All Hazards Consortium

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2023 NATIONAL RESILIENCE SUMMIT - JAN 24-26
An established environment for sharing problem-solving strategies, initiatives and collaborative research to produce solutions that can reduce your risks and increase resilience.
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Cross Sector External Coordination Workshop
A facilitated workshop designed to identify an organization's key operational concerns and inter dependencies with external entities; the people, processes, and required information to address these concerns, and the development of a customized After Action Report and an Operational Playbook for participants to use going forward.

Coming in 2023
STORM School Advisory Accelerator
A new customized advisory program for a utility of any size to address internal and external business challenges, streamline preparedness and response, and create partnerships with state/local emergency managers.

Coming in 2023
2023 Virtual Cross Sector Virtual Tabletop Exercise
An annual, operations focused tabletop exercise designed to increase disaster communications and coordination between multiple industry sectors and state operations centers on six topics areas: government declarations, waivers, guidance and industry disruption, facility status, and information request before and after a hurricane

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:

Planning and preparedness: The AHC can help organizations develop plans and strategies to protect critical infrastructure before a disaster strikes. This includes identifying vulnerable areas, developing contingency plans, and ensuring that necessary resources are in place.
Coordination and communication: During a disaster, the AHC can help coordinate the efforts of different organizations and agencies, and facilitate communication among them. This can ensure that critical infrastructure is protected and restored in a coordinated and efficient manner.
Response and recovery: The AHC can provide support and resources to help organizations respond to and recover from a disaster. This can include providing equipment and personnel, coordinating logistics, and assisting with damage assessment and repair.

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.

Here is how the All Hazards Consortium (AHC) can impact critical infrastructure during a natural disaster:

Identifying vulnerabilities: The AHC can help organizations identify vulnerabilities in their critical infrastructure, and develop plans to address these vulnerabilities. This can include identifying the most likely types of disasters that could occur in the region, and assessing the potential impact on critical infrastructure.
Developing contingency plans: The AHC can help organizations develop contingency plans to protect critical infrastructure in the event of a disaster. This can include identifying alternative sources of power, developing evacuation plans, and establishing backup communication systems.
Providing resources: The AHC can identify and coordinate resources and assistance to help organizations protect and restore critical infrastructure during and after a disaster. This can include providing equipment and personnel, coordinating logistics, and assisting with damage assessment and repair.
Coordinating efforts: The AHC can help coordinate the efforts of different organizations and agencies, and facilitate communication among them. This can ensure that critical infrastructure is protected and restored in a coordinated and efficient manner.

Overall, the AHC plays a critical role in helping to protect and restore critical infrastructure during a large natural disaster, and in ensuring that the region is able to recover and return to normal operations as quickly as possible.

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 new apps, websites, tools and data sets to enhance situational awareness and decision making

Results: Getting business & communities back in business faster following disruptions

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

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

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

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.

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Operational Solutions

Vetted National SISE PPE Exchange...
Links validated Suppliers & Buyers in secure space..
produces competitive PPE quotes from 500+ Suppliers within minutes. Locates many supplies not just PPE. Saves time.

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.
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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.

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.“
Director Emergency Management, County Government

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

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