Results Produced
The ENDEAVOR Model is supported by the All Hazards Consortium (AHC).
Since 2005, the All Hazards Consortium (AHC) has used its Joint Integrated Planning Framework to bring together state and private sector partners at the regional and national levels to solve complex problems and reduce risk.
The ENDEAVOR program builds on this same framework but applies it with a state-specific focus.
While tailored to individual states, ENDEAVOR leverages AHC’s broader network of regional and national partners, along with their experience and resources, to develop practical solutions and partnerships at the state and local levels including:
Sustained Planning and Problem Solving Work Groups
• The Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE) Working Group
• The State Private Sector Liaison Working Group
• The SISE-net Working Group
• The SISE-net Cross-Sector Exercise Working Group
• The Operational Training Working Group
• The SISE Strategic Advisory Committee
• Drones/UAVs for Industry & Government Operational Use
• Advancing Women in Crisis and Consequence Management
• Business Resiliency Discussion Group
• Multiple Use Case Committees
• The ENDEAVOR Working Groups for industry led working groups with state emergency managers:
https://www.ahcusa.org/endeavor-model.html
Events / Meetings / Workshops
• 100+ annual working group and use case committee meetings held weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly and annually.
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ENDEAVOR working group workshops in Pennsylvania and Virginia focused on cross-sector operational problem solving in natural disasters, cybersecurity, and information sharing:
www.goENDEAVOR.org• The
2024 FEMA National Private Sector Liaison (PSL) Workshop - held in April 2024 to support training of PSL at the state and regional level on multiple topics and develop use cases to work on:
2024 PSL Workshop Report • The Annual National Resilience Exchange Summit Conference held in January 2021, 2022, 2023 for support of resilience efforts across the U.S.
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STORM/Crisis Preparedness Workshop series to train the next generation of storm professionals.
• The
Business Resiliency Virtual Discussion Series - held in 2021, 2022, and 2023 that focused on a wide variety of topics of interest including cyber and physical security, technology, pandemic response, emerging threats, and more.
Process Improvements
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The SISE Integrated Planning Framework - designed to facilitate planning and problem solving efforts that identify common problems facing the private sector and government, build a common understanding of the problem and the impacts, and work towards short-, mid-, and long-term solutions together in a FOIA protected environment.
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Developed a Data Confidence Standards - The Operational Readiness Level (ORL) Data Confidence Standard to rank the confidence factor for data used by decision makers:
https://www.ahcusa.org/orl-data-standard.htm•
The Multi-State Fleet Movement Coordination with States - a process to support mutual assistance movements for expediting power restoration efforts.
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The US/Canadian Border Crossing Process to expedite movement across the border for power restorations in Northeast U.S.
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National Fleet Movement Coordination for historic Puerto Rico Power Restoration following Hurricane Maria in 2017
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Nationwide collaboration and training initiative with 22 state emergency management agencies and operational coordination with industry during crises or disasters.
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Regional Transportation Policy - Created processes for state-to-state coordination with private sector to expedite power and critical infrastructure response and restoration during hurricanes and winter storms in Eastern U.S.
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State Transportation Policy Support: Helped shape new statewide transportation policy in Pennsylvania during winter storms for road restrictions that is more effective and saves lives.
Training, Exercises & Technologies•
The Annual Cross-Sector Virtual Exercise Series - Developed multi-state, cross sector hurricane exercises and solutions that help states streamline communications sync situational awareness during hurricanes:
https://www.ahcusa.org/cross-sector-exercises.html• Numerous
virtual and live training sessions and workshops since 2005 on a wide variety of topics including problem solving, supply chain, lodging, crisis management, cross-regional coordination, information sharing cyber, crisis communications, data confidence, and more
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STORM School Training and Advisory - A training resource that leverages storm and disaster response expertise to mentor new hires in the electric sector and states.
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Fleet Movement App - This provides LIVE data feeds for transportation planning during disaster including LIVE road closures, facility status, declarations/waivers, locations for lodging, fuel, hospitals and much more.
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National Vetted PPE Exchange - A digital high-speed sourcing model that connects vetted PPE buyers/suppliers in near real-time to find PPE inventories during local shortages.
• The
SISE-net Operational Information Sharing Hub - to sync operational situational awareness between industry and government during certain disasters:
https://www.ahcusa.org/sise-net-information-hub.html
Federal Grants / Funded Projects
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FEMA Regional Catastrophic Grant Program (2008-2014) - That facilitated and served as fiduciary for 14 multi-state planning projects with Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia Pennsylvania and Delaware to support strategic planning for a catastrophic incident.
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FEMA BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) Grant Program - The GPODS Energy Storage Initiative in Virginia to support the FEMA BRIC (Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities) grant:
https://www.ahcusa.org/energy-storage-initiative.html•
DHS CISA Rapid COVID Solution Development - To create the CRA (Commercial Route Assistance) App in 2020 during COVID-19 with Idaho National Labs to expediting commercial vehicles moving during COVID state restrictions and closures.
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State Mitigation Initiative - A multi-state and private sector initiative to support planning and implementing of critical infrastructure projects with industry...
https://www.ahcusa.org/mitigation-initiative.html
Coss-Sector, Cross Functional Initiatives
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The SISE-net Initiative - A planning initiative to connect industry and state government operations centers during disasters to synch situational awareness on a variety of uses cases in response situational awareness, damage assessments, recovery, etc...
https://www.ahcusa.org/sisenet.html• The
Infrastructure Mitigation Initiative (2023) to support state hazards mitigation efforts through integrated infrastructure planning, training and coordinated grant projects.
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MS TEAMS Integration Initiative designed to address the private sector’s desire to reduce emails and portals during disasters and simplify user access to the SISE by leveraging MS TEAM and SISE credentials:
https://www.ahcusa.org/ms-teams-integration.html•
The Cross-Sector Exercises Initiative designed to increase disaster communications and coordination between multiple industry sectors and state operations centers on six topics areas:
https://www.ahcusa.org/cross-sector-exercises.html• The
ENDEAVOR Model Planning Initiative - A legal framework that enables state and local emergency managers to partner with private sector infrastructure owners on planning, response, recovery, and mitigation after any disaster or disruption:
https://www.ahcusa.org/endeavor-model.html• The
SISE-net Operational Information Sharing Hub Initiative was designed to synchronize operational situational awareness information between industry and state government people and systems on specific topics to streamline operational coordination and communication during disasters to reduce delays and save lives:
https://www.ahcusa.org/sise-net-information-hub.html