnel in the buildings in which they work and live. Although predicting the
specific threat to everyone is not possible, proper planning and integration of those
plans provides a solid foundation for preventing, and if necessary reacting, when
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