
FINAL REPORT: Resilience 2013
Thad Allen
December 23, 2013
On 18 November 2013, DomPrep hosted an executive briefing at The National Press Club to present the
Resilience 2013 – Survey & Report. The survey outlined in this report is the second of a series that
Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered on with DomPrep Journal. The survey drills down into policy challenges
for federal programs and understanding impacts at the state and local levels, where the majority of the
resilience effort is realized.

FINAL REPORT: Food Defense
Amy Kircher
December 13, 2013
Food, like water and air, is essential to sustain life. As such, when someone deliberately taints that sustenance at any point in the food supply chain, the result can be devastating. This report addresses the topic of food defense, which is of great importance to the preparedness community, but it often is not widely understood, especially outside the food and agriculture sector.