Homeland Security Regional Programs

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Homeland SecurityRegional Programs

• Alan Jaeger
• 8 October 2009

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Sponsor and Funding

• Sponsor
• Funding
• Mechanism

Partnership with various State, Local, private
and special Districts in their research,
development and execution of Homeland Security
programs. Sponsors include City of LA,
InfraGard Member Alliance, Oxnard Harbor
District, DARPA, Perceptronics Solutions, Aptima
Inc., Hawaiya Tech, Bradbury Institute Partner
funded through homeland Security Grants, General
Operating Funds, Training and Educational funding
Program dependant labor, travel and material
All funding from non Department of Defense
partners is done via a Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement (CRADA)
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Goals and Objectives

• Purpose
• Interagency Coordination including
• Programs

• Research regional solutions to interagency
  communication, response, preparedness and
  security to an all hazards or asymmetric threat
• Police / Fire / EMS / Emergency Management
• Federal /Department of Defense / Homeland
  Security
• Private / Non-Profit
• Community / Education
• INFRAGARD Member Alliance
• Coastal Trident Port Security Exercise
• Path of Danger 2009
• Cooperative Assistance and Team Optimization
  System
• Regional Homeland Security Center
• Standardized First Response Sequence
• Oil Platform Security and Response Exercise
• Port Security Initiatives (Classified)

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INFRAGARD

• School Terrorism Awareness and Response Exercise
  (STAR09)
• 3rd iteration of a multi-year program with
  INFRAGARD
• Designed and developed an exercise that explored
  the consequences of a terrorist incident on a
  school campus from the perspective of emergency
  response agencies, the private sector, and the
  educational community
• Increased the overall readiness of those agencies
  and organizations charged with responding to and
  recovering from a terrorist attack on an
  educational facility

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Coastal Trident Series

• Coastal Trident Port Security Program
• 2nd phase of a multi-year program with Oxnard
  Harbor District
• Designed and delivered Emergency Operations
  Center (EOC) and Port Security exercise and
  training program designed to increase the
  proficiently of Port Operators, Emergency
  Managers, Port Security and Operations in a
  simulated multi-agency response.
• Built on previous 2 years of port security
  exercises
• Fulfilled the Annual Port Security Exercise per
  US Coast Guard Requirements
• Prepared educational foundation for FY10 full
  scale exercise (18-19 Nov 2009)

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Path of Danger 09

• Mass Evacuation Tabletop Exercise and Workshop
• Collaborative effort with City of LA and Los
  Angeles County Operational Area
• Developed scenario for a Multi-Agency /
  Multi-Jurisdictional Tabletop Exercise designed
  to review the applicability of a regional mass
  evacuation plan and template to address issues
  such as
• Communication
• Mass Care
• Emergency Public Information and Warning
• Critical Resource Logistics and Distribution
• Addressed complex issues of large scale
  regional evacuations
• Fostered regional catastrophic planning efforts
  and synchronization of plans

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CARTOS

• Collaborative Assistance Rapid Team Optimization
  System
• Collaborative Defense Advanced Research Projects
  Agency program with Aptima Inc. and Perceptronics
  Inc.
• Joint research into optimizing team performance
  in mission-critical environments
• Assist program in transitioning technology from a
  lab prototype into a fieldable unit through an
  iterative process to evaluate the system in a
  real-world environment against requirements of
  intended users

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Regional Homeland Security Center

• Pacific Regional Homeland Security Center
• Collaborative effort with Hawaiya Technologies
  Inc.
• Collaborative effort to develop requirements,
  design, planning, preparation and analysis of a
  Regional Homeland Security Center
• Review existing capabilities and programs
• Provide coordination of regional research and
  development activities in the area of disaster
  management
• Coordinate product requirements of Federal, State
  and Local stakeholders
• Assist in the development of a metric based
  method of conducting organizational training
  needs assessment to address operational
  requirements
• Evaluate current and proposed tools, systems and
  hardware for regional capabilities

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Standardized First Response Sequence

• Ready America
• Collaborative effort with Bradbury Institute
• Bradbury Institute
• Establishing a collaborative partnership to
  conduct research and development of standardized
  process and algorithms to be used in the
  identification and characterization of hazardous
  materials
• Chemical
• Biological
• Nuclear and Radiological
• Implement a requirements driven and metric-based
  training, education and evaluation program for
  operational response agencies
• Develop DHS approved training and exercise
  program(s)

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OPLEX Series

• Oil Platform Security and Response Exercise
• Congressionally Funded initiative
• Designed and implemented a multi-year initiative
  to increase the awareness of local, state and
  federal agencies regarding the vulnerability of
  oil and gas platforms off the coast of Southern
  California
• 2007 - Requirements analysis roundtable
• 2008 - Tabletop exercise
• 2009 - Platform orientation
• Increased the ability to successfully respond to
  a criminal or terrorist act by providing an
  expanded understanding of threats,
  vulnerabilities and issues related to
• Law Enforcement
• Fire / Spill / Rescue
• Intelligence / Security
• EM / Port Operations

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Port Security Initiatives

• Port Security Initiatives (Classified)
• Multi-agency collaboration with various DOD
  entities and Port Districts
• Date 2009
• Exploring innovative techniques and systems to
  expand security, response and prevention of port
  incidents

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Summary of Accomplishments

• Increased multi-agency preparedness and response
  capabilities in a complex, real-life,
  multi-jurisdictional environment
• Interagency Communication
• Interagency Training
• Interagency Preparedness
• Expanded beyond basic / core level training
  capabilities to assess capabilities in a metric
  based exercise
• Application of formal education / training
• Identified areas of improvement from a systems
  level perspective
• Nodal approach to response
• Breakdown at the interfaces
• Explored boundary between civil and military
  support to all-hazard or asymmetric threats

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Results

• Expanded Homeland Security concepts to a
  regional, multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional
  audience
• Oil Platform Security and Response Exercise
• Regional Homeland Security Center
• Focused efforts on interagency coordination,
  communication and collaboration
• Coastal Trident
• School Terrorism Awareness and Response
• Developed real-life scenarios to exercise
  response agencies in complex environments
• Path of Danger
• Facilitated technology and process improvements,
  application and fielding
• CARTOS
• Standardized First Response Sequence
• Port Security Initiatives

Increased regional homeland security capability
through interagency communication, response,
preparedness and education