The Center of Excellence Homeland Security’s Director, Mike Campbell, recently gave a presentation on Campus Safety. The presentation in its entirety has been published by BBCC. You can view the presentations here:
The Center of Excellence Homeland Security has published the following presentation on Vulnerability and Threat Assessments.
Download the presentation here: Vulnerability and Threat Assessments
The Center of Excellence Homeland Security has published the following presentation on Emergency Preparedness & The Community and Technical College System.
Emergency Preparedness & The Community and Technical College System
The Center of Excellence Homeland Security has published the following presentation on Classroom Preparedness:
From FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency):
Monday, May 18, 2009
Dear CERT Community,
The CERT National Program Office is pleased to announce that new “CERT in Action!” stories are posted on the CERT National website. The new stories feature CERTs who filled sandbags in response to local flooding, cleared snow from fire hydrants, removed debris due to an ice storm, and assisted with a car accident victim. Click on the following link to read the new stories: http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/.
We hope you enjoy the new “CERT in Action!” stories. If you know of others who would be interested in receiving CERT news and updates, please have them subscribe at the following website: http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/subscribe.shtm.
Sincerely,
CERT National Program Office
Community Preparedness Division
Federal Emergency Management Agency
“Business Ethics.” This session has been written by course develop, Dr. Greg Shaw, George Washington University.
Business Crisis and Continuity Management tab – at: http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu/bccm.asp
The full DHS FY 2010 budget request can be found at www.dhs.gov.
Excerpt:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano unveiled the Department’s $55.1 billion FY 2010 budget request today, focused around five major priorities—counterterrorism; border security; enforcement of immigration laws; disaster preparedness, response and recovery; and Department unification—designed to create a leaner, smarter, more effective agency.
“Our proposed budget strengthens current efforts that are vital to our nation’s security, bolsters our ability to respond to emerging and evolving threats, and enables DHS to embrace new responsibilities,” said Secretary Napolitano. “This budget represents a critical investment in the protection of the American people. It reflects the five priorities I have set for the Department, which will be achieved through strong partnerships, investments in technology and an emphasis on efficiency.”
In addition to enhancing each priority area, the proposed DHS budget furthers Secretary Napolitano’s major reform goals—government efficiency, transparency and cohesion - to bring about a new culture of responsibility and fiscal discipline at DHS. The FY 2010 budget request was based on alignment with the Department priorities, and programs were assessed based on effectiveness and risk.
Secretary Napolitano’s recently announced Efficiency Review initiative - intended to streamline operations and eliminate redundancy and waste - will help to ensure that the funds requested are used as effectively as possible. The Department will save more than $40,000 on this year’s budget roll-out from previous years by printing fewer copies of the budget materials, posting the information online and hosting stakeholder briefings at a government facility.
FY 2010 Budget Priorities:
Guarding Against Terrorism—Protecting the American people from terrorist attacks is the founding purpose of DHS and the Department’s highest priority. The proposed DHS budget expands efforts to battle terrorism, including funding for an additional 109 Bomb Appraisal Officers to help secure the nation’s airports and 15 additional Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams to detect explosives in public spaces and transportation networks; $400 million to protect critical infrastructure and cyber networks from attack; $94.5 million to detect agents of biological warfare; and resources to expand information-sharing partnerships with state and local law enforcement to mitigate threats.
Securing Our Borders—DHS is on the frontlines of preventing the smuggling of people, drugs, cash and weapons across our nation’s borders while facilitating international trade and travel. In March, the Department announced a new initiative to strengthen security on the Southwest border in order to disrupt the drug, cash and weapon smuggling that fuels cartel violence in Mexico. The budget request strengthens those efforts by adding technology, assets and manpower, including an additional five U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) cutters and two patrol planes, 44 Border Patrol agents, 65 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, 349 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, analysts and investigators, 68 pilots, and 20 marine personnel. It also includes $40 million for smart secur ity on the Northern border to expand and integrate surveillance systems.
Smart and Tough Enforcement of Immigration Laws—DHS welcomes new legal immigrants, protects against dangerous people entering the country, and pursues tough, effective enforcement against those who violate the nation’s immigration laws. The FY 2010 proposed budget contains $112 million to strengthen employment eligibility verification systems; designates $139 million to expedite the application process for new legal immigrants; allows for 80 new ICE Secure Communities personnel to target and crack down on criminal aliens; and $144.9 million to support the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which will both improve border security and facilitate trade and tourism.
Preparing for, Responding to, and Recovering from Disasters - The Department aids state and local first responders in all stages of a disaster from preparation and response to long term recovery. DHS’ budget request provides nearly $4 billion for state and local grant programs, emergency management performance grants and firefighter assistance grants and $150 million for pre-disaster hazard mitigation efforts designed to reduce injuries, loss of life and destruction of property.
Unifying and Maturing DHS - DHS is a young department with offices dispersed throughout the country and the National Capital Region. To operate as one agency with a single, unified security mission, the proposed budget contains critical funding to consolidate more than 35 Department offices to new headquarters facilities and $200 million for new information technology infrastructure to standardize acquisitions and streamline maintenance and support contracts across the Department.
Secretary Napolitano also laid out three cross cutting initiatives to bolster activities in each priority area - increasing cooperation with state and local law enforcement, international allies, the private sector, and other federal departments; expanding DHS’ science and technology portfolio; and maximizing efficiency in operations.
A pair of new studies say that more people than ever lie in harm’s way from earthquakes, droughts, floods and other disasters, largely because of a surge in urban populations in developing countries.
Smaller or poorer countries can be devastated by disasters that are relatively inconsequential in places shielded by size or wealth, said one of the reports, a United Nations study that is being released Sunday in Bahrain.
Read about it here: 2 Studies Tie Disaster Risk to Urban Growth
From GovernmentExecutive.com article on FEMA:
The Management Agency (FEMA) is accepting comments on two documents:
The proposed Supplement 4 (Supplement 4) to “Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Preparedness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants,” NUREG–0654/FEMA–REP–1/Rev. 1 (NUREG–0654), and the proposed Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program Manual (the REPP Manual). NUREG–0654 is a joint document issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and FEMA that contains the Evaluation Criteria against which FEMA and the NRC measure the emergency preparedness plans of Nuclear Power Plant owners and operators and the State, local, and Tribal jurisdictions in which they sit. The REPP Manual provides additional implementation guidance for State, local, and Tribal jurisdictions.
Supplement revises and provides additional offsite requirements for emergency preparedness programs at the Nation’s nuclear power plants, as well as requirements for backup means for alert and notification, and coordination between licensees and offsite responders. The REPP Manual consolidates all of the FEMA Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program’s many operative guidance and policy documents into one location, and provides additional guidance on the DATES: Comments must be received on or before August 3, 2009.
Read the PDF here: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-10951.pdf
Read more about it in this article: http://www.hstoday.us/content/view/8558/128/
Received for review revised drafts of the following “final” course sessions developed by Dr. David McEntire, University of North Texas, as his contribution to this course:
Session 3: Comprehensive Emergency Management
Session 4: Progressive Emergency Management
Session 9: Flexibility in Emergency Management
Session 10: Professionalism in Emergency Management
These sessions will be forwarded to EMI web staff for upload to the EM Hi-Ed Program web site – Free College Course Materials section – Courses Under Development subsection – Principles of Emergency Management Course to replace earlier drafts. These sessions should be accessible shortly at: College Course Development Project.
The United Nations today launched the first global report uncovering how disaster risk is intensively concentrated in a very small portion of the earth’s surface and unevenly distributed. Based on more than 30 years of disaster data, the report highlights three main risk drivers that will be magnified by climate change and proposes 20 recommendations to help make the world safer.
Read the report here: United Nations Global Assessment Report
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