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- An All-Hazard Approach to Emergency Incident Response
- "Information sharing and inter-agency coordination is clearly needed to facilitate a successful emergency incident response. Yet many public and private organizations lack the comprehensive emergency response plans that define the roles and responsibilities of trained personnel responding to an unexpected incident, and describe how to work "side-by-side" with responders from...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Emergency Management Preparedness Standards: Overview and Options for Congress
- The report issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States identifies emergency response gaps evident after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The report includes three recommendations that focus on emergency response standards: the adoption and use of emergency response standards for incident command; mutual aid...
- White papers 2005-02-04
- Conceptual Model of Emergency Management in the 21st Century
- While there are numerous emergency response plans in existence, there is no universally accepted model for integrated incident response involving all levels and players. Evidence Based Research, Inc. EBR has been tasked with developing a conceptual model at the state and local levels, including attributes and behaviors of first responders...
- White papers 2005-03-16
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- A Deloitte & Touche and CPM Global Assurance survey of business continuity professionals found that 50% of respondents have formal crisis management and emergency response plans, up from only 30% five years ago
- A Deloitte & Touche and CPM Global Assurance survey of business continuity professionals found that 50% of respondents have formal crisis management and emergency response plans, up from only 30% five years ago. While the results are encouraging, it is surprising that given recent natural disasters, computer security breaches and...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- The Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to Support Homeland Security: Recommendations for Emergency Management and Bioterrorism Response in Nebraska
- Emergency management combines planning, preparation, and the optimum resources to mitigate and respond to an event. Good emergency management requires information that is accurate, current, timely, and quickly analyzed. This article shows how GIS technology provides the tools for displaying and analyzing spatial data in order to answer questions based...
- White papers 2002-11-09
- Virginia's Arlington County Deploys Proxim Wireless Network to Support Emergency Management and Event Response Teams
- Proxim Wireless Corporation, a global pioneer of end-to-end solutions in Wi-Fi mesh, WiMAX, WLAN, and wireless backhaul and wholly owned subsidiary of Terabeam, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRBM), today announced that Arlington County, Virginia, has deployed Proxim's Tsunami MP.11 5054R and 2454R products in special mobile command vehicles and at the county's...
- Research articles 2006-12-12
- FEMA advances geospatial support for catastrophic events.(Emergency Planning)(Federal Emergency Management Agency)
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA Response Division developed a pilot project to build a Geospatial Support Task Force GSTF to provide a standardized and effective level of geospatial support to meet the immediate response requirements of catastrophic/no-notice events during the next year. ...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- FEMA.(Federal Emergency Management Agency contracts)(Brief Article)
- FEMA has hired IEM, a national emergency management and homeland security corporation based in Baton Rouge, La., to study the federal, state, local, and military response to Hurricane Katrina. IEM will develop a comprehensive response and recovery timeline that documents agency and organization activities at all...
- Research articles 2005-12-06
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to award contracts for turnkey base camp support services to support disaster and emergency response and recovery efforts.(Procurement Watch)
- The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to award contracts for turnkey base camp support services to support disaster and emergency response and recovery efforts. This is a small business set-aside. The NAICS code ... The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to award contracts for turnkey...
- Research articles 2006-03-24
- FEMA back in charge of emergency response under new plan.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)(Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act)
- Lawmakers and state and local officials welcomed a new federal plan outlining coordinated intergovernmental response to emergencies with the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA at the helm as a good first step toward correcting the problems exposed by the federal response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005....
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- EPA plans a solicitation for management and analytical support for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.(Procurement Watch)
- EPA plans a solicitation for management and analytical support for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. This is a small business set-aside. The ... EPA plans a solicitation for management and analytical support for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. This is...
- Research articles 2006-09-29
- A Simple Step Toward an International System Model in Emergency Management
- Emergency management is considered a complex and difficult process. In truth, it is a simple process engaged in by all individuals, groups and communities. Coordinated emergency response can also be a simple process, so long as communities capitalize on common ground. Emergency management is a continuous process by which all...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- ICMA and PERI Announce the Launch of the National Emergency Management Network; A Nationwide Network of Participating Communities for Local Emergency Response/Recovery Initiatives and Catastrophic Event Planning
- SAN ANTONIO -- ICMA's Annual Conference - On the 5th Anniversary of 09-11, and just one year after the most devastating natural disaster to affect our nation, Hurricane Katrina, ICMA, the premier local government leadership and management organization and the Public Entity Risk Institute PERI announce the formation and availability...
- Research articles 2006-09-11
- Rensselaer researchers developing model to predict organizational response to extreme events; FEMA, Coast Guard responses to Hurricane Katrina help researchers simulate how organizational characteristics improve or impede emergency management.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-3 November 2006-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Rensselaer researchers developing model to predict organizational response to extreme events; FEMA, Coast Guard responses to Hurricane Katrina help researchers simulate how organizational characteristics improve or impede emergency managementC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03112006 Troy,...
- Research articles 2006-11-03
- The Construction Industry And Emergency Management: Towards An Integrated Strategic Framework
- Although most emergency events are not entirely unexpected and therefore can, to varying degrees, be mitigated for, the construction industry in the UK does not appear to play a sufficiently integrated role in emergency management. This paper reports on research that is developing a knowledge database and decision support framework...
- White papers 2006-05-11
- Softscape Launches New Rapid Response Emergency Management System; Integrated Web-Based Platform Used by Government Agencies to Manage Both Citizens & Agency Workers to Ensure Disaster Victims Receive Rapid Assistance
- WAYLAND, Mass. -- Softscape, the industry pioneer in intelligent people management, today announced its new Softscape CaseOneTM for Rapid Response Emergency Management. Softscape's solution supports Homeland Security initiatives by enabling government agencies and first response service providers to track and manage vital information in order to prepare for and expedite...
- Research articles 2005-11-14
- U.S. agency forms new firm alarm interoperability group. (Insider).(Federal Emergency Management Agency)(Brief Article)
- Among many other weaknesses exposed in the wake of September 11th, the U.S. Homeland Security Department and emergency response personnel nationwide learned how the incompatibility of fire-related safety and response systems impeded rescue efforts. Among many other weaknesses exposed in the wake of September...
- Research articles 2002-12-01
- Cities worried about federal disaster response plan.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)(United States. Department of Homeland Security)
- State and local officials and some members of Congress greeted a Department of Homeland Security DHS draft update of the plan for coordinating disaster preparedness and response with skepticism and dismay last week at a heating before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development,...
- Research articles 2007-09-17
- The District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency. (Business News).
- The District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency has launched an aggressive program for community-based emergency management planning and training of all D.C. residents. Working with Kroll Inc., the agency plans to create 39 neighborhood-based emergency plans that target residents' needs before, during, and after natural disasters,...
- Research articles 2002-12-01
- 'Minimized' FEMA threatens response; restore status, warns former director.(Federal Emergency Management Agency )
- The changes made since 9/11 by the Bush administration to the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA "have minimized its capability greatly" and threaten the agency's ability to respond adequately to disasters, according to James Lee Witt, former FEMA director. Witt directed FEMA...
- Research articles 2004-04-20
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