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B.C. Safe Silviculture Project: Contractor Capacity-Building in Wildland Fire Management
"There is significant need to increase the capacity of the private-sector wildland fire resource in British Columbia. The 2003 fire season revealed a shortage of trained and qualified personnel to carry out not only the traditional work of extended attack and mop- up but also to carry out the dangerous and demanding job of initial attack. The results of the 2003 fire season also revealed the need for more aggressive fuel treatments including the use of prescribed fire."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation [website]
"The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is Australia's national security service. ASIO's main role is to gather information and produce intelligence that will enable it to warn the government about activities or situations that might endanger Australia's national security. The ASIO Act defines 'security' as the protection of Australia and its people from espionage, sabotage, politically motivated violence, the promotion of communal violence, attacks on Australia's defence system, and acts of foreign interference."
Australian Security Intelligence Organization
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Defence Science and Technology Organisation [website]
"The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) is the Australian Governments lead agency charged with applying science and technology to protect and defend Australia and its national interests. DSTO delivers expert, impartial advice and innovative solutions for Defence and other elements of national security. [...]. DSTO supports Australia's defence by: Investigating future technologies for defence applications; Ensuring Australia is a smart buyer of defence equipment; Developing new defence capabilities; Enhancing existing capabilities by increasing operational effectiveness, improving safety, maximising availability and reducing the cost of ownership. DSTO's capability also supports whole-of-government national security needs."
Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia)
2004
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International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament [website]
"The International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament is a joint initiative of the Australian and Japanese Governments. It aims to reinvigorate international efforts on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, in the context of both the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, and beyond. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd proposed the Commission on the 9 June 2008, in Kyoto, to be co-chaired by former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans. On 9 July, Prime Minister Rudd and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda agreed to establish the Commission and announced that former Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi would co-chair the Commission. Research papers specially commissioned as background material for the work of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament are being progressively made available online."
International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament
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Facility Security: Access Badges for Secure Areas
"Facility managers should ensure that all personnel have photo identification visible in order to make certain that only appropriate personnel are in authorized areas. A colored badge system can be used to visibly identify which access areas the individual is authorized to enter."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Public Health Emergency Planning: Incorporating Triggers into Plans to Guide Decision Making
"Public health emergency planners should consider incorporating triggers for declaring a public health emergency into plans to help guide decision making."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Emergency Management: Hiring a Caterer for Extended Emergency Operations Center Activations
"Emergency operations centers (EOC) should consider hiring a caterer for EOC activations lasting longer than one operational period. This can be achieved through a prearranged contract for catering support, which can be initiated as needed during EOC activations."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Emergency Planning: Establishing a Traffic Control Plan to Reduce Congestion Around Incident Sites
"Emergency managers should consider establishing a traffic control plan to ensure rapid ingress/egress for emergency medical services (EMS) vehicles during mass casualty incidents. These plans can help responders prepare for incidents in areas that present transportation challenges."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Healthcare Ready [website]
"Healthcare Ready (formerly Rx Response) helps to strengthen healthcare supply chains through collaboration with public health and private sectors by addressing pressing issues before, during, and after disasters. As the convener of industry and government, we safeguard patient health by providing solutions to critical problems. And, we provide best practices for healthcare preparedness and response."
Healthcare Ready
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Emergency Communications: Utilizing a Communications Unit to Implement an Interoperability Plan
"During large-scale incidents, incident command can implement a comprehensive communications interoperability plan through the use of a communications unit."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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United States Forest Service Smokejumpers: National User Guide
This document is meant to inform fire managers and dispatch offices about the US Fire Service Smokejumper program, and increase awareness of smokejumper utilization.
United States. Forest Service
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Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) [website]
From the "What We Do" page: "The Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) was founded in 2013 on the principle that accurate analysis is a critical first step toward preventing violent conflict. Our mission is to explain the dynamics of conflict--why it started, how it changed, what drives it, who benefits--and get that information quickly to people who can use it to bring about positive change. In areas wracked by violence, accurate analysis of conflict is essential not only to peaceful settlement but also to formulating effective policies on everything from good governance to poverty alleviation. We look at six kinds of conflict: communal, land and resource, electoral, vigilante, extremist and insurgent, understanding that one dispute can take several forms or progress from one form to another. We send experienced analysts with long-established contacts in the area to the site to meet with all parties, review primary written documentation where available, check secondary sources and produce in-depth reports, with policy recommendations or examples of best practices where appropriate. Our initial focus is Indonesia, with planned expansion to Myanmar and Bangladesh, in the expectation that insights from understanding conflict in the first will be applicable to the others. There may be elements from Indonesia's resolution of communal conflicts in Maluku and Poso, for example, which have relevance for efforts to curb Buddhist violence against Muslims in Myanmar. In others cases, a single issue such as extremism may produce a network that connects the three countries."
Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) (Indonesia)
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Legal Provisions on Fighting Extremism
This document describes the legal provisions for fighting extremism in China, Pakistan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
Law Library of Congress (U.S.)
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Department of Defense Laboratory Review
"The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently became aware of a cybersecurity incident affecting its systems and data that may have exposed the personal information of current and former Federal employees. DoD has been informed by OPM that some employee data has potentially been compromised in this incident and this note provides you with more information. Since the incident was identified, OPM has partnered with the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine the impact to Federal personnel. As a result of this investigation, OPM is notifying approximately 4 million individuals whose Personally Identifiable Information may have been compromised. The notifications will be sent beginning June 8 and continuing through June 19 by email and U.S. mail."
United States. Department of Defense
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LLIS Lesson Learned: Radiological Incident Response: Post-Release Psychological Management
"Emergency managers should establish psychological support mechanisms for victims, emergency responders, hospital personnel, and the public following an incident involving the release of radioactive material. Teams of mental health experts should be integrated with other responders following radiological events."
Lessons Learned Information Sharing (LLIS)
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Arctic Council [website]
From the "About the Arctic Council" page: "The Ottawa Declaration of 1996 formally established the Arctic Council as a high level intergovernmental forum to provide a means for promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the Arctic States, with the involvement of the Arctic Indigenous communities and other Arctic inhabitants on common Arctic issues, in particular issues of sustainable development and environmental protection in the Arctic. Arctic Council Member States are Canada, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, and the United States of America. In addition to the Member States, the Arctic Council has the category of Permanent Participants."
United States. Arctic Research Commission
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Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States of America Department of Defense and the People's Republic of China Ministry of National Defense on Notification of Major Military Activities Confidence-Building Measures Mechanism, Annex III: Military Crisis Notification Mechanism for Use of the Defense Telephone Link
This is the third annex to the Memorandum of Understanding Between the United States of America Department of Defense and the People's Republic of China Ministry of National Defense on Notification of Major Military Activities Confidence-Building Measures Mechanism. From Purpose: "The military crisis notification mechanism for use of the Defense Telephone Link (hereinafter referred to as the military crisis notification mechanism) is intended to improve and normalize mutual notification of military crisis information via the Defense Telephone Link (DTL) including audio and video modes, in order to reduce risk, foster mutual trust, and increase openness. Both sides recognize the importance of sustained channels of communication and share a commitment to avoid misunderstanding and miscalculation, and to prevent unintended incidents or crisis from harming the overall relationship."
United States. Department of Defense
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Stronger Neighbors - Stronger Borders: Addressing the Root Causes of the Migration Surge from Central America
"In the spring of 2014, tens of thousands of children and families from El Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras - known as the Northern Triangle of Central America - arrived at the southwest border of the
United States seeking protection and a safe place to live. Many of these migrants were fleeing conditions
of severe violence, deprivation, and death. Some, after a treacherous 1,500-mile journey through Mexico,
did not arrive at all.
The surge was also a costly
logistical challenge, as the
numbers and unique needs
of the migrants overwhelmed
Border Patrol agents, shelters,
detention facilities and the
immigration courts. The
federal government struggled
to find suitable shelter and legal
support for the unaccompanied
minors, in particular.
Since that spring, the Obama
Administration (herein after
'the Administration') has put
into place an array of measures
to manage the heightened
migration from the Northern
Triangle. Those efforts - and
those of the governments
of Mexico and the Central
America - initially served to
reduce the flow at the U.S.
southwest border. However,
thousands of migrants
continue to take the dangerous
trip north and the numbers
reaching the United States have
been steadily rising again."
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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Centre for European Policy Studies [website]
"Founded in Brussels in 1983, the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) is among the most experienced and authoritative think tanks operating in the European Union today. CEPS serves as a leading forum for debate on EU affairs, but its most distinguishing feature lies in its strong in-house research capacity, complemented by an extensive network of partner institutes throughout the world. CEPS' funding is obtained from a variety of sources, including membership fees, project research, foundation grants, conferences fees, publication sales and an annual grant from the European Commission."
Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium)
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International Cospas-Sarsat Programme [website]
"The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme (the Programme) is an intergovernmental organisation established in 1988 under the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme Agreement (the Agreement) signed by Canada, France, the former USSR, and the USA. The Russian Federation replaced the USSR as Party to the Agreement in January 1992. Including the four Parties to the Agreement, 41 States and 2 organisations (the Participants) are now currently formally associated with the Programme and actively participate in the management and the operation of the Cospas-Sarsat System (the System). The mission of the Programme is to provide accurate, timely and reliable distress alert and location data to help Search and Rescue (SAR) authorities assist persons in distress. The objective of the Cospas-Sarsat System is to reduce, as far as possible, delays in the provision of distress alerts to SAR services, and the time required to locate a person in distress at sea or on land and provide assistance to that person, all of which have a direct impact on the probability of survival. To achieve this objective, Cospas-Sarsat Participants implement, maintain, co-ordinate and operate a satellite system capable of detecting distress alert transmissions from radio beacons that comply with Cospas-Sarsat specifications and performance standards, and of determining their position anywhere on the globe. The distress alert and location data is provided by Cospas-Sarsat Participants to the responsible SAR services."
International Cospas-Sarsat Programme
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Unclassified Annex - Iranian Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean
From the text: "Assumptions: 1. Iranian interest in Latin America is of concern. Iran has serially failed to live up to its international obligations and is a State Sponsor of Terrorism. 2. Since 2005, Iran has increased its outreach to the region working to strengthen its political, economic, cultural, and military ties. 3. As a result of diplomatic outreach, strengthening of allies' capacity, international nonproliferation efforts, a strong sanctions policy, and Iran's poor management of its foreign relations, Iranian influence in Latin America and the Caribbean is waning. 4. Current U.S., EU, and UN Security Council sanction regimes have limited the economic relationship between the Western Hemisphere and Iran."
United States. Congress. House
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BEA: Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile [website]
"The BEA (Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la sécurité de l'aviation civile) is the French authority responsible for safety investigations into accidents or incidents in civil aviation." The BEA website provides links to pages including "The BEA"; "Investigation Techniques"; "Safety Reports"; "Safety Studies"; and "Communication." This site is available in both French and English.
France. Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA)
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Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus
This webpage from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on the Avian Influenza A (H7N9) virus, as well as other links for health professionals and travelers, as well as information regarding flu basics and the flu vaccine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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Frontex [website]
From the 'About Frontex' section: "Frontex promotes, coordinates and develops European border management in line with the EU fundamental rights charter applying the concept of Integrated Border Management. Frontex helps border authorities from different EU countries work together. Frontex's full title is the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union. The agency was set up in 2004 to reinforce and streamline cooperation between national border authorities. In pursuit of this goal, Frontex has several operational areas which are defined in the founding Frontex Regulation and a subsequent amendment."
Frontex (Organization)
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Climate Strategies [website]
"Climate Strategies is a not-for-profit organization that provides world-class, independent policy and economic research input to European and international climate policy. Climate Strategies works with an international network of experts to bridge the gap between research and policy, and provides unrivalled analysis for international decision-makers in the fields of climate change and energy policy. Climate Strategies is supported by broad spectrum of national governments, businesses and foundations."
2013?
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Intelink Ebola Digest [blog]
This is a weekly digest produced by Intelink. Sources linked in the digest are from open, unclassified resources. The content of the article links has not been altered, and is not an evaluated intelligence product. The digest provides links to mapping resources, logistics resources, Ebola collaboration, published research and academic materials, education and prevention, health agencies working on Ebola contagion, non-profit organizations involved, and recommended guidelines for Ebola from the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Ebola Digest begins with posts from September 8, 2014.
Intelink
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Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative [website]
From the About AMTI page: "The center of gravity in world affairs has shifted to Asia. No other region will do more to determine whether the 21st century will be a peaceful and prosperous one. For this reason, it is imperative that Pacific nations do everything in their power to reduce the risk of inadvertent or accidental conflict. The maritime environment in East Asia contains both promise and peril. The Indo-Pacific region is host to some of the world's most important shipping lanes, facilitates huge volumes of regional trade, and boasts abundant natural resources. Competing territorial claims, incidents between neighboring countries, and increasing militarization, however, raise the possibility that an isolated event at sea could become a geopolitical catastrophe. This is all occurring against a backdrop of relative opaqueness. Geography makes it difficult to monitor events as they occur, and there is no public, reliable authority for information on maritime developments. The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative seeks to change this. AMTI was conceived of and designed by CSIS [Center for Strategic and International Studies]. It is an interactive, regularly-updated source for information, analysis, and policy exchange on maritime security issues in Asia. AMTI aims to promote transparency in the Indo-Pacific to dissuade assertive behavior and conflict and generate opportunities for cooperation and confidence building. Because AMTI aims to provide an objective platform for exchange, AMTI and CSIS take no position on territorial or maritime claims. For consistency, all geographic locations are identified using the naming conventions of the United States Government as determined by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names."
Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
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European Union Agency for Network and Information Security [website]
"The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is a centre of expertise for cyber security in Europe. [...] ENISA is actively contributing to a high level of network and information security (NIS) within the Union, since it was set up in 2004, to the development of a culture of NIS in society and in order to raise awareness of NIS, thus contributing to proper functioning of the internal market. The Agency works closely together with Members States and private sector to deliver advice and solutions. This includes, the pan-European Cyber Security Exercises, the development of National Cyber Security Strategies, CSIRTs cooperation and capacity building, but also studies on secure Cloud adoption, addressing data protection issues, privacy enhancing technologies and privacy on emerging technologies, eIDs and trust services, and identifying the cyber threat landscape, and others. ENISA also supports the development and implementation of the European Union's policy and law on matters relating to NIS."
European Union. Agency for Network and Information Security
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Joint Statement of Intent by Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Defence of the French Republic, and the Honorable Ashton Carter, Secretary of Defense of the United States of America
"France and the United States have built, over the past two centuries, the oldest alliance between two nations on the European and American continents. Formed in the crucible of the U.S. War of Independence, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and all the common struggles faced by our two countries in the past half-century, this alliance is first and foremost the offspring of women and men who share common values, as well as the will and capacity to defend them. The French and American people have constantly embodied this alliance. The support France extended to the American people following the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States was reciprocated by U.S. shows of solidarity with France the day after the November 13, 2015, attacks. Today, military cooperation between France and the United States is stronger than ever. At the core of our partnership is the awareness that France and the United States face similar security challenges, and that we must confront them together. […]In the coming years, we anticipate having to face together a range of threats from both State and non-State actors while striving to uphold the international rules-based order. This Joint Statement of Intent seeks to capture our vision and provide a framework for future bilateral cooperation. As its authors and leaders of our militaries, we acknowledge the non-legally binding nature of this document, but believe that it is important to make this public statement together."
United States. Department of Defense
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Blank Compendium Entry Form
This document contains a blank compendium entry form for state and local jurisdictions to fill-out and return to FEMA.
United States. Department of Homeland Security
