Commonwealth of Virginia, Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) Tidal Basin worked with VDEM on the Secure Commonwealth Initiative. This project was designed to ensure a safe, secure, and prepared Virginia by developing and overseeing a coordinated prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery strategy for natural and human-caused disasters and emergencies, including terrorist attacks that encompass local, state, federal, and private partners and the citizens of the Commonwealth. Tidal Basin developed a strategic plan outlining suggested preparedness strategies for future local and state governments focused on specific goals, including: • S trengthening medical surge capability for situations that overwhelm local resources • Improving communications (operable and interoperable) to align with the State Communications Interoperability Plan • Supporting active participation by all relevant stakeholders • Taking actions to enhance the ability to prevent terrorist acts against the people and infrastructure of the Commonwealth Tidal Basin operated as part of a joint venture called Dominion Emergency Planners, which held the contract and executed the work. The project entailed a comprehensive review and assessment of COOP plans for all 117 executive agencies within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Tidal Basin conducted all project management responsibilities and quality control/quality assurance tasks. Regional Operations Intelligence Center, State of New Jersey This project featured regular joint operation and collaboration between the New Jersey State Police, Continuity Operations Group, and Tidal Basin in the successful completion of project goals, which included the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information relative to terroristic or criminal cyber threats and attacks within and against the state, its citizens, and/or its infrastructure. Tidal Basin analysts researched and collected open and classified source cyber-threat information to produce and present cyber-related threats and vulnerability research papers, reports, alerts, bulletins, and related work products for state and agency use and the larger Intelligence Community Information Sharing environment.
Assessed 117 executive agencies within the Commonwealth of Virginia
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