Individual/Community Preparedness
Educate Citizens
Educate citizens on basic preparedness tips like packing a kit and having a home inventory and private documents secured.
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Preparedness Capabilities and Assessments
Get and App for that
Find a way to incorporate location technology in cell phones to allow agencies to send emergency messages. Is there an app for that?
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Preparedness Grant Programs and Incentives
Support Hiring of Local Emergency Management Personnel
SHSGP funds. Emergency Managers can only be hired through EMPG, but that is a much smaller grant that not all jurisdictions receive. In an All-Hazards context, emergency managers are far more important than intelligence analysts, so it would be a great... more »
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Technology Innovation
Create an easier way for for-profit technology companies to directly engage with DHS and FEMA to participate in early adoption and R&D efforts - this will foster greater investment, competition and ultimately better solutions in the marketplace.
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Preparedness Grant Programs and Incentives
Multi-Year Grant Funding and Cloud-based Solutions
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Prep, Employ, Modify and start again.
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Preparedness Capabilities and Assessments
Understanding Risk and Vulnerabilities is Critical
It seems so often that we fail to complete a comprehensive community all hazard risk assessment, that includes the nature, vulnerabilities, probability, consequences, and severity. Agencies complain that it is too hard; if they would leverage existing data and institutional knowledge, it is do-able. I have seen it provide an incredibly solid footing to begin designing and implementing mitigation strategies.
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LAW ENFORCEMENT INTELLEGENCE CARDS
I suggest we use our resource in combating terrorism in this country more efficiently. Let us take a look at the numbers. Our biggest membership in this country is our law enforcement personnel. The number surmounts even that of our military. Our law enforcement personnel are our greatest resource and our country’s front line of defense while our hero soldiers are battling terrorism... more »
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ICS For Weather Hazards
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Preparedness Policy and Guidance
Disability accessibility
I suggest you make sure all outreach is made accessible to people with disabilities such as availability in alt. formats, etc and that you work with disability organizations at the local and national levels in any educational outreach activities.
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Preparedness Capabilities and Assessments
Assessing Capability and Gap Analysis - Institutionalizing the Processes
Create a national system with a specific "non-share percentage" gap analysis grant managed by the state EM agency that measures gaps and holds all stakeholders accountable to filling those gaps. The program would start off by leveraging the updated 3-year HIRA data produced by the states and locals. Using a three year cycle, the state would hold X number of... more »
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Private Sector Representation
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Preparedness Policy and Guidance
Create an official Advisory Committee on Medical Countermeasures
The nation could benefit from something akin to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), but for medical countermeasures. Such a group (an advisory committee on medical countermeasures or “ACMC”) would follow the ACIP model in structure and methods.... more »
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Preparedness Policy and Guidance
Require interoperable radio policies
I work as a police/fire dispatcher for a local agency in Colorado. I'm a big fan of our radio system. The mutual aid channels are set up well and easy to understand. Working in the Denver metro area, I have the ability to communicate with any agency in the state.
The big problem is that we have the technology,... more »