Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response McLean, VA-based Science Applications International Corporation was awarded a prime contract by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide exercise design and control support services to the FEMA National Exercise Division (NED) to enrich the National Exercise Program (NEP). The company said on Nov. 15…
SAIC wins FEMA domestic preparedness contract
Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption: SAIC Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) was awarded a prime contract by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Oct. 8 to provide training delivery services in support of the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). The single-award, cost-plus award-fee and fixed price contract has…
NNSA tests preparedness in radiological emergency response exercise
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: cbrne_detection Image Caption: RAP exercise Radiological emergency response teams gathered for a terror-attack response exercise in Albuquerque, NM, the week of Sept. 10. Members of the National Nuclear Security Agency’s (NNSA) Radiological Assistance Teams working under the NNSA’s Radiological Assistance Program (RAP) attended intensive training…
ASIS 2012: Napolitano calls on industry to spend more on cyber preparedness
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: cyber_security Image Caption: DHS SecretaryJanet Napolitano When DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano received the 2012 CSO Roundtable’s “Leadership and Security Award” and addressed a luncheon crowd at the ASIS show in Philadelphia on September 10, the not-so-subtle message she seemed to deliver was this: I’m telling…