TISP Supporting Track of Sessions at 2013 SAME Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Joint Engineer Training Symposium Quad Cities Event Center in Davenport, Iowa October 16-18, 2013 Hosted by Rock Island and Illini Posts, Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Please plan to join us for this exciting event along the banks of the scenic Mississippi River in the Quad Cities that will include a strong technical program with fun and interesting events along the river! This year's theme is America's Rivers - Nature's Sustainable Resource. The technical program will be of interest to engineers, architects, contractors, planners, and environmental professionals, in addition to representatives from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard, and U.S. Air Force. The program will consist of five tracks - River Infrastructure/Environmental, Risk Management, Urban Infrastructure, Military Construction, and Infrastructure Resilience. Soon you'll be able to find all the information you'll need including the conference program, registration, lodging, travel, as well as exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities. Preliminary information is available via the link above. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The 2013 Critical Infrastructure Symposium April 15-16
Thayer Hotel, West Point, New York The 2013 TCIS Proceedings are now available! Click on the heading to the left "The 2013 Critical Infrastructure Symposium" to revisit the papers and presentations! The Symposium is growing to become the most important annual gathering in the Western Hemisphere for experts and institutions promoting critical infrastructure protection and resilience (CIP/R) programs and professional services. Its main goals are to: - Promote the exchange of ideas and experiences among students, educators, practitioners, and government officials developing CIP/R programs and professional services.
- Offer Full Spectrum Resilience training and professional development to educators and practitioners.
- Strengthen CIP/R professional, research, and educational networks and establishing a broader CIP/R community of practice.
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Regional Resilience Workshop Series This Workshop Series concluded with the Dallas event on April 23, 2013. TISP is working on a white paper which willl focus on mitigation strategies and include recomendations that came out of all of the workshops from this series. Look for this white paper in the Fall! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Regional Disaster Resilience Guide 2011 Edition The 2011 Regional Disaster Resilience (RDR) Guide for Developing an Action Plan (Guide) released in October is an updated and expanded version of the original guide published in June, 2006 by The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP). Like its predecessor, the updated guide is a beneficial and usable tool that enables practitioners and experts from government, the private sector, and other interested organizations to develop and operationalize an actionable strategy and ongoing process to collectively improve capabilities to withstand major events and disasters in today’s complex and interdependent world. The Guide is $25.00 per copy. *Please note that the Resiliency ToolKit will be available shortly. We are in the process of re-designing the TISP website and our current site does not have the capabilities or resources to support the online toolkit. We apologize for any inconvenience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Date | Description |
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05.21.13 | | 05.23.13 | Held each spring, the IAFC's Hazmat Conference provides the latest classroom, hands-on and field trip-based training on what's new in hazmat, covering all aspects of hazmat, including transportation, safety, WMD, gear, terrorism, mass decontamination, bio | 06.04.13 | |
| The Department of Defense announced today the release of the Strategy for Homeland Defense and Defense Support of Civil Authorities. This policy establishes DoD's priorities in the areas of homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities. Increasingly, over the last few years many regions across the nation have experienced major disasters and other events that have caused widespread disruption and destruction to communities costing billions of dollars, displacing thousands of individuals, Last month, the Emergency Preparedness Committee (EPC) of the Society of American Military Engineers, the secretariat organization responsible for TISP, and the State & Local Security and Emergency Management Agencies Committee (S+L SEMAC) of TISP merged Last week, the White House and Department of Homeland Security began its implementation of the biggest change to critical infrastructure and key resource protection since the release of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan when President Obama enac |
