Governance
SIMNET & Related Materials
SIMNET Concept & Status
SIM Exercise video
SIM Exercise 2
DHS Today--Hurricane
"Tom", Dare County, NC
Exercise
Crusader
Homeland Security Standards Panel Overview
Upcoming Workshop on Credentialing
working agenda
Identity Management
NACo | Arlington County, Va. first to issue first responders ID cards
Dick Hardt video presentation on Identity 2.0
Upcoming Workshop on Credentialing
working agenda
But experts say the ID tests
won’t resolve problems in creating national standards
BY
Wade-Hahn Chan
Published on Sept. 3, 2007
Border states are piloting
secure identification programs so that their residents won’t be turned
away at borders when major national identification programs are launched.
However, some experts argue that the new programs are either hot air or a
signal that Homeland Security Department programs for securing the borders
and creating nationally standardized identification may be in jeopardy.
Arizona and Vermont recently announced that they would pilot new hybrid
driver’s licenses and identification cards as an alternative to using
passports when their residents cross the border...
see the rest
here.
Procurement & Distributions
Records
Emergency
Preparedness Initiative
Tagging, Tracking & Targeting
NPR ran an article on Sept. 11 that provides
insight into how electronic information tools for mapping and the Internet
are opening up powerful new options for response. See the brief to
the right, read the whole story
here or you can...
Health & Medical
General
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The Department of Homeland Security has released a draft
National Response Framework dated September 10, 2007. (Available from
the FEMA website at
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nrf/nrf-base.pdf.)
This National Response
Framework (Framework)
is a guide to how the nation conducts all-hazards incident response.
It is built upon
flexible, scalable and adaptable
coordinating structures to align key roles and responsibilities
across the nation. It is
intended to capture specific authorities and best practices for managing
incidents that range from the serious but purely local, to large-scale
terrorist attacks or catastrophic natural disasters.
This document explains the common discipline and structures that have
been exercised and matured at the local, State and national levels over
time. It captures key lessons learned from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
focusing particularly on how the Federal Government is organized to
support communities and States in catastrophic incidents. Most
importantly, it builds upon the
National Incident Management
System (NIMS), which provides a consistent
national template for managing incidents. (see the rest
here)
by
Dan
Charles
Morning Edition,
September 12, 2007 · In Nevada,
the search for missing aviator Steve Fossett goes on — and now thousands
of amateurs are joining in from their desks. They're using the Internet to
look at satellite photos of the part of Nevada where Fossett disappeared,
searching for traces of his missing airplane.
Steve Fossett had only been missing for a day or two
when his friend, billionaire Richard Branson, told reporters that he was
talking with Google, hoping that the company's storehouse of satellite
images might help locate the missing aviator...
Getting Help Online
Google passed those images along to Amazon.com, because Amazon has a
way to let thousands of people share the job of searching for Steve
Fossett.
(see
the rest of the story here)
States Feel Left Out Of Disaster Planning
A recent article in the Washington Post, "States
Feel Left Out Of Disaster Planning" highlighted what many feel and we
hope to help change. Click on the link to see the entire article.
There seems to be a disconnect between the intent and
actions of individuals and the organizations for which they work.
Many of the individuals working for the various levels of government
expend a great deal of effort to collaborate across the barriers within
and around government but often the outcome for the organizations they
represent is still seemingly one of insular, unilateral action.
Facilitating better conversation, information sharing
and relationships among the many necessary participants should help to
change both the perception and reality of cross-boundary cooperation for
improved emergency preparation, response and remediation.
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The Program Manager of the Information
Sharing Environment(ISE) In accordance with
section 1016 of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA),
the Information Sharing Environment will be the comprised of policies,
procedures, and technologies linking the resources (people, systems,
databases, and information) of Federal, State, local, and tribal entities
and the private sector to facilitate terrorism information sharing,
access, and collaboration. The ISE is being designed with one key goal in
mind: to combat terrorism more effectively.
ISE
Implementation Plan
ISE
Enterprise Architecture Framework
Program Employs Neighbors as First Responders to Assist Vulnerable
Populations in Disasters
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Government Technology, Aug
30, 2007, By Wayne Hanson |
Area Disaster Planning Gets More Muscle - washingtonpost.com
Officials Respond to Criticism of Evacuation Preparedness
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 7, 2007
Under pressure from the federal government, the District
and its suburbs are developing their most extensive evacuation plans since
the Cold War -- mapping escape routes, stockpiling bedding for shelters
and designating pickup points for people who don't have cars.
The area's preparations for major disasters were deemed
"not sufficient" last year in a nationwide study by the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The agency identified problems
in coordinating response, evacuation, medical care and the release of
information to the public during a terrorist attack or other emergency.
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