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• “The All Hazards Consortium represents a wonderful model for regional collaboration using an open architecture through a “groups of groups” dialog that allows each member to define what they each want to get done and then work collectively toward to common good.”

  Tom Lockwood
  Senior Advisor, Screening Coordination Office, DHS
  Former Director, National Capital Region, DHS

This group focuses on the protection of both the public and private sector infrastructures and critical resources within the region.  Working with the partners from DHS, the states have begun the process of looking at the region’s many CIP issues including areas of:

• Cyber
• Agriculture / water security
• Risk assessment and management
• Integration with intelligence efforts
• Regional interoperability strategies
• Private sector involvement in the process
• Lessons learned and best practices
• Potential regional collaboration efforts and projects

Update October 2007

On October 3-4, a regional workshop was conducted in Pennsylvania that brought together 12 states to discuss the CIP issue.  Over the course of two days, the states, along with DHS Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection, Colonel Bob Stephan, and his staff, discussed the above issues at great length.  A regional white paper is being developed by CNA, a new AHC partner, and will be provided for review by the regional government working group members.

A regional meeting of the CIP Working Group is scheduled to be held at the 2007 All Hazards Forum to review and provide comment on this document.  The white paper will contain a synopsis of the workshop along with the regional recommendations provided by each of the states.