Article · 2013
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
Examines the decade-long debate over improving catastrophic planning across all levels of government. State and local jurisdictions must plan for higher-probability non-catastrophic incidents, while the federal government is seen as the resource of last resort for low-probability catastrophic events, making the case for pre-incident catastrophic planning so all parties can respond and recover quickly when a major incident occupies the national stage.
Article · 2012
Dennis R. Schrader · DomPrep Journal (Vol. 8, Issue 11)
Addresses the ongoing concern that the private sector neither understands nor accepts the concept of resilience, and asks whether it is a relevant strategy or simply the latest homeland-security fad. Argues that to be useful as a security outcome, resilience must become a defined, characterizable process.
Article · 2012
Dennis R. Schrader · DomPrep Journal (Vol. 8, Issue 7)
Since 9/11, attempts to adapt Department of Defense systems approaches to build the national Homeland Security Enterprise have not produced a cost-effective domestic enterprise. Proposes "lightweight networks" as an enabling alternative for regional collaboration and capability-building.
Article · 2011
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
Security is generally viewed as a cost to be minimized, Americans want security but will pay only so much and resist intrusion on their freedoms. As the accelerated post-9/11 grant funding faces reductions, this article examines strategies for prioritizing national-preparedness investments.
Article · 2011
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
The strategy of relying on the private-sector resilience of critical-infrastructure owners/operators as a disaster-recovery approach is valid and useful, but raises a chicken-or-egg problem of resilience versus reliance. Suggests one path forward: the public sector should learn the language of the private sector and adapt it.
Article · 2010
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
Following the February 2010 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) and the July 2010 DHS Bottom-Up Review (BUR), argues that improving the nation’s resilience capabilities depends on establishing stronger links between government public-safety agencies and the private-sector continuity and engineering communities.
Article · 2010
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
The homeland-security enterprise needs engineers who develop their careers to lead and take responsibility for resilience as a design parameter. Builds on the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) "Guiding Principles," which urge design professionals to exercise sound leadership, management, and stewardship in decision-making.
Conference Paper · 2010
Michael R. French, D.B.A. & Dennis R. Schrader, P.E. · American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) · The MITRE Corporation
This paper examines the roles federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) and university affiliated research centers (UARCs) might play in delivering systems engineering and analytical capabilities to state and local jurisdictions to improve the nation’s preparedness and address enterprise challenges for responding to and recovering from all-hazards incidents and emergencies.
Article · 2010
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
The once-vague term "resilience" is becoming an increasingly important component of national homeland-security strategy, with the White House creating a high-level group to explore it. This article examines how resilience moves from theory into practice for the domestic-preparedness community.
Article · 2009
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
Recovery from a catastrophic disaster relies on three key factors: the restoration of housing, infrastructure resilience, and business continuity. Argues that 2010 offers an opportunity to ratify the convergence of disaster recovery and infrastructure resilience as the step needed to build an effective national disaster-recovery framework.
Article · 2009
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
The emerging homeland-security/emergency-management "community of professionals" requires career-path planning tools and a comprehensive online body of knowledge. Argues that, contrary to public perception since DHS was established in 2003, homeland security is not a stand-alone discipline but rests on numerous foundational fields.
Article · 2009
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
Drawing on the May 2009 Heritage Foundation lecture "Unfinished Business at FEMA," makes the case that developing recovery doctrine should be a key FEMA priority. FEMA itself is not organized, resourced, or trained to lead recovery operations, leaving national recovery doctrine a major preparedness gap.
Article · 2009
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
Argues the federal government should provide direct systems-engineering and program-management assistance to state, local, and private-sector entities to help them build homeland-security capabilities, tapping two largely untapped resources: federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) and university affiliated research centers (UARCs).
Article · 2009
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
The Obama Administration’s first National Level Exercise (NLE-09), in July 2009, culminated twenty months of effort to improve the National Exercise Program. Examines the transition from the former TOPOFF series and what this Tier I exercise tested across catastrophic incidents, natural and terrorist alike.
Lecture · 2009
Dennis R. Schrader · The Heritage Foundation (Heritage Lecture No. 1125)
Delivered at The Heritage Foundation on May 14, 2009, this lecture frames the post–Cold War debate over domestic national-security priorities, roles, responsibilities, and resources, accelerated by recent terrorist and natural catastrophic incidents. The basic question is simple to state and hard to answer: how does the nation collaborate and allocate resources to effectively prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from catastrophic incidents?
Article · 2009
Dennis R. Schrader · Domestic Preparedness Journal (DomPrep)
Argues that the foundations of homeland security and emergency management rest on state and local resources that the federal government uses for national-security purposes, in effect leasing public-safety and public-health infrastructure from state, local, and private interests. Reviews the mixed results of the expanded post-9/11 grant approach and the need for more effective resourcing.
Report · 2006
Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, Dennis R. Schrader, Director · State of Maryland (Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.)
The Governor’s Annual Report on Homeland Security documents Maryland’s 2006 homeland-security accomplishments under Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. It was produced by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security (GOHS), created in July 2003 and led by Director Dennis R. Schrader, working through a Senior Policy Group spanning state public-safety, health, environment, transportation, and military agencies.
White Paper · 2006
Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, Dennis R. Schrader, Director · State of Maryland (Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.)
Issued November 1, 2006 by the State of Maryland under Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., this white paper defines the role of state government in securing Maryland’s cyber infrastructure as a component of the state’s broader homeland-security strategy. It frames critical-infrastructure resilience around four objectives: prevention planning, impact-of-loss analysis, cycle time to recovery, and understanding interdependencies.
Report · 2005
Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, Dennis R. Schrader, Director · State of Maryland (Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.)
The Governor’s Annual Report on Homeland Security documents Maryland’s 2005 accomplishments under Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., produced by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security (GOHS) under Director Dennis R. Schrader. As home to key federal installations, a major port, and critical highway and rail routes adjacent to the nation’s capital, Maryland built a comprehensive all-hazards homeland-security strategy.