GSN Magazine June 2016 Digital Edition

Call for Nominations: DHS requests nominations for
2016 National Seminar and Tabletop Exercise (NITX)
The U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) requests topic/exercise
scenario nominations
for the 2016 National Seminar
and Tabletop Exercise (NTTX)
for Institutions of Higher Education.
The 2016 NTTX will engage college
and university representatives
in workshop sessions and a tabletop
exercise designed to help prepare
participants to respond to a
campus emergency. The tabletop
exercise will engage team members
and get the participants to work together
to manage the response to a
hypothetical incident. The overall
event seeks to enhance knowledge
of emergency operations planning,
allow participants to improve their
own performance and identify opportunities
to improve capabilities
to respond to real events.
The DHS Office of Academic Engagement
(OAE), in collaboration
with the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) would
like input on topics/exercise scenarios
from the higher education
and emergency management communities
given their equities to
and expertise in campus resilience
emerging issues and trends impacting
colleges and universities. The
2016 NTTX will take place in late
October or early November.
Topic/exercise scenario nominations
must be received by June 17,
2016.
About the NTTX
The NTTX is a series of campusbased
events to test and promote
campus resilience. Each event in
the series includes workshops and
an exercise scenario focused on
a specific resilience-related topic
impacting the higher education
community. DHS launched the inaugural
event in October 2014 at
Northeastern University, providing
insight into common planning,
preparedness, and resilience best
practices and challenges of the academic
community when faced with
an infectious disease outbreak. The
second event in the series occurred
in October 2015 at Indiana University
and focused on the cyber threat
landscape across the U.S. higher education
community.
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Selection Criteria
Nominated topics/exercise scenarios
should reflect campus resilience
issues or trends that impact
the college and university
community. Topics/exercise scenarios
should also align with DHS core
missions:
1. Prevent terrorism and enhancing
security;
2. Secure and manage our borders;
3. Enforce and administer our immigration
laws;
4. Safeguard and secure cyberspace;
and
5. Ensure resilience to disasters.
Please submit your recommended
topic/exercise scenario nominations
in order of priority. OAE will review
topic/exercise scenario recommendations
in coordination with FEMA
to select the topic for the 2016
NTTX. Upon selection of the topic/
exercise scenario, OAE will begin
outreach in July for participation in
the fall event.
Nomination Process
Please send topic/exercise scenario
nominations via email directly to
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