Recent reports indicate that the U.S. Border Patrol has encountered over 1.4 million migrants on the southwest land border in fiscal year 2023. Thousands of migrants from over 100 countries are seeking to enter the United States each day. As the number of migrants continue to surge on U.S. borders, the Department of Homeland Security has increased its spending on federal contracts to address humanitarian assistance and migration control. This...

Placemaking at the Local Level: Livable Communities, Thriving Economies This conference investigates how local governments enhance the quality of life in their communities by addressing critical issues such as climate change, housing, aging infrastructure, and economic development. Session topics will include, but are not limited to: Addressing Critical Infrastructure Needs at the Local Level Building Local Revenue Through Tourism Homelessnes...

Whether it’s personal protective equipment, security cameras or bottled water, GSA Disaster Preparedness and Security and Protection categories provide SL&T agencies with direct access to products, services and commercial experts. GSA’s Disaster Preparedness and Security Protection categories are the perfect place to obtain or address your organizations emergency and security needs.

Organizations supporting first responders and emergency management teams need to be equipped to quickly execute to protect lives, lands, and properties. Technology and process should be an enabler of response, not something that gets in the way. ServiceNow can digitize and streamline critical emergency management workflows to give all response participants – from managers to dispatchers to responders to volunteers to the community at lar...

PLEASE NOTE: There is no registration for this event. Event website link will open in Microsoft Teams. If you have any questions or would like the invite, please reach out to cisa.exercises@cisa.dhs.gov. In order to support our partners who wish to use the wide array of CTEPs available through CISA, which include such topics as active shooter, vehicle ramming Unmanned Aerials Systems, Cyber vectors, etc. CISA Exercises will be hosting a 60-min...

Smart cities and sensors are the way that cities are moving but they are limited by data working in silos alone rather than cohesively working together. Limitations of “Smart” capabilities are also “reactionary” by design…but “Informed Environments” are proactive – delivering prioritized, predictive, and complete sensor-inclusive awareness. In this forum, Byteworks would like to discuss collabor...

Organizations supporting first responders and emergency management teams need to be equipped to quickly execute to protect lives, lands, and properties. Technology and process should be an enabler of response, not something that gets in the way. ServiceNow can digitize and streamline critical emergency management workflows to give all response participants – from managers to dispatchers to responders to volunteers to the community at lar...

Learn about the GSA Public Health Emergencies (PHE) program and how this program functions to benefit state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. When a federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) is declared, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments can benefit from GSA Schedules’ speed, savings, and ease of use. Under the GSA PHE program, these non-federal entities are authorized to buy from all Schedules when spending federa...

This webinar will provide an overview of the claim environment during a Catastrophe (CAT) and how unscrupulous claimants, vendors, and others can take advantage of a CAT situation.

Organizations supporting first responders and emergency management teams need to be equipped to quickly execute to protect lives, lands, and properties. Technology and process should be an enabler of response, not something that gets in the way. ServiceNow can digitize and streamline critical emergency management workflows to give all response participants – from managers to dispatchers to responders to volunteers to the community at lar...