For centuries, America prioritized international diplomacy because, as a young nation, our continued existence depended on it. It is time we recognize what has become axiomatic: the evolving nature of domestic crises jeopardizes our national security, global standing, and collective futures.Â
By law, the Commonwealth of Virginia elects a new Governor every four years, and with the new executive comes a new administration needing to get up to speed quickly on managing the government. In the absence of a standard, effective onboarding process for the new PSHS secretariat, Emergence alum Caitlin Barbieri saw an opportunity to leverage her CHDS education to improve things.
Suddenly thrust into the realm of emergency management with the  onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis compounded by disasters like wildfires, heat domes, and ice storms, Portland, OR-based Metro regional government Strategic and Crisis Communications Manager Kimberlee Ables and her agency responded by operationalizing a Joint Information System.
A key agreement between FEMA and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) had its beginnings at the annual CHDS APEX conference in 2022. It was there that Ella Carlberg, a Swedish CHDS alum and Senior Advisor of Homeland Security Affairs, requested a meeting with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell during MSB’s Director General Charlotte Petri Gornitzka’s upcoming visit to Washington DC.
From emergency management and environmental protection officials to public health and nuclear power industry representatives, more than two dozen students graduated from the Center for Homeland Defense an Security Radiological...
Please join the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) on Wednesday, September 18, as we consider the potential impact of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence...
32 students graduated from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security’s Executive Leader’s Program in a ceremony on Thursday, July 25, at Herrmann Hall at the Naval Postgraduate School in...
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