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Exercises and Planning

Success Stories

Because of our extensive experience in the national security and emergency management arenas, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is often involved in the development of exercise policies, procedures, plans and guidelines that ensure a consistent, effective response effort.

Our timely, solutions-oriented, operational advice and assistance has been recognized by our customers across the country, whether the situation requires expertise in specialized training or real-time response to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction or terrorism.

Some recent examples of our exercise and planning support success stories include:

Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) Critical Infrastructure Exercise Program at Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam-08 was a full-scale exercise that aided BOR’s efforts to enhance security of the dam.

Diablo Bravo 2008

ORAU planned, coordinated, and conducted one of the largest nuclear accident/incident exercises for the National Nuclear Security Administration in recent years.

Emergency Management Issues Special Interest Group (EMI SIG)

For more than 20 years, ORAU has managed the Emergency Management Issues Special Interest Group (EMI SIG), which fosters the exchange of information, ideas, resources and products to support the DOE/NNSA emergency management community.

Golden Guardian 2008

Our national security and emergency management experts were involved with planning Golden Guardian 2008—the nation’s largest annual exercise that tests the readiness of first responders and emergency managers at federal, state and local levels.

Joint Information Center (JIC)

ORAU has developed a "JIC in a Box" tool to assist public information officials in determining their mobile communication capabilities.

National Incident Management System (NIMS)

Our expertise in training, exercise planning and management is helping us to support the state of California in its efforts to integrate NIMS throughout its emergency exercise design and execution processes.

"No-Notice" Exercise (NNX)

We administered a "no-notice" exercise program for DOE to assess the readiness of radiological emergency response assets and to validate existings plans, policies and procedures.

Top Officials 4 (TOPOFF 4)

ORAU’s national security experts were extensively involved in planning and assisting in the response to this fourth Congressionally-mandated, premiere terrorism preparedness exercise.

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