Ensuring Preparedness: The Risk-Management Approach
Timothy Beres
March 28, 2007
It has been 10 years since the U.S. government started the first of what are now a large number of domestic-preparedness programs. In the interim, significant investments have been made
Communicating in a Crisis Is Different
Barbara Reynolds
March 28, 2007
Crises and catastrophes are and will continue to be among the eternal verities of human life.
Coping with them successfully requires effective communications – clear, concise, confident, and
comforting.
Public Safety and Pandemic Influenza - Planning for the Inevitable
Mary Beth Michos
March 21, 2007
It has been almost four years since personnel in the U.S. health care industry started talking about the need to be prepared for a pandemic influenza. Initially, it seemed, everyone
U.S. Department of Transportation: Using Highways During Evacuation Operations for Events with Advance Notice, Routes to Effective Evacuation Planning Primer Series
Domestic Preparedness
March 20, 2007
This primer is intended as a tool to aid local and State planners in maximizing the use of the highway network in the development and execution of evacuation plans for
Government Accountability Office (GAO) Nuclear Nonproliferation: Focusing on the Highest Priority Raddiological Sources Could Improve DOE's Efforts to Secure Sources in Foreign Countries
Domestic Preparedness
March 20, 2007
GAO is making several recommendations to DOE to better prioritize sites to be selected for security upgrades and strengthen program management practices, including developing a long-term sustainability plan to protect
Government Accountability Office (GAO) Maritime Security: Public Safety Consequences of a Terrorist Attack on a Tanker Carrying Liquefied Natural Gas Need Clarification
Domestic Preparedness
March 20, 2007
Concerns have been raised about whether LNG tankers could become terrorist targets, causing the LNG cargo to spill and catch on fire, and potentially explode. http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-07-316
Courtney B. Banks, Vice President, Homeland Security, Raytheon Company
Courtney B. Banks
March 14, 2007
In most fields, basic training is part of the learning process. Fire, law enforcement, the military, and other disciplines have training academies for building competencies and testing new recruits. An exception to these types of requirements is the field of emergency management. This new training academy will ensure that all emergency managers are trained to the same standards regardless how much boots-on-the-ground experience they bring with them.
Personnel Staffing in Times of Disaster
Joseph Cahill
March 14, 2007
Three modes of operation, two of which might strain the trained EMS personnel resources immediately available but would not overwhelm them. Preparing for the third mode, a sudden mass-casualty scenario, must be done carefully and thoughtfully.
Courtney B. Banks, Vice President, Homeland Security, Raytheon Company
John F. Morton
March 14, 2007
Her views on how Raytheon is leveraging its world-class technological capabilities to upgrade U.S.
homeland security. Specific comments on several systems now in production or in the RDT&E pipeline.
A Long Litany of Difficult Questions - But No Short and Easy Answers
James D. Hessman
March 14, 2007
DPJ’s editor in chief comments on several important homeland-defense and national-security issues
now in the news, and asks some relevant questions not usually addressed by the national media – and
either evaded or ignored by the members of Congress.