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Managing Risk in a Complex World

Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Demonstrated Success:

  • DHS selected IEM to develop and launch its chemical sector Security Awareness Training, a Web-based interactive program to help increase security awareness among employees in chemical facilities across the U.S.
  • IEM created a 3-D visualization scenario of at-risk buildings in Salt Lake City, Utah, which was used for planning, evaluating, and visualizing security measures and methodologies in preventing and mitigating terrorist attacks.
  • IEM is supporting the Port of Los Angeles with the DHS Port Security Grant Program (PSGP), including risk-based assessments to help port decision-makers allocate resources where they will have the most impact on prevention and protection from potential IED attacks and other threats. IEM has helped the Port obtain more than $22 million in PSGP funds in the last three years. 
  • The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) contracted with IEM to quantify the effectiveness of various Chemical/Biological (CB) Defense Systems to help guide investment decisions.
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) asked IEM to develop an anthrax model to determine the relative effect of various preventive and response actions on the number of casualties during a release.
  • IEM developed D2-Puff™, an advanced PC-based hazard prediction model for emergency planning and response to incidents involving chemical weapons. D2-Puff technology is being integrated into DoD's Joint Effects Model (JEM) which will be the single weapons of mass destruction (WMD) prediction and tracking model used by the military and also available to civilian protection agencies.