With a growing number of dams approaching their design service life, dam safety engineers are looking for ways to mitigate the risks related to public safety, aging infrastructure and rising maintenance costs. Modernizing dam monitoring and maintenance practices with digital advancements, including the latest automated condition monitoring solutions, drone-captured reality modeling and digital twins, are giving public sector dam operators tool...

On-scene commanders make decisions in the high-threat law enforcement context of hostage rescue, armed barricaded suspects, and armed suicidal individuals that can result in successful or catastrophic outcomes. The OpTac International Critical Incident Leadership and Decision-Making Program is based on Dr. Stuart A. Meyers’ research published in the books, High-Threat Decisions: When It’s a Matter of Life and Death and SWAT Operati...

Overview Struggling with the rising costs of providing EMS to your community? Tune into this webinar to learn how other communities are coping with this challenge. In recent years, many jurisdictions throughout the country have struggled with the rapidly increasing costs of providing emergency medical services (EMS) to residents. This issue, along with the staffing difficulties many departments are facing, has drastically altered the EMS lands...

City services are essential and must continue - even in the midst of an ongoing pandemic. In Orange County, California the court system needed to figure out a way to digitally track their staff, vaccination status, time off and caseloads to ensure the judicial system continued to move forward. The answer came in the form of data analytics and machine learning.Join us online Wednesday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. ET to hear how Orange County was able to...

The 4th Annual Defence Safety Conference will return to London this October as the only event of its kind focused on enhancing safety across all aspects of defence. Supported by the UK MOD Defence Safety Authority for the fourth year in a row, this meeting is unparallel in its ability to bring together senior safety practitioners from across global defence to discuss how to save lives and protect capability. KEY REASONS TO ATTEND: The only eve...

Military UAV’s Create Multiple-Mission Opportunities for Industry Military spending for this technology is expected to grow as an overall percentage of large military budgets such as the United States’ and Chinese defense budget, offering specialized drone manufacturers and software developers a tremendous opportunity. While drones will never completely replace soldiers, this debate is becoming less important in the current strateg...

CISA Region IX invites you to join the next quarterly Los Angeles Area UAS Working Group Meeting which will be held on May 13, 2021 from 9:30 a.m to 11:30 a.m. (PST). The Spring 2021 L.A. Area UAS Working Group Meeting will feature guest speakers from the following organizations : FAA, CISA, Los Angeles Port Police, University of Southern California (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) and will cover updates on the following topics:...

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Threat Intelligence and Global Strategy & Policy teams will provide a briefing on SolarWinds. They will cover the campaign's scope, timeline, impact, lessons learned, and policy implications in the wake of the most damaging supply chain attack in recent memory. This briefing will strictly focus on their knowledge of the SolarWinds hack and the threat it poses for government organizations at every level. The brief...

ANME WINTER 2021 IS GOING ONLINE After months of discussions with our ANME Las Vegas partners and our ANME community, we have made the decision to forgo the “in-person” ANME Winter 2021 in Las Vegas. This was not a decision we took lightly but due to the continuing pandemic and current state regulations, there is little certainty regarding our hosting a “live” event in Las Vegas. This decision to cancel has been made wi...

Online and virtual learning can present unique student safety challenges. This one-hour Microsoft Teams training provides an overview for both administrators and educators to understand best practices for setting up policies and administer meetings and channels with recommended controls. These settings will help ensure a safer and more productive environment for your students using Microsoft Teams for distance learning. Participants will leave...