HSPI Presentation. Tuesday, Dec 18th. Complex Catastrophes: Improving Resilience of the Nation's Electric Grid

Complex Catastrophes: Improving Resilience of the Nation's Electric Grid 

On Tuesday, December 18th, 2012, HSPI will host an event as part of the Capstone Series on Cyber Strategy, featuring The Honorable Paul Stockton, Assistant Secretary for Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs. Assistant Secretary Stockton will discuss how to best address vulnerabilities of the electric power grid from physical and cyber threats. 

We hope you will join us for this important event.  

  

Featured Speaker:

 

The Honorable Paul Stockton, Assistant Secretary for Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense

Moderated By:   

 

 Frank J. Cilluffo
 Director,
Homeland Security Policy Institute; 

Co-Director, 

Cyber Center for National and Economic Security   

    

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
9:00 am until 10:30 am 

  

 

The George Washington University

Elliott School of International Affairs

Seventh Floor | City View Room

1957 E Street, NW

Washington, DC 20052 | Map It

This event can also be seen online here

  

  

   

   

Speaker Biography:  

   

  

Paul N. Stockton was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs on April 28, 2009, and was confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 2009. In this position, he is responsible for supervising the Department of Defense's homeland defense activities (including Defense Critical Infrastructure Protection and other mission assurance efforts), defense support of civil authorities, domestic crisis management, and Western Hemisphere security matters.

  

Assistant Secretary Stockton received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College Summa Cum Laude in 1976, and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1986. From 1986-1989, Assistant Secretary Stockton served as legislative assistant to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, advising the senator on defense, intelligence, and counter-narcotics policy, and serving as the Senator's personal representative to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  From 1989 - 1990, Assistant Secretary Stockton was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. During his graduate studies at Harvard, he served as a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.  

  

Assistant Secretary Stockton joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in August 1990 as assistant professor in the Department of National Security Affairs. From 1995 until 2000, he served as Director of the Center for Civil-Military Relations, assisting over 80 nations to strengthen democratic control over their security forces and deepen security cooperation with the United States. In 2000, he founded and served as the acting dean of the School of International Graduate Studies. He was appointed Associate Provost for Institutional Development in 2001. From 2002 - 2006, Assistant Secretary Stockton established and served as Director of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, where he helped develop curricula to strengthen U. S. all-hazards preparedness at local, state, and Federal levels.  

Prior to his confirmation, Assistant Secretary Stockton was a senior research scholar at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. His research focused on how United States security institutions respond to changes in the threat (including the rise of terrorism), and on the interaction of Congress and the Executive branch in restructuring national security budgets, policies, and institutional arrangements.

Assistant Secretary Stockton is co-editor of Homeland Security, a graduate text to be published by Oxford University Press. He served on the editorial review board of Homeland Security Affairs, a quarterly journal he helped establish in 2005. His research has appeared in Political Science Quarterly, International Security, and Strategic Survey. He is co-editor of Reconstituting America's Defense: America's New National Security Strategy (1992). He has also published an Adelphi Paper and has contributed chapters to a number of books. 

HSPI's Capstone Series on Cyber Strategy  highlights distinguished leaders in the cyber domain and their thinking on its ever-evolving challenges to our national and economic security.  

DHS\FEMA: Youth Preparedness Council

      

Proactive Approach to Preparedness: Getting Ready Younger

Main Content

Release date: 

November 26, 2012

Release Number: 

19

SAN JUAN, PR –If new generations are raised with emergency preparedness awareness as an inherent part of their early education, communities will become smarter and more resilient sooner. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supports this approach since dependable preparedness plans equal a swifter recovery for individuals, local, state and federal governments after a disaster.

“Our communities need to get better prepared to rapidly respond to emergencies and if we reach this younger audience earlier, emergency preparedness will be a familiar subject, but most importantly, they will be ready sooner. Youngsters have a significant influence on their peers and families, which may drive this preparedness message further on,” said FEMA’s Caribbean Area Division Director, Alejandro De La Campa.

For this reason, FEMA established the first Youth Preparedness Council to discuss and promote steps meant to strengthen the nation’s resiliency against all types of disasters. This Council is comprised of 13 youth leaders (ages 13 – 17) from each of FEMA’s 10 regions, which will develop and conclude their emergency preparedness projects in two years.

13-year old Humacao resident, Gabriela Rodriguez-Boria, is FEMA’s Region II Youth Council representative. Puerto Rico is one of the jurisdictions under Region II, which also includes New York, New Jersey and the US Virgin Islands.  With her project, Gabriela seeks opportunities to prepare youngsters to be ready before and after a disaster strikes, making communities in Puerto Rico more emergency resilient through its budding members. She is organizing a Teen Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) of approximately 15-20 students at her school and plans to replicate this program in other schools in neighboring communities, and eventually to all Region II jurisdictions.

The CERT Program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations. Youngsters can involve their schools, neighbors, churches, families and friends in similar initiatives where they can acquire surviving tools for future emergencies. Young minds bring fresh eyes and new perspectives to any preparedness endeavour, therefore FEMA encourages their contribution in emergency planning and readiness for our communities.

There is additional information about the Youth Council at www.citizencorps.gov/getstarted/youth/youthindex. If you are interested in becoming a CERT member, locate the nearest CERT team or check for upcoming training opportunities, visit www.citizencorps.gov/cert. Learn more about emergency preparedness and how to improve your community resiliency to emergency situations by visiting www.fema.gov or www.ready.gov.

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FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards.

Last Updated: 

December 7, 2012 - 11:12

State or Region: 

Region II and Puerto Rico

http://www.fema.gov/news-release/proactive-approach-preparedness-getting-ready-younger