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…
Category: Grid Protection
Dr. William R. Graham: High Altitude Nuclear EMP
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: Critical Energy Infrastructure
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 on Electromagnetic Pulse
Ambassador James Woolsey speaks at the InfraGard Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIGTM) Dupont Summit on December 1, 2017 BIO: Ambassador James Woolsey
Threats to the Electric Grid and the Sense of Congress
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: Is This Exercise Enough to Protect Critical Infrastructures?
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…
Critical Infrastructure Protection – Two Decades of Failure
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…
EMP Commission Reports, Testimony and Articles
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…
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry: Why Isn’t the Government Listening to Him?
Why we should listen to Dr. Peter Vincent Pry Dr. Peter Vincent Pry has impressive credentials. He served for 10 years with the as an Intelligence Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency responsible for analyzing Soviet and Russian nuclear strategy. He served on the staff of the on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), and…
House Hearing: North Korea Threat – October 12, 2017
C-SPAN October 12, 2017. 1 Hour, 57 Minutes. Hearing before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency. North Korea Threat Foreign policy analysts testified at a hearing to on the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear program and other threats including the potential for electromagnetic pulse attacks. Speakers included a former homeland…