Providence, RI – CDR Maguire and the Disaster Resistant Communities Group (DRCG) have launched an internet-based active shooter exercise series entitled, The Institutional Shield Exercise Initiative (www.InstitutionalShield.org). This exercise series is designed to provide various organizations the opportunity to test their plans, policies, and procedures for a response to and recovery from an active shooter incident. All exercises are conducted using DRCG’s Online Exercise System or ONX System (www.ONXSystem.com) and are Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)-compliant. The goal of the program is to offer low-cost, high benefit exercises to the community.
The Institutional Shield Exercise Initiative offers ten different exercises for incident response teams to work through. These exercises are focused on five venues: Colleges/Universities, Community Events, Hospitals, Schools, and Workplace. For each venue, there is both an Active Shooter Response and an Active Shooter Consequence Management Tabletop Exercise. The initial round of exercises is slated to run during the month of April. For more information, visit www.InstitutionalShield.org.
About CDR Maguire Inc.
CDR Maguire was founded in Providence, Rhode Island over 75 years ago as a small civil engineering firm. Today, CDR Maguire is a full-service, nationally recognized architectural, engineering, planning, construction management and emergency management organization. Throughout its history, the firm has played an important role in the planning, design and construction of the infrastructure used in our daily life for thousands of clients—from tiny towns to Fortune 500 companies—across the country and around the world.
About the Disaster Resistant Communities Group
The Disaster Resistant Communities Group, based in Tallahassee, Florida, provides a host of disaster planning and preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation services to local government agencies and departments as well as community and faith based organizations. DRCG is an industry leader in the design, development and conduct of internet based HSEEP-compliant exercises.
