Insights
Perspectives on resilience
Essays on preparedness, recovery, public-private convergence, and the homeland-security enterprise, written from inside the work.
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Act Now or Pay Later: The Looming Social Security Crisis and America's Debt Reckoning
Congress is playing a dangerous game of chicken with Social Security, and the clock is ticking. In less than a decade, the program's trust fund is set to reach insolvency, triggering automatic benefit cuts for millions of Americans by 2033…
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Osama bin Laden - May 1, 2011
Late last night when I was writing this post, the news of Osama bin Laden came over the TV. I decided to wait until this morning to make this post. It is…
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PPD-8:PKEMRA and 6 U.S. Code
Now that PPD-8 is established as Policy it is a good opportunity to go back and look at the law and what has been required for the past 5 years since…
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PPD-8 and Post Katrina Act of 2006 (PKEMRA)
Now that the new Preparedness Policy Directive PPD-8 is in place, it would be useful to test what elements of the PPD-8 are codified in PKEMRA. The PPD…
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FEMA Strategic Plan 2011-2014 and PPD-8
Last month I wrote about the compelling vision painted by FEMA's Administrator. I was wondering how the vision would be implemented to sustain this bold…
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National Capital Region (NCR) Flashback - 2003
A flashback to a 2003 National Capital Region UASI event reaffirming the eight collaboration commitments the NCR jurisdictions first made in 2001.
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Private Sector Leadership - Designing Security into the Built Environment
I met Barabara Nadel a well known Architect at the New Stock Exchange event sponsored by TISP and DRII on March 21st. Meeting her reinforced my believe;…
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Applied Disaster Resilience: Private-Public Convergence
Last week was a whirlwind of activity from New York City to Washington, DC. The Infrastructure Security Partnership TISP , the Disaster Recovery Institute…
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Craig Fugate Paints a Compelling Vision at HSDECA
This was a busy week. Let me start by referring you to my website to see the Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism MIPT 2010 Annual Report.…
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Planning, Design and Construction Professionals Focus on Resilience
The key to long term Resilience is the linkage of the Public Safety and Design and Construction communities. I was delighted to attend an event this week…
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National Security Professional Development - The Power of People
Post Katrina, Executive Order 13434, National Security Professional Development of May 17, 2007 envisioned a major national effort to build the human…
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The Road Ahead for Resilience - Personal and Private Initiative
I attended The Infrastructure Security Partnership's TISP workshop last Friday at the Army-Navy Club in Washington, DC. It featured short briefings by…
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Putting the Horse before the Cart; Building on Private Sector Resilience
Last week, I started discussing the notion of practical approaches to building on private sector capabilities. An appropriate analogy for the culture…
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Private Sector Language - Owner/Operators
There is a growing recognition that government needs the active involvement of private sector owner/operators to create a resilient national…
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Convergence of Private Sector-Public Sector Preparedness
I must apologize for not posting for 4 months without checking in. I was distracted with a local community project that is now completed. I have continued…
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Managing the White Space in Homeland Security and Incident Management
I decided to take a break for a few weeks to reflect on the breathtaking activities that have transpired over the past 4-6 weeks. I had been focused on…
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Light Weight Sustainable Networks - Key to Regional Collaboration
As you may know, when I was the Maryland Homeland Security Director, I became convinced that the key to Regional collaboration was lightweight sustainable…
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Maturing the Enterprise-|Acquisition Career Development
You may want to keep your eye out for the BUR. For those of you who are not Washington insiders, it is not associated with a saddle, but is the Bottoms Up…
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Functional Exercises - Lower Cost Options
A recent Washington Post article on the National Exercise Program prompts a reflection on lower-cost functional exercises for executive decision-making.
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Maturing the Homeland Security Enterprise-Federally Funded Research and Development Centers(FFRDC)
The QHSR lays out an ambitious agenda to mature and strengthen the homeland security enterprise. In order to accomplish this agenda, DHS will will need to…
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Maturing the Homeland Security Enterprise through Regional Preparedness
The QHSR has identified Fostering Unity of Effort as one of the 4 strategic aims to mature the enterprise. The seven objectives to support this aim are…
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TISP Sends Resilience Recommendation to White House
The Infrastructure Security Partnership TISP developed seven resilience recommendations for a white paper it submitted to the White House last month. TISP…
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Systems Engineering and the Homeland Security Enterprise
The Quadrennial Homeland Security Review QHSR identified 4 strategic aims and 18 objectives that support the goal of Maturing and Strengthening The…
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QHSR and the National Homeland Security Enterprise
Rich Cooper from Catalyst Partners wrote a very interesting post about the recent National Emergency Management Association NEMA mid year meeting that I…
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New Homeland Security Strategic Framework - A Reason for Optimism
The February 2010 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) offers a real opportunity to move the national homeland-security enterprise to another level.
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National Disaster Recovery Framework
The draft National Disaster Recovery Framework has been released for public comment last week. The three links below can take you to the FEMA…
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Resilience, Protection, Mitigation, and Engineers
Last May, I gave a lecture at the Heritage Foundation about Unfinished Business at FEMA .…
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Creating a Roadmap for ASCE National Infrastructure Guiding Principles
I wrote a few weeks ago about the recently developed National Infrastructure Guiding Principles by the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE.…
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National Preparedness System: PNSR studies pathway to the future
The Project on National Security Reform PNSR has published a new report that outlines the root cause problems with improving National Preparedness and…
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Community of Professionals and the Long War
The recent failed bombing of Northwest Flight 253 highlights an emerging reality that was documented in the book by James Carafano and Paul Rosenweig ,…
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Career Development and the Future of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
I recently wrote about the emerging Community of Professionals for Homeland Security and Emergency Management in Domestic Preparedness Journal. The…
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Guiding Principles for the Nation's Infrastructure
The Infrastructure Security Partnership TISP is holding their Annual Infrastructure and Regional Resilience 2009 Conference on December 9th and 10 at the…
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Disaster Recovery and National Resilience
This is the first posting for a weekly blog that discusses current issues that I am encountering in my work around the country. I plan to keep it short…
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