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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. An example is the excoriating report produced by three eminent Japanese women after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear release, which highlights the deficiencies of a response system in which decision making is in the hands of elderly males. [1] Ohara and H.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Yet the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts include no experts on managing emergencies, even though this is the most extensive, and perhaps the most profound, emergency that the country has faced in the last 75 years. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.

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SIA New Member Profile: ThreatModeler

Security Industry Association

To address this shortcoming, ThreatModeler launched its first intelligence-based threat engine in 2011 aimed at helping developers incorporate threat modeling into the software development life cycle. However, only few companies had the resources and money to do this exercise.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

We have forward-looking actions across government, such as FEMA’s Strategic Plan. The framework changed with the Budget Control Act in 2011, which led to the emergence of a more focused and proactive funding model from 2012-2020, and a lessened reliance on reactive supplemental appropriations. The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA; P.L.

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What Dave Komendat, Boeing CSO and ISC West Keynote Speaker, Says Was His Hardest Career Challenge

Security Industry Association

The challenge he faced was even more difficult than what he encountered after Japan’s Fukushima earthquake of 2011. The next longest, sustained challenge I have led was our internal response to the Japan earthquake and subsequent nuclear event at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, where we were engaged for roughly eight weeks.

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2022 SIA Women in Biometrics Awards Profile: Gena Alexa

Security Industry Association

Alexa, who has held key technical and management roles in the delivery of strategic government biometrics programs for more than 20 years, started her career as a software developer and architect. “In She left Unisys in 2011 to explore a role with a small business focused on CBP and ICE Intel solutions. “In

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