New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (NJ OHSP) The corridor of the New Jersey Turnpike within a 10-mile radius of Exit 14 is one of the country’s most vulnerable critical infrastructures. The New Jersey Exit 14 Resiliency Plan Project was conducted to support leaders at the local, county, state, and regional levels in understanding their most critical infrastructure-related response and recovery priorities prior to and following a major security incident, natural disaster, or catastrophic event. As contracted by the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (NJ OHSP), Tidal Basin collected essential information from critical infrastructure partners. NJ OHSP now utilizes a Decision Support Tool (DST) to provide critical infrastructure owners, management, and operators with strategic decision-planning points regarding operational requirements before, during, and after a disaster. Tidal Basin assessed and addressed shortfalls and gaps in the existing COOP plan, process, and current documents. We scheduled meetings and interviewed more than 30 groups to gather information to complete a Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) for each and the airport as a whole. These essential functions fed into airport-wide mission essential functions. Tidal Basin also developed a Stakeholder Communications Matrix to identify which internal departments have relationships with external stakeholders quickly. New York University Langone Medical Center (NYULMC) NYULMC asked Tidal Basin to develop an Emergency Operation Plan (EOP) and a Business Continuity Plan (BCP). We created a hurricane emergency plan/ incident action plan and a timeline decision matrix, establishing risks, considerations, and impacts for each decision on the matrix. NYULMC now has an aid to indicate the optimal time to make a decision and a stepwise list of what those decisions need to be. This plan also includes annexes, including evacuation and communications. Tidal Basin also developed, prepared for, and facilitated an onsite tabletop security and strategies discussion. NY-NJ-CT-PA Regional Catastrophic Planning Team Tidal Basin worked with the NY-NJ-CT-PA Regional Catastrophic Planning Team to collect, enter, and validate data from key critical infrastructure sectors. The information provided public and private leadership in the region with visibility and understanding of vulnerabilities in advance of an incident, ensuring that response and recovery activities facilitated the successful economic and societal recovery in the region. Tidal Basin successfully participated in each task integrated into the approach, emphasizing Priority Assets and Data and Impact Assessments. These two tasks provided the impetus for the project and supported the accuracy and ability to predict return time objectives, external critical needs, and other pertinent dependencies.
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(Tidal Basin team members) are true subject matter experts, which allowed us to get a proven product while uncovering and addressing the complexities of our large operation. This COOP is now the foundation of our recovery operations following large and small continuity events. Deborah S. Helton Emergency Management Administrator, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
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