2008 ORAU Annual Report - Oak Ridge Associated Universities

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Capabilities in National Security and
Emergency Management
• Plan, coordinate, and execute a
variety of national and statewide
weapons of mass destruction exercises
• Provide operational support to
DOE’s Nuclear Incident Team and senior
energy officials for worldwide deployment
of NNSA’s response teams
• Integrate emergency management
through exercises, networking,
information management, and
innovative preparedness and
response technology
• Provide emergency management
integration to DOE and the DHS
fixed-facilities programs through
networking, information management,
and innovative preparedness and
response tools
• Provide a real-time, common-operating
picture of readiness for NNSA’s
emergency response assets through
an ORISE-developed and -maintained
national asset database
• Provide expert forensic and
hazardous device examination
capabilities to federal, state, and local
law enforcement agencies to combat
international and domestic terrorism
FY08 by the Numbers
• Succesfully planned, coordinated,
and executed a number of interagency
exercises for
- DOE Office of Emergency
Response (10 exercises, including
Topoff 4 and Diablo Bravo)
- State of California - Golden Guardian
- Bureau of Reclamation - Hoover Dam
• Conducted more than 600,000 latent
fingerprint examinations
Securing Our Country Against Terrorism and
National Emergencies
ederal, state, and local government agencies need emergency
planning and operational support to enhance and integrate their
efforts to combat terrorism, natural disasters, and other hazards. ORAU
experts provide mission-focused operational experience in real-world
environments and demonstrated expertise to support these agencies
with planning, research, and readiness activities, which strengthen their
preparedness and response capabilities.
Customers and Partners
• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• California Emergency Management Agency (Ca EMA)
• U.S. Department of State (DOS)
- Prevention of Nuclear Smuggling Program
• U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO)
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR)
CONTACT US:
national.security@orau.org
(202) 955-3628
www.orau.org/busops/nsem/
Photo credit: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation
Ensuring National Readiness for Public
Safety and Security Threats
Whether the threat is nuclear terrorism, a natural disaster, or a security
breech at one of our nation’s key infrastructure dam sites, no one can
predict when or where our country will be threatened. For this reason,
national readiness is critical, and that can best be achieved through
planning, practice, and validating response capabilities.
ORAU partners with DOE/NNSA, DHS, and other federal, state, and
local government agencies to ensure the highest level of national
readiness. Through integrated, specialized expertise and technology,
emergency management research and planning, and hands-on
exercises and training, ORAU is strengthening our country’s response
capabilities and preparing the U.S. to successfully counter threats to
public safety and security.
Integrating Emergency Management
and Response Capabilities
The unthinkable can happen. A dirty bomb is dropped in a
major metropolitan area during rush hour, and thousands are
contaminated. An unexpected tornado tears through a central
state in the early morning hours and leaves little more than
mass casualties in its wake. When the unthinkable does happen,
numerous federal, state, and local agencies will respond with help.
A quick, integrated response will be essential.
Before these events take place, ORAU is there to serve as an
interagency integrator of emergency management capabilities,
bringing together agencies that work similar programs to
coordinate their efforts and enhance their overall
readiness. This ensures that the agencies can
blend each other’s strengths and assets together
to provide the most effective response.
Photo credit: California Emergency Management Agency
National Security and Emergency Management
Photo credit:
U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Reclamation
Full-Scale Exercise Tests
Security and Emergency
Response at National Landmark
A critical U.S. infrastructure asset,
Hoover Dam was the site of a full-scale,
unclassified exercise in 2008, with the
goal of testing its security and
emergency response plans in the
event of a terrorist attack.
After a year of planning, a team of
ORAU exercise planners led more
than 23 participating federal, state, and local
agencies through a 12-hour drill
that involved a series of planning
conferences, tabletop exercises, drills,
and vignettes both in and around
the dam.
The exercise provided participants—
Hoover Dam Police, FBI, Las Vegas
Metro Police, the National Park
Service, and others—an opportunity
to test their emergency plans and build
interagency relationships for effective
coordination in the future.