What we should take from the Hawaii false missile alert
Hawaii false missile alert: “Nobody knew what to do” CBS News, in its reporting of…
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All Roads Lead to Civil Defense
All Roads Lead to Civil Defense: Survival is a local Issue. Civil defense is the…
A Sea Change in 2018 for Emergency Preparedness
“While each year the hurricane season comes to an end on November 30, the lessons…
Building a Culture of Preparedness is now the National Policy
Building a culture of preparedness in America President Trump released his National Security Strategy on…
Pre-Disaster Mitigation: It’s Time to Change the Culture
“We have to do more pre-disaster mitigation. Pre-disaster mitigation is the key to becoming…
FEMA Administrator Brock Long: Time to hit the reset button on resiliency
FEMA Administrator Brock Long has it right FEMA Administrator Brock Long testified before the House Appropriations…
Resilient and Prepared Communities: Emergency Managers and Citizens Finding Common Ground
We all want resilient and prepared communities This week, I was in touch with a…
Threats to the Electric Grid and the Sense of Congress
Bipartisan agreement about threats to the electric grid There has been little bipartisan agreement in…
GridEx: Is This Exercise Enough to Protect Critical Infrastructures?
GridEx bottom line upfront GridEx is a biennial exercise run by North American Electric Reliability…
What is Civil Defense and why don’t we have it?
Civil defense gradually morphed into emergency management. There are several good documents that give us…
Critical Infrastructure Protection – Two Decades of Failure
Why has so little critical infrastructure protection passed congress? I just don’t get it….
EMP Commission Reports, Testimony and Articles
The EMP Commission’s Untimely Demise The Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic…