Focus Areas, Partners, and Sponsors

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Our focus has been on all-hazards disasters and improving security and resilience for the following sectors:  energy, communications, water, and transportation systems, public health and healthcare, dams and levees, emergency services, disaster and manufacturing supply chains, and the commercial sector.  Specialty areas include infrastructure interdependencies impacts and risk analysis, regional cyber security and resilience, development of cross-sector information sharing capabilities,  economic recovery, and community health resilience  with particular focus on at-risk groups and pandemic resilience.

Past partners have included a wide range of local, state, and federal agencies, utilities, business associations, healthcare facilities, lifelines and other critical infrastructures, universities, and non-profit organizations.

Sponsors have included the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency, Office of Health Affairs, FEMA, and the Science and Technology Directorate), U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability; Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of the Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; homeland security/emergency management agencies of Iowa, Maryland, and Montana; California Department of Public Health; Pacific Northwest Economic Region, Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments, Association of Bay Area Governments, Chicago Manufacturing Center; Microsoft, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), First Solar, Fairfax Water, Port of San Diego, Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Oakridge National Laboratory; and the Canadian Federal Government.