Last year's tornado season saw the deadliest December on record with more than 90 deaths and massive devastation across eight states. These tornados didn't spare anything in their path, with many businesses severely impacted. To understand if your business is prepared for the challenges a tornado, cyclone, or other significant storm brings, you can conduct tabletop exercises. Tabletop exercises can be very effective because they help identify...

Join us as we learn about the roles and responsibilities of the Nlets Service Center. The Nlets Service Center is responsible for ensuring that the critical operations of Nlets are up and running in a timely fashion. We will also cover the most and least used message keys that are ran over the Nlets Network. Many of these message keys focus on data sharing between federal and international agencies. These initiatives were fought for after the...

Times are changing, and risks to organizations are becoming more dynamic. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s this: Risk has become increasingly complex and the way organizations respond to and manage risk must change in response. A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by OnSolve found that organizations are underprepared, overconfident and lack the technology necessary to respond to and manage risk complexity....

2021-Oregon Information Technology/Telecommunication Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) Hosted by Oregon’s State Resilience Officer, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Region 10 Please join us for the hybrid Oregon Information Technology / Telecommunications Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) Kick-Off Meeting which will be hosted both in person at the Ore...

New state and federal laws are poised to completely reshape the crisis response landscape. Is your department ready? Join us to learn how law enforcement responsibilities and expectations are shifting, what that means for your work going forward, and how you can help define success for your community. Learn how your department can prepare for the implementation of the new federal 988 law and what that law means for state and local crisis respo...

Suicide by cop, is an incident in which a subject intentionally engages in behaviors for the planned purpose of drawing first responders to the scene in order to confront them with violent action to precipitate a police shooting. While the psychological aspects of these incidents has been the topic of several research studies in the past several years, little has been done to address the tactical response aspects which should be considered. Th...

Fostering Resilient, All-of-Nation Pandemic Response - The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has challenged existing approaches to health resilience. An All-of-Nation approach is needed to ensure a resilient future for the complex, inter-dependent, and inter-disciplinary realities of the next pandemic. Operationalizing an All-of-Nation approach to pandemic resilience requires new perspectives and innovative thinking to challenge the status qu...

FOR FEDERAL USERS ONLY, FREE training on the Federal Personal Property Management Abandonment and Destruction process. Registration is required for this training - each participant will get their own unique entry URL, so you must register to be granted access to Zoom Government. Participants will receive one (1) Continuous Learning Point for attending. GSA Zoom Government may not be compatible with everyone's system. Please test your connectio...

Whether it’s personal protective equipment, security cameras or bottled water, GSA Disaster Preparedness and Security and Protection categories provide SL&T agencies with direct access to products, services and commercial experts. GSA’s Disaster Preparedness and Security Protection categories are the perfect place to obtain or address your organizations emergency and security needs.

The new infrastructure plan will put more than $1 Trillion in new money into transportation, broadband, and utilities. Transportation is a key area that will receive an infusion of dollars to repair, update, and build new infrastructure throughout the country. America will begin a building spree larger than what happened during the New Deal. The Department of Transportation (DOT) will be directing a large portion of those dollars through grant...