Homeland Security

Anti-Terrorism and Threat Assessment

KIPP teams with key experts in terrorism and all-hazards threat assessments for both public and private sector concerns, to include critical infrastructure protection and business continuity planning.  Deliverables can include written reports, presentations, training, scenario-based planning and executive wargaming, and even full field exercises. KIPP also provides much needed intelligence integration services to support anti-terrorism and threat assessment decision makers and managers, whether in how to develop such a program or refining an existing architecture.

Business Continuity Planning

We have collectively learned from a history of major disasters, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Hurricane Andrew through the terrorist attacks of September 11^th, 2001, nothing replaces planning and preparedness to ensure business continuity.  Those businesses that don’t prepare too often fail. While much business continuity planning deals primarily with the direct effects of a disaster, such as a flood, earthquake, fire, major terrorist attack, supply chain interruption or major storm, KIPP brings in various subject matter experts in scenario planning using a broad approach that fully appreciates the macro or indirect effects.  KIPP appreciates what so many businesses and entire industries experienced in the fallout of the 9-11 attacks.  KIPP’s deliverables include written assessments, training courses, tabletop exercises, practical application or field exercises, and executive wargaming, along with consultative support.

Contingency Planning and Emergency Preparedness

KIPP principals and associates have been involved with a long history contingency planning and emergency preparedness activities, from operational planning teams.  KIPP brings in various subject matter experts in scenario planning along with a broad approach that fully appreciates the macro or indirect effects, such as what so many businesses and entire industries experienced in the fallout of the 9-11 attacks.  KIPP’s deliverable's include written assessments, training courses, tabletop and practical application or field exercises, and executive wargaming, along with consultative support.

Terrorism Surveillance Detection

Originally developed for a high profile national security facility, KIPP and Ascendancy Strategic Consulting have developed a training course that amalgamates best practices in surveillance detection by having participants comprehensively understand detecting such terrorism intelligence collection activities.  This highly interactive, hands-on one-day training event is aimed at supervisors, managers and other personnel responsible for site security, counterintelligence, law enforcement or investigations.  Terrorism Surveillance Detection is a three part building block program that starts with learning terrorism pre-operational intelligence gathering and surveillance practices (to include citing real-world examples), then has participants "role playing" terrorists conducting these activities, and finally is capstoned by a thorough review of lessons learned for development of both soft and hard deliverable results for incorporation into their site's anti-terrorism and security or force protection program. Participants are taught "tools" that can be used to not only harden their sites against terrorism surveillance, but also dramatically improve their ability to develop indications and early warning of such threat operations. Terrorism Surveillance Detection training is aimed at critical infrastructure, transportation, public event venues, government or corporate facilities, schools and universities, shopping centers and stores, historic symbols, or just about any site that could potentially be surveyed and attacked by terrorists.

Community Early Warning of Terrorism (CEWT)

Community Early Warning of Terrorism (CEWT) is a three-part program covered in 3-5 days for developing a strong intelligence indications and warning program in communities, whether these are extensive facilities (i.e. military bases, tribal areas, large-scale facilities, etc.), major neighborhood areas, cities, counties or regions.  CEWT's three-parts are best described as students or participants becoming enabled to sequentially:

1) Understand the Terrorists

2) Be the Terrorists

3) Find the Terrorists

Understand Terrorists: Participants initially get a solid understanding of terrorism, terrorist groups and networks, and terrorist planning, intelligence, logistics, financing, structure and operations.  This block of training is oriented towards the threats and terrorist groups that a particular community is realistically facing.

Be the Terrorists:  Participants role-play terrorists and terrorist calls by selecting targets, method of attack, resources and intelligence needed, and then how they will put all this together for conducting threat operation in their community.  This could include individual field work based on client's desired level of interactivity.

Find the Terrorists:  Combining all that the participants have learned, community specific terrorist operational signatures, activities, requirements and transactions are identified.  Then these are synthesized for developing a community specific terrorism intelligence collection plan that provides priority and direction along with indications and warning of these community specific  threat activities.  Often this will include an executive style wargaming session to further identify or validate the intelligence collection plan.