Career Development and the Future of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

I recently wrote about the emerging Community of Professionals for Homeland Security and Emergency Management in Domestic Preparedness Journal. The article is available at my website or on the DomPrep website. http://www.domesticpreparedness.com/Training/

Last week, the annual meeting for The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) was a great example of this professional development paradigm.

TISP is a forum for engineers to be engaged with other professionals in this national security issue.

I'm convinced that engineers and law enforcement professionals should be collaborating on critical infrastructure protection and resilience.

Albert Romano, a Michael Baker., Jr, Inc. Senior VP is the new Chairman of TISP taking over from Ed Hecker of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The engineering community must be more involved in the public policy development for critical infrastructure resilience and there should be more engineering influence in the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection.

The efforts of TISP and the ASCE Guiding principles that I wrote about last week are opportunities to evolve the Community of Professionals over the next decade. I'm encouraged that this will happen.

Thanks for checking in.

Dennis

http://www.drs-international.com/