The Readiness & Homeland Security Committee meets with emergency management leaders on Colorado Springs area military installations and with municipal emergency managers to identify needs that SAME sustaining members can meet.

Posts are required to meet with local emergency preparedness officials and identify where their post resources (sustaining members) could help. Any “gaps” in the local plans that the post resources could fill would assist the overall readiness and resiliency of the local authorities. This collaborative process required that Posts have a committee, train in NICS and document their efforts in an EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE REPORT. This effort proved to be predictive as the NRP was revised in 2007 to become the National Response Framework. One of its activities in preparing is to identify gaps in resources that need to be filled.

The Readiness Committee updates sustaining members’ emergency management profiles annually in the June to September timeframe. Pikes Peak Readiness Committee Members are: Bill Beary (NORTHCOM), Brian Kelley (City of Colorado Springs), Bill Bayles (MaxFour) and Raghu Arora (ECC).

The Readiness & Homeland Security Committee will hold at least 2 Committee meetings each year. If you are interested in participating, please contact Bill Bayles at wbayles@maxfour.com.