Fall 2019 THE CENTER FOR HOMELAND DEFENSE AND SECURITY MAGAZINE APEX NEWS | ALUMNI STORIES | CLASS NOTES | PHOTO ALBUM DIRECTOR’S LETTER Dear Alumni and Friends, This has been a tremendous year for the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) thanks to our amazing students, staff, alumni, and partners. We all take pride in the accomplishments of our alumni as they apply the lessons they learned in the classroom to improve their agencies and organizations. The concept of homeland defense and security is not static—it is constantly evolving and growing. We believe collaboration across agencies is key to success and will enable us to prepare for future threats at the local, state, tribal, territorial, and federal levels. This fall edition of Watermark contains some great examples of alumni implementing their CHDS education. One of the hot topics this year is border security. Read about how CHDS master’s graduate Monica Mapel is supporting DHS-ICE by uncovering a growing trend of immigrants taking advantage of the system by posing as family units or “faux families.” We also chronicle the work of CHDS master’s alumnus Brigadier General Jeffrey Burkett, Vice Director of Domestic Operations for the National Guard Bureau, as he ensures security on multiple fronts—from the Southern border to CBNRE incidents to cyber-attacks. Another topic that generated a lot of national attention this year is the K-12 School Shooting Database, which was developed by CHDS alumni Desmond O’Neill and David Reidman. Upon recognizing a gap in accurate data about “We believe school shootings, they decided to create a public database of such data. It was collaboration across originally done as a project for the Advanced Thinking in Homeland Security (HSx) program. The K-12 SSDB is now trending nationwide and it’s frequently agencies is the key to referenced by researchers and media reports. It was also the main focus of last success and will enable year’s Alumni Professional Exchange (APEX) special presentation. We have added us to prepare for future a third day to APEX 2020. On the first day we will have short “TED Talk” style presentations from alumni on new ideas and approaches to homeland security. threats at the local, Speaking of HSx, in this edition of Watermark, we reflect on the successful state, tribal, territorial, completion of our innovative pilot program that wrapped up earlier this year. We also delve into some of our other educational programs like the unrivaled and federal levels.” Pacific Executive Leaders Program (PELP) and the expanding Emergence — GLEN WOODBURY Program. Emergence has now produced 96 alumni and is truly gaining momentum. Emergence participants develop and implement change initiatives in their organization. Cohort 1902 had a 75% success rate with their projects. Read about four of those alumni and how their ideas are impacting their agencies and the public. CHDS academic programs are reducing our vulnerability to national security threats and catastrophic events in a multitude of ways, but we would never be able to fit them all into one edition of Watermark. We hope you are inspired by the stories we’ve included and thank you all for supporting our mission and sharing the lessons learned with the homeland defense and security community. Truly yours, Glen Woodbury Director, Center for Homeland Defense and Security CONTENTS THIS ISSUE OF WATERMARK Volume 10 • Issue 2 • Fall 2019 02 Regional Alumni Chapters 04 CHDS Alum Represents 9-1-1 Dispatchers in D.C. 06 APEX 2019 in Review 08 CHDS instructor Wins Outstanding Professor Award 10 Protecting the Home Front 12 CHDS Emergence Program Drives Change 13 Emergence Alumna Making a Difference: Interagency Radio Communication 14 Emergence Alumna Making a Difference: Scaling Decontamination Services 15 Emergence Alumna Making a Difference: Sharing Information in the Big Easy 16 Emergence Alumnus Making a Difference: Unified Communication for Effective Change 17 NPS-CHDS Alumna Addresses Faux Families on the Southern Border Herrmann Hall | Photo by Angi English 20 From Thesis Research to Presidential Policy 22 Applying Emergency Response Techniques Watermark the Alumni Magazine is published semi-annually for the to the Opioid Epidemic alumni of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS). 24 Homeland Security 2.0; Views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent It’s Not What You Think the official policy or position of the Naval Postgraduate School, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, 26 PELP Speaker Series Addresses FEMA, CHDS, CHDS alumni or faculty, or the U.S. Government. the Future of Cybersecurity 27 HSx Pilot Program Takes Off Watermark is produced by the staff of the Copyright © 2019 by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security 28 Homeland Security Digital Library Center for Homeland Defense and Security All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including 29 Class Notes with support from CHDS alumni, faculty, and staff. photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, Writers: Patrick Kuhl, Marc Pritchard, without the prior written permission from the Center for Homeland 32 APEX 2019 Photo Album Defense and Security. and Dan O’Connor 35 Alumni Photo Album Designer: Will McCarty ON THE COVER 40 Welcome to the CHDS Family All photos are submitted unless otherwise stated. Garrapata Beach, Photo by Bill Shewchuk. For Comments and Story Ideas: 41 Educational Resources Heather Issvoran Director, Strategic Communications Contract Support for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security [email protected], 831.402.4672 (c) Technical Support/Webmaster/Login: [email protected], 831.272.2437 (PST) FIND CHDS ONLINE www.chds.us npsCHDS npsCHDS npsCHDS WATERMARK FALL 2019 | 1 REGIONAL ALUMNI CHAPTERS CHDS education programs promote collaboration, communication and information sharing among leaders both during and after their CHDS programs. In order to keep in touch and create a national network of homeland security professionals, 21 regional chapters have been established by alumni throughout North America and United States territories. ALUMNI NETWORK CAN WA 10 ME 1 MT ND VT MN 19 17 NH OR WI NY 18 MA ID SD CT MI RI WY PA 20 IA NJ 11 NE OH MD DE NV IL IN 21 2 7 WV DC UT CO VA KS KY CA MO 12 8 NC 3 4 TN OK 14 6 AR 13 SC AZ NM GA AL 9 MS 15 LA 5 TX GU FL 16 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NATIONWIDE NETWORK OF CHDS ALUMNI CHAPTERS. CONTACT CHAPTER COORDINATORS, LISTED ON THE RIGHT. ? INTERESTED IN STARTING A NEW CHAPTER? Send an e-mail to Heather Issvoran at [email protected] 2 | WATERMARK FALL 2019 REGIONAL ALUMNI CHAPTERS 1 OREGON 12 TENNESSEE PORTLAND NASHVILLE Chris Voss Patrick C. Sheehan [email protected] [email protected] 2 CALIFORNIA 13 ALABAMA NORTHERN HUNTSVILLE GREATER BAY AREA Jonathan Gaddy Sara Kay [email protected] [email protected] 14 GEORGIA 3 CALIFORNIA ATLANTA LOS ANGELES Kelly Nadeau Frank Forman [email protected] [email protected] Wendy Smith WASHINGTON D.C. [email protected] CHAPTER 4 CALIFORNIA INLAND EMPIRE 15 FLORIDA David Green NORTHERN [email protected] Ronald Lendvay Jason Lappin [email protected] [email protected] Thomas Guglielmo [email protected] 5 GUAM WESTERN PACIFIC 16 FLORIDA Frank Ishizaki SOUTHERN [email protected] Romeo B. Lavarias [email protected] 6 ARIZONA PHOENIX Deanna Kralick Sylvia Moir [email protected] [email protected] WASHINGTON D.C. 17 NEW YORK CHAPTER 7 COLORADO WESTERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN Patrick O’Flynn Ryan Fields-Spack [email protected] [email protected] 18 NEW YORK 8 NEW MEXICO NORTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE Richard Blatus Angi English [email protected] [email protected] Thomas Richardson [email protected] 9 TEXAS EL PASO 19 MASSACHUSETTS Calvin Shanks NEW ENGLAND NEW YORK NORTHEAST [email protected] CHAPTER Phil McGovern 10 CANADA [email protected] ONTARIO John Dehooge 20 NEW JERSEY MID-ATLANTIC [email protected] Walt Smith 11 OHIO [email protected] DAYTON Robert Giorgio Darren Price [email protected] [email protected] Bruce Robertson 21 WASHINGTON D.C. [email protected] NATIONAL CAPITAL Jeff Payne Samantha Korta [email protected] [email protected] Heather Issvoran COLORADO [email protected] CHAPTER WATERMARK FALL 2019 | 3 Emergency Dispatch Center | Photo courtesy of Unsplash CHDS ALUM REPRESENTS 9-1-1 DISPATCHERS IN D.C. BY PATRICK KUHL . Jeremy DeMar is an excellent D. JEREMY DEMAR public safety dispatchers face, the stress speaker. Not just because he’s they are put under, and the importance Director of Springfield loud and projects his voice Emergency Communications of their work,” Torres shared. Also in Dclearly, but because he has extensive (SEC) in Massachusetts attendance to introduce the bipartisan experience speaking with the public MA1505/1506 bill were U.S. Representatives Ro Khanna during times of crises as an emergency (CA-17), Donna Shalala (FL-27), Federal dispatcher, firefighter, and emergency Communications Commissioner Jessica medical technician. That’s part of the Rosenworcel, and other leading public reason he was selected to represent fellow safety industry experts. public safety telecommunicators at a press insight, “The types of calls we deal with Named Director in December of 2017, conference introducing the 911 Saves Act. can produce vicarious trauma, secondary DeMar has made a concerted effort to Center for Homeland Defense and stress, and episodes of PTSD. On any position SEC as a leader in public safety Security (CHDS) master’s graduate D. given day, you never know what’s going to strategies. Prior to that, he served as Public Jeremy DeMar, Director of Springfield be on the other end of that phone line.” Safety Emergency Communications Emergency Communications (SEC) To rally support for this zero-cost Supervisor for the Rochester (NY) in Massachusetts, was invited to legislative fix, a press conference was held Emergency Communications Department Washington, D.C.