AHEN EP 64 ROLE OF SATELLITES IN DISASTER COMMUNICATIONS

Tom Moran and Tim Karney of the All Hazards Consortium explore future trends in Disaster Resilience and Business Continuity.

Lee Williams of Plum Laboratories discusses new approaches to ensuring continuity of communications during outages or enabling access to remote teams in areas where cellular communications are limited.

Dr. Nicole Lurie, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discusses the challenges of preventing, responding to, and recovering from adverse health effects caused by disasters and widespread diseases.

Sean Murphy, the CEO of Lootok, LTD discusses new approaches to risk management and how to develop an effective approach to business continuity.

John Murphy, the Chief Operating Officer of the National Weather Service explains the new Weather Ready Nation Initiative which is designed to help citizens, communities, and businesses prepare for, and mitigate weather related disasters.

Karen Duham-Aguilera, the Director of Contingency Operations and Office of Homeland Security, Headquarters, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers explains the Corps' efforts to assist Federal, state and local emergency management and response organizations with mitigation, planning, training, and exercises necessary, to provide capabilities to respond to any emergency or disaster.

Dr. Mark Keim of DisasterDoc explains why rescue efforts in disasters are almost always "too little, too late," and presents ways that individuals and communities can reduce fatalities in disasters.

Tony Bardo of Hughes Network Systems explains the role of satellites in ensuring availability and mobility of disaster communications

Jennifer Helgeson, an economist in the Applied Economics Office of the Engineering Laboratory at NIST explains the Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems. 

Harriet Tregoning, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Community Planning and Development at HUD discusses the recent $1Billion awards from the  National Disaster Resilience Competition.