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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Using this data, we summed the enacted budget authority for supplemental appropriations by year. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022.

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SIA New Member Profile: Quanergy

Security Industry Association

Gerald Becker : Quanergy, a publicly traded company (NYSE: QNGY and QNGY.WS), was founded in 2012 with the ambition to solve difficult problems in various markets with 3D technology. GB : Just a short time into the pandemic, businesses were deploying different solutions to track occupancy in their buildings and control social distancing.

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Powering Resilience with Critical Event Management

everbridge

Businesses and communities are experiencing a growing number of disruptions from threats like severe weather, civil unrest, theft and vandalism, pandemics, and cyber-attacks. According to the IMF’s World Uncertainty Index , “…global uncertainty has increased significantly since 2012. Uncertainty is the New Normal.

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How retailers are improving productivity, transforming incident response, and empowering teams with PagerDuty by PagerDuty

PagerDuty

Like many retailers, it had a complex and interconnected technology ecosystem, including inventory solutions, website authentication and authorization tools, and pricing platforms. The pandemic piled more pressure on retailers than ever before as brick-and-mortar stores saw traffic move to online shopping.

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5 Ways Smart Cities Use Data—and 4 Ways to Keep That Data Secure

Pure Storage

The pandemic has thrown the need for improved public health services into sharp focus. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New York City emergency management officials realized there were flaws in the city’s data infrastructure. Smart City Data Trends . Building Healthcare Ecosystems.

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Emergency Communication

BCP Builder

Prominent examples include the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011 or the sinking of the “Costa Concordia” cruise ship in 2012. Even events that are known and somewhat predictable like the SARS Cov2 Pandemic are ineffectively handled and preparation was poor.

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Emergency Communication

BCP Builder

Prominent examples include the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011 or the sinking of the “Costa Concordia” cruise ship in 2012. Even events that are known and somewhat predictable like the SARS Cov2 Pandemic are ineffectively handled and preparation was poor. About the Author.