2022 IAEM Annual Conference & EMEX Call For Speakers
Domestic Preparedness
January 18, 2022
The International Association of Emergency Managers has opened the call for Breakout Session Speakers for the 2022 IAEM Annual Conference and EMEX. The call will be open until February 18th, 2022.
2021 National Advisory Council Report to the FEMA Administrator
Domestic Preparedness
January 13, 2022
The NAC strives for equitable, coordinated, and outcome-driven solutions for the emergency management field. Through important discussions, the report compiled by this diverse body confronts the critical issues facing the field and represents the NAC’s final consensus on them.
Preparing the U.S. for an Outbreak of African Swine Fever
Gary Flory
January 12, 2022
Article Out Loud Responding to outbreaks of transboundary animal diseases is just one of the many challenges emergency planners and responders in rural localities face. Unfortunately, the infrequent nature of
Additional Information on Virtual Currencies Could Improve Federal Agency Efforts to Counter Human and Drug Trafficking
Domestic Preparedness
January 12, 2022
Virtual currency is increasingly used illicitly to facilitate human and drug trafficking, according to GAO’s review of agency documentation and data and interviews with officials. For example, the number of suspicious activity reports filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) that involve virtual currency and drug trafficking increased fivefold (from 252 to almost 1,432) from calendar year 2017 to 2020. However, in a sensitive version of this report, GAO found that data from selected federal agencies on virtual currency use for human and drug trafficking may not be consistently captured.
National Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Domestic Preparedness
January 12, 2022
January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month . Every year since 2010, the President has dedicated the month to raise awareness about human trafficking and to educate the public about how to identify and prevent this crime.
Preliminary Results Show that Agencies’ Implementation of FISMA Requirements Was Inconsistent
Domestic Preparedness
January 12, 2022
Based on GAO’s preliminary results, in fiscal year 2020, the effectiveness of federal agencies’ implementation of requirements set by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) varied.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Highlights Department’s Work to Combat Human Trafficking
Domestic Preparedness
January 5, 2022
“Human trafficking takes place on every mode of transportation in America – and we must change that,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
NHTSA Announces $260 Million in Grants for Highway Safety Programs Made Possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Domestic Preparedness
January 5, 2022
The Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced the release of nearly $260 million in highway safety grants. The funds will help address the traffic safety crisis on America’s roads by helping states and territories support a broad array of traffic safety priorities.
2021 National Preparedness Report
Domestic Preparedness
January 5, 2022
The 2021 National Preparedness Report summarizes progress made, and challenges that remain, in building and sustaining the capabilities needed to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats, hazards, and incidents that pose the greatest risk to the nation.
The First Open-Source Equitable Decision Intelligence Model
Eric Kant, Joel Thomas, Chauncia Willis, Sarah K. Miller, Nissim Titan, Tzofit Chen, Brian Kruzan, Camila Tapias and Alexa Squirini
January 5, 2022
When incidents are catastrophic and/or happen in compromised environments, complexity can increase
rapidly and dramatically, compromising response objectives and resulting in catastrophic failure. The
cost of these failures is measured in destruction and human lives, making even minimal reductions in
capabilities untenable. A rapidly changing environment requires that the modern emergency manager is
capable of quickly understanding community needs, including the needs of underserved populations and
traditionally underrepresented groups.