HOMELAND
SECURITY
Community
Information Networking
Anti-Terrorism
and Threat Assessment
Business
Continuity Planning
Contingency
Planning and Emergency Preparedness
Terrorism Surveillance Detection
Community
Early Warning of Terrorism
Infrastructure Liaison Officer
STRATEGIC RISK
MANAGEMENT
Community Information Networking
Community Information Networking (CIN) provides the critical intelligence tools for highly effective community policing but is oriented toward the threats posed by terrorism and terrorist groups is designed in order to develop indications and warnings of potential threats and suspicious behavior. CIN is a benchmark human information networking system involving training and management that focuses on organizations with jurisdictional authority and a responsibility for public safety.
CIN is designed for law enforcement, fire, health, intelligence specialists, and investigators who need to effectively network within their community or key segments of that community.. It is not a program of developing or using confidential informants or spies, but instead community-oriented networking with people like the best practices often found in business, industry and small-town policing. CIN addresses many of the domestic “human intelligence” shortcomings found in the best selling 2004 9-11 Commission Report. It is an integrated, and very much interagency and multi-disciplinary, approach that fits into the larger Homeland Security intelligence architecture providing that crucial human intelligence input from the local community, noted as tragically lacking in the past. Currently, CIN is taught in blocks of 8 or12 hours, and covers topics that include training in cross-cultural communications, behavior assessment, detecting deception, transnational terrorist networks and support, community information flows, conversational intelligence skills and incorporates scenario-based ‘wargaming’ for practical application.
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
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 deliverables 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 surveilled 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 cells by selecting targets, method of attack, resources and intelligence needed, and then how they will put all this together for conducting threat operations 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.
© KIPP. All Rights Reserved.