NOTE: The Deadline for comments is 2/26/2018 [Click Here to read my submission to FERC] Citizens can help secure the grid It is easy to feel helpless down at our level (and by “down at our level” I mean citizens). The electric grid is vulnerable to numerous threats and we know (because the Senate…
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (Retired) InfraGard Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIG) Dupont Summit December 1, 2017 Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, author of H. Res. 762
Thomas Popik: High Consequence Scenarios for North Korean Atmospheric Tests InfraGard Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIGTM) Dupont Summit December 1, 2017 BIO: Thomas Popik Thomas S. Popik, Chairman, President, Director, and co-founder of Foundation for Resilient Societies. Thomas Popik is a Principal Investigator for Resilient Societies, specializing in vulnerability assessment, comparative risk analysis, and economic…
High Altitude Nuclear EMP: Where We Are and How We Got Here Dr. William R. Graham, former Chair, EMP Commission, 2001-2008, 2016-2017 InfraGard Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIGTM) Dupont Summit December 1, 2017 BIO: Dr. William R. Graham
Bruce Walker, Assistant Secretary Department of Energy: Critical Energy Infrastructure (Introduced by Dr. Wally E. Boston, President of the American Public University System) InfraGard Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIGTM) Dupont Summit December 1, 2017 BIO: Bruce Walker, Assistant Secretary Department of Energy
Ambassador James Woolsey speaks at the InfraGard Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIGTM) Dupont Summit on December 1, 2017 BIO: Ambassador James Woolsey
Bipartisan agreement about threats to the electric grid There has been little bipartisan agreement in Congress about anything in the last decade. Healthcare, taxes, the budget – you name it, they disagree on it. There is one glaring exception: The threats to the electric grid from a variety of man-made and natural threats. They all…
GridEx bottom line upfront GridEx is a biennial exercise run by North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The latest iteration, GridEx IV, was held on November 15-16, 2017. Most Americans have never heard of GridEx and didn’t even know it was taking place. If fact, most people don’t really have a clear understanding of what…
Why has so little critical infrastructure protection passed congress? I just don’t get it. I mean, I understand why Congress is struggling on health care and tax reform. The reds and the blues have different opinions and different philosophies and apparently nobody wants to compromise. I get that. It’s the same on a lot…
The EMP Commission’s Untimely Demise The Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack (the “EMP Commission”) was established on October 30, 2000 by Public Law 106–398, Title XIV. It was allowed to “sunset” on September 30, 2017. As of this writing, the EMP Commission’s website is down and their reports…
