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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 has been working together since the creation of the AHC to share information on their statewide interoperability goals, strategies, policies and regulations, governance structures, data interoperability, sustainability of programs, major challenges, IT tools and systems, and lessons learned and best practices.

Update October 2007:

In May of 2007, Virginia hosted a regional workshop on communications interoperability.  This workshop was attended by 8 states and representatives from DHS, FEMA, and the FCC.   A white paper was developed by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab via a grant from DHS Science and Technology and was released in October 2007.