The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) is a state-sanctioned, 501c3 non-profit organization, formed in 2005, and focused on public/private sensitive information sharing and problem-solving in crisis management, business continuity, risk management, cyber security, research transition, homeland security, and supply chain resilience. The AHC focuses on improving public/private planning and operational information sharing to get businesses and communities back to business faster following disruptions and/or disasters.
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The SISE-net Operational Information Sharing Hub A single place for you to log in and find find operational and informational resources to help you in your disaster planning, response, and recovery efforts. Learn more... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 28, 2023 FEMA selects the Virginia Department of Emergency Management - Green Power Mobile Energy Storage System project with the All-Hazards Consortium, Dominion Energy Virginia to create a mobile energy storage system...... Learn more... |
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Critical Infrastructure Resilience The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) is a network of organizations and individuals who work together to improve the capacity of a region to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from crises. During a natural disaster, the AHC can impact critical infrastructure in several ways:
Overall, the AHC plays a critical role in helping to protect and restore critical infrastructure during a natural disaster, and in ensuring that the region is able to recover and return to normal operations as quickly as possible. The AHC can impact critical infrastructure during a natural disaster:
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Mitigation and Resilience Empowering the next generation of hazard mitigation and resilience professionals to develop creative and effective strategies, resources, projects, and solutions that reduce infrastructure risks and enhance resilience in our communities. Learn more... |
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Disaster Management A new way for industry to work with state/federal government to plan for, respond to & recover from any type of regional incident, disaster, accident or disruption.... Jointly planning and developing a single place to aggregate disasters or crisis response information to sync situational awareness and decision making between states and industry. Results: Getting business & communities back in business faster following disruptions |
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Sensitive Information Sharing
A new private sector operated "trusted" environment for sharing sensitive information w/government Enables "data-driven decision making" to effectively manage disruptions Leverages the SISE (Sensitive Information Sharing Environment) Results: Developing new disaster apps store to centralize information, apps, data and solutions to save time searching across thousands of government and industry websites |
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Cyber Security
Working with industry, government and researchers to enhance cyber security, identity management, and solution development Identifying requirements across multiple sectors for identity management and data security In partnership with DHS Science & Technology, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, and the private sector Results: Aligning and prioritizing research with "real-world" cyber needs |
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Applied Operational Research
Expediting Development and Commercialization of Research Identifying industry response/recovery issues & requirements Create new innovative solutions, processes and technologies Cataloging federal & commercial research technologies, solutions and products Facilitating real world "pilot projects", feedback and enhancements Results: Expediting adoption of innovation within the private sector |
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Public/Private Integrated Planning
Joint Use Case and Solution Development Facilitating public/private working groups to identify common issues (e.g. operational, legal, policy, process or technology) Jointly developing short-, mid-, and long-term solutions Leveraging existing public and private investments, solutions & research for the public/private benefit Results: Innovative information sharing solutions |
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Training & Education
>The AHC is dedicated to developing our leaders in government and industry.
Over the past 15 years, the AHC has had the pleasure of working with several thousand men and women who had acquired thousands of hours of experience and best practices. Additionally, they had families and loves ones who they cared deeply for that also required their time and energy. So who cares for the leaders? Who encourages the leaders? Who helps the leaders learn new skills and strategies to become better "thinkers"? Better people? Better professionals? Who gets leaders connected to communities of other leaders facing the same challenges....so they can relate and share experiences, lessons learned and even some laughs? The AHC's leaders have developed a new training "real-world" based approach that leverages unique content and instructors and partners, not available anywhere else The first set of courses focus on better preparing people at all levels of leadership for preparing and responding to natural disasters. It's called STORM School. Learn more ... |
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STORM School
A New Trade School For Crisis Managers How to leverage 200+ collective years of former electric sector “storm boss” experience, expertise, and observations into actionable insights and steps you can take in the next storm or disaster. Learn more... |
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OPERATIONAL INFORMATION SHARING
Learn how the SISE stakeholders share operational information during a crisis using live, vetted data to synchronize industry and state situational awareness on weather, transportation, road closures, power outages, suppliers of emergency resources, COVID trends, and more along major transportation routes. FREE Registration with SISE is required. |
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What People Say
“This initiative (the AHC’s data driven decision making initiative) will change the way industry and government plan for, respond to and recover from emergencies and disaster in the future.”
Electric Sector Operations Executive, Duke Energy “The Consortium operates the "enabling trust framework" that allows government and the private sector to jointly come together to plan, respond and recover faster to regional incidents via innovative information sharing processes and solutions that benefit multiple states, companies in many sectors and federal agencies year round."
FEMA Executive "During floods and storms that cause power extended power outages, the AHC's unique real-time services provides our County Executive and senior leadership with the ability to better inform the public and county first responders on where they can purchase gas, coffee, food, water, medicine, medical supplies and hotel rooms.“
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Over 50,000+ Nationwide Stakeholders in Industry and Government
“In my 35+ year career in the utility sector, I have never seen the private sector and government operations people work so closely together to produce real solutions to improve each other’s disaster preparedness, response and recovery efforts.” Electric Sector Operations Executive, Retired |