WHAT: Yellow Command 2016, part of Urban Shield 2016, will bring together San Francisco Bay Area jurisdictions, as well as Los Angeles City and Los Angeles County as mutual aid support, to exercise and evaluate the Regional Catastrophic Earthquake Logistics Response Plan for the Bay Area. This year’s scenario simulates the Bay Area’s response to a major earthquake, 72 hours after impact, coupled with a cyber-attack on local government. Yellow Command’s simulated response plan includes a functional exercise testing operational coordination, full-scale activation of Commodity Points of Distribution (C-POD) sites, response capabilities for restoration of disrupted water systems, and protection capabilities against cyber-attacks.
Media are invited to view the real-time threat awareness landscape from select participating Emergency Operations Centers (EOC). This will provide the unique opportunity to see all that goes in to disaster response, and a firsthand explanation of Haystax’s cloud-based California Common Operating Picture (Cal COP) for Threat Awareness, used by the Bay Area UASI to provide risk analysis and risk management capabilities.
WHO:
On site in EOCs
Craig Dziedzic, General Manager, Bay Area UASI
Gregory Ahern, Sheriff, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
Chriss Knisley, President, Haystax Technology
Anne Kronenberg, Executive Director, San Francisco Department of Emergency Management
Tya Modeste, Deputy, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
Available for Phone Interviews Prior to Yellow Command
Corinne Bartshire, Yellow Command Exercise Director; Bay Area UASI
WHEN:
September 8, 2016 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. PT
WHERE:
Alameda County EOC
4985 Broder Boulevard
Dublin, CA 94568
San Francisco EOC
1011 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
REGISTER: Please email haystaxpr@rhstrategic.com.
WHY: Yellow Command provides a unique opportunity to activate multiple EOCs in an effort to determine how to best prioritize the distribution of resources—like food and water—to affected areas following a major disaster like an earthquake, coupled with a cyber-attack. Used alongside other tools, Cal COP provides a platform for local Bay Area jurisdictions and the various EOCs to share a common operating picture. This is one of the few times Community Points of Distribution (C-POD) are being practiced in the state of California, offering officials a good look at how effective this tactic is and how successful the overall Regional Catastrophic Earthquake Logistics Response Plan for the Bay Area performs.
About Yellow Command
Yellow Command is an annual exercise opportunity for EOCs throughout the Bay Area to activate and collaborate, as will be necessary in a catastrophic incident with regional impacts. Each year, Yellow Command participants make improvements based on prior exercise After Action Reports and regional gaps and recommendations reports. Exercising at least one of the Bay Area’s eight functional Regional Catastrophic Earthquake Plans through this exercise is a component of the Bay Area’s Regional Catastrophic Planning Grant Program (RCPGP) Sustainment Plan. This year, the Bay Area has chosen to exercise the Regional Catastrophic Earthquake Logistics Response Plan.
About Haystax Technology
Haystax Technology’s mission is to give decision-makers the advanced analytical and risk-management tools they need to prevent, protect against and respond to a wide array of threats to their most critical systems, facilities and people. Every day, some 50 million people and 100,000 assets are protected by organizations using our security analytics platform, ranging from local and state agencies and major urban areas, to large commercial enterprises and top federal government agencies. Haystax Technology is headquartered in McLean, Virginia. For more information about Haystax, visit www.haystax.com/technology or follow us on Twitter @haystaxtech.