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Technology Solutions and Training

ORAU offers customized national security exercise and training solutions for emergency response agencies

Emergency response personnel

When it comes to preparing emergency personnel to respond to natural disasters or acts of terrorism, adequate training and an emphasis on the use of technology are essential components of a coordinated relief effort.

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) offers the technical knowledge, as well as a proven capability to design, develop and deliver training solutions that provide agencies with a customized approach to their readiness needs.

Some recent examples of our technology solutions and training success stories include:

Deepwater Horizon accidentIncident management training put
to test in Gulf of Mexico

DOE and ORAU emergency management personnel traveled to the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to assist incident management teams with response planning.

Nuclear power plant operationsNuclear power producers streamline emergency planning with ORAU

Several of the nation’s largest providers of nuclear energy recently gathered in Raleigh, N.C., for an ORAU Exercise Builder workshop to focus on improving emergency preparedness across their facilities.

Asset Readiness Management System (ARMS)Asset Readiness Management System (ARMS) helps track emergency response exercises and equipment

ORAU emergency management experts developed ARMS, which tracks scheduled exercises and operations and provides managers comprehensive visibility of their teams’ activities and the department’s assets.

CSEPPORAU’s training analysis tool tracks compliance and corrective action at CSEPP sites

ORAU enhanced the scope of functionality and ease of navigation to provide a tool to improve training and exercise effectiveness of the CSEPP sites and its respective community response partners.

ChicagoORISE takes training to a higher standard during Chicago no-notice exercise

ORISE supported a full-scale training event throughout the greater Chicago area to enhance search capabilities for locating threatening radiological material in an urban environment.

Exercise Builder 2008ORAU creates Exercise Builder to help
plan emergency management exercises

ORAU teamed with subject matter experts from DOE's Emergency Management Issues Special Interest Group to devise a computer-based tool used for designing and developing emergency preparedness drills and exercises.

HSEEP TrainingORAU helps revise Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) training

ORAU and the state of California partnered to revise HSEEP training to integrate the latest technology and a new toolkit to be used for exercise scheduling, design, development, conduct, evaluation and improvement planning.

Incident Command System TrainingORAU implements Incident Command System (ICS) training

ORAU planners teamed with Energy Management Services International (EMSI) to institute ICS training for DOE federal team leaders and response assets to enhance their ability to integrate into a incident or unified command setup.

WeB-MEDISORAU develops CSEPP WeB-MEDIS
patient tracking system for DHS

ORAU designed and developed WeB-MEDIS—a Web-based patient tracking system designed to allow emergency responders to input, share and track patient data from the field using a personal digital assistant (PDA).

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