Page 7 - Hazard Reduction News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That have capabilityies, we want to address that life safety immediate response, communications evacuation and sheltering. Thats pretty much something youre going to need to do in a lot of different events. This is our idea that grant dollars have build a lot of capability are looking at where do we need to put more emphasis. Our first work with dot is looking at training capabilities, we want to make sure Senior Executives in the fire service have the latest. But also looking into the Grant Programs and again as we see these threats emerging, because this is dual use, we do have capability, w...

Humanitarian basis, but could you talk about the effect it could have if we were to actually lift the embargo . It will have i believe a tremendous impact on our ability to sell products and greatly increase the amount of products that were currently selling to cuba. Again right now you are looking at about 300 million worth. Again, the study by texas a m and American Farm bureau believe that formalized relations and lifting of the trade restrictions, that number could be in excess of 1 million. Illion. Billion. What this would also mean to the cuban people with the ability to purchase agricul...

Because it got wiped out. We need to move beyond that. We have to look at not just Building Back to what we always looked at cost benefit analysis and make investments. This gives us the ability to move beyond just looking at one set of criteria. It seems that your mitigation effort has to be focused on the actual hazard. In this budget youre looking at additional funds for Hazard Mitigation but i would certainly want to know that is based on the actual hazard itself and mitigate both the hazard and longterm cost for the federal government and the locality. And that has been the criteria for d...

And maintaining old systems that we think we can do a better job by modernizing the system and reducing our costs. In many cases we think we can have substantial reductions by upgrading to newer systems than to pay legacy costs. This becomes a Cyber Security concern as well. When you have systems running on old, old systems including the fact that microsoft is no longer supporting serving 2003, but your systems are built on that, if youre not upgrading them youre going to increase your signer vulnerabilities. Weve done a lot of work on that end. We were not a poster child at all for that. We c...

To understand what their side of the equation is. And to be honest with you, some of the things they have done arent really clear today. So you know we always get in a debate about whether we should continue mill to mill if were unhappy with the things theyre doing. Im a proponent of continuing to take some risks there because there is benefit in us continuing to have dialogue, to try to establish those types of frameworks that allow us to communicate with each other in crisis. Weve had some good work with the prc lately of building some confidence Building Measures that allow us to understand...