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VDEM Region 4 receives ‘Response Program of the Year’ award at VEMS

VDEM (Virgina Department of Emergency Management)

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) Region 4 team and response partners received the Response Program of the Year award at the 2023 Virginia Emergency Management Symposium (VEMS). The SW Virginia Communications Cache and the SW Virginia Incident Management Team also deployed in support of the incident.

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ARPA SLFRF Update: Interim Final Rule Expands Eligible Uses

Center for Community Progress

Natural Disaster Response and Mitigation: No expenditure limits. Surface Transportation and CDBG: Combined expenditure limits. Expenditure: For funds obligated to provide emergency relief from natural disasters, the expenditure deadline is December 31, 2026. What are the expenditure limits?

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Google Cloud launches new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies improve climate resilience

Google Public Sector

With these data-driven insights, public sector agencies and researchers can improve their response time to climate disasters, make more accurate predictions, and implement disaster-response plans with greater confidence.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

b) Technological disasters, caused by malfunction or unintended consequences of technology. Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) c) Social disasters, including crowd crushes, riots and strikes among the providers of critical infrastructure. (d) Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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Creating real-time flood alerts with the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

“Recently, we have seen an unprecedented level of rainfall and extreme weather events,” said Reyes Jiménez, director of comprehensive community risk management of Panama’s National Civil Protection System ( SINAPROC ). It wirelessly connects devices to the Internet and manages communication between end-node devices and network gateways.

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AWS selects 13 startups to innovate public safety solutions through the GovTech Accelerator

AWS Public Sector Blog

Learn about the startups and the problems they aim to solve: 10-8 Systems Mission Viejo, CA 10-8 Systems offers advanced, cloud-native computer aided dispatch (CAD) and records management software (RMS) for law enforcement, emergency services, fire, and private security. Austin, TX Revir Technologies, Inc.,