The 2nd Annual Best Practices in Higher Ed Emergency Management Conference on March 11-13, 2014, at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus. We are excited to bring another round of innovative and best practice focused presentations to the Higher Ed community. This year’s conference will focus again on the sharing of campus specific tools and applications of best practices, lessons learned, and innovative solutions that apply d...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Does your organization have a plan for an active shooter event or hostage taking? Given today’s ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization’s incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity The National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastructure Protection within the...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Does your organization have a plan for an active shooter event or hostage taking? Given today’s ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization’s incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity Iona College and the National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastructure Prote...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Does your organization have a plan for an active shooter event or hostage taking? As recent events at the Columbia Mall in Maryland have demonstrated, given today’s ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization’s incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity The National Protection and...

Since 2010, the world has endured some of the largest and most damaging natural disasters than have been seen in the previous one hundred years. The impacts are global and virtually every government organization, commercial enterprise, and individual has in some way been affected. Government agencies focused on emergency and risk management need a coordinated toolset and location-based intelligence that can be shared across a non-GIS user bas...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Does your organization have a plan for an active shooter event or hostage taking? Given today’s ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization’s incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity Rose State College, the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security, and the National Protection and Pr...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Does your organization have a plan for an active shooter event or hostage taking? Given today’s ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization’s incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity The Branson Convention Center, the City of Branson Police and the National Protection and Progra...

THIS IS NOT A TACTICAL TRAINING COURSE Does your organization have a plan for an active shooter event or hostage taking? Given today’s ever-changing threat environment, preparing for and training employees to cope with workplace violence should be a key piece of an organization’s incident response planning. A Unique Training Opportunity The Centene Corporation, the St. Louis Fusion Center, and the National Protection and Programs D...

2014 Dams Sector Information Sharing Drill The Dams Sector Information Sharing Drill is an annually recurring learning environment for sector stakeholders to identify and assess information sharing issues and concerns that could potentially affect the sector during heightened threat conditions. The drill provides an opportunity to evaluate capabilities to receive and share cyber and physical security-related information in response to increasi...

You are invited to take part in the After Action Meeting (AAM) & webinar/teleconference to discuss the Food, Agriculture, and Veterinary Response Exercise (FAVRE) workshop conducted on December 11-12, 2013. Those who participated in the workshop are encouraged to participate in the meeting, whether in-person or virtually to address the strengths and areas for improvement and to help develop an Improvement Plan to address the outcomes from...