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EIS Council hosts national and international collaboration on resilience and whole community restoration and response planning, addressing severe, national and global scale hazards to lifeline infrastructures.

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EIS Council Updates

EIS, DTRA, and SARA Whitepaper Released EIS Council and SARA release white paper: Electromagnetic Black Sky Responses of Power and Control Equipment 01/23/2020
EIS Summit XI Bicontinental Announcement The Eleventh Annual World Summit of Infrastructure Security

June 24-25, 2020
London, UK

June 29- July 1, 2020
Tel Aviv, Israel

01/23/2020
EIS Council Announces New of Board of Advisors Members EIS Council Announces New of Board of Advisors Members
07/17/2018
EPRO Electric Subsector Executive Session - Israel Resilience Lessons-Learned for Cyber, EMP and other Black Sky hazards in a Complex Strategic Setting 01/16/2018
EPRO Handbook III Summary Released EPRO Handbook II Executive is now available
GAO Releases New Report GAO has released a new report on Critical Infrastructure Protection.
New FEMA National Response Framework Supported by EIS Council FEMA Issues U.S. National Response Framework Rewrite Supported by EIS Council, Creating a New Cross-Sector Emergency Management Structure
EPRO Sector Executive Committee Meeting Next Steps in Building Coordinated, Multi-Sector Black Sky Resilience
Earth EX 2020
September 1, 2020

The fourth annual Emergency All-sector Response Transnational Hazard Exercise

Registration will be available soon, more details to follow shortly.

World News

12/18/2019 | U.S. Senate | Sen. Johnson Statement on Bipartisan HSGAC EMP, GMD Legislation in NDAA
03/26/2019 | White House | Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses
03/30/2018 | Wall Street Journal | U.S. officials warned Thursday that an ongoing Russian cyber attack has comprised smaller businesses that serve critical infrastructure, including the electric grid and nuclear power plants.
03/29/2018 | ZD Net | Under the new legislation, the minister will have a 'last resort' power to direct electricity, gas, ports, and water entities to 'do or not do a certain thing' to mitigate national security risks.
02/28/2018 | GreenTech Media | The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response will support the “expanded national security responsibilities” assigned to the DOE.
02/15/2018 | DOE Forms New Office | The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response will support the “expanded national security responsibilities” assigned to the DOE.
02/15/2018 | Asia Times | North Korea’s decision to stage a massive display of military might the day prior to the opening of the 2018 Winter Olympics was shocking but unsurprising.
01/16/2018 | Wall Street Journal | As coal and nuclear power plants around the U.S. close due to competitive pressures, the number of people employed in making electricity is shrinking.
12/02/2017 | WTHR | 2017 Hurricane Season Finally Ends. How bad was it? Will the future bring worse?
11/27/2017 | Philadelphia Inquirer | Hurricane Maria's closure of Baxter International disrupts supply chain for life critical medical supplies.
09/03/2017 | CNN | North Korea claims they have developed a Hydrogen bomb which could be used "at high altitudes for a super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack."
08/23/2017 | DOE | On August 23, 2017 the US Department of Energy released a report urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Agency (FERC) to take quick action to address threats to the electric grid and resiliency.

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EIS Summit XI Bicontinental

6/24-25; 6/29-7/1, 2020 | Royal Society of Arts, London / Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv