Over 1,000 Stakeholders Join New Emergency Management Network Championed by the Port Authority of NY & NJ
MRN participants come from 325 companies in the private sector – ranging from finance, media, healthcare, communications, pharmaceutical, legal, critical infrastructure, insurance, real estate —and over 60 public sector organizations, including transportation, emergency management, public health, defense, and public safety. Through the MRN program, members are directly collaborating on preparedness, response and recovery activities in response to current and potential threats.
Whether it is another Superstorm Sandy, terrorist attack, infectious disease outbreak or any one of the lesser emergencies that occur more regularly, the MRN is enabling companies, government agencies and NGOs to increase resilience and address these threats.
The Metropolitan Resilience Network reflects an innovative government agency and university collaboration, embodying the next wave in public-private partnership that is proving to be a global prototype for cities worldwide.
The program is championed and funded by the
"The MRN is essential for its unique capacity for both 24/7 situational awareness and public-private collaboration," explained
The program was developed and is hosted by the
"Through the MRN, members can share a common operating picture of what is happening around us in the region on a 24/7 basis through real-time information feeds," said
The Metropolitan Resilience Network has developed two key capabilities to help organizations build resilience and prepare for threats:
- 24/7 Situational Awareness Platform with Crisis Dashboards when Needed — delivered through a unique technology platform which provides a common operating picture for all parties to monitor what is happening in the region from day-to-day to crisis situations. When a major incident occurs, new dashboards are added giving members real time information from many sources.
Joint Communications & Collaboration Capacity — enabling organizations to cooperate with others on shared threats before, during and after incidents. This collaboration includes web forums, joint exercises, face-to-face meetings, best practice sharing, benchmarking, quick response surveys, file sharing and other online collaboration.
The MRN's cloud-based platform delivers 24/7 Situational Awareness, providing timely information on threats and their impacts on the surrounding environment. Current and evolving threats include severe weather (hurricanes, nor'easters, heat waves, etc.), infectious disease, terrorism, active shooters, cyber security, transportation disruptions, and others. These threats are monitored on the MRN platform via information flows from vetted government and other trusted sources with alerts to members as appropriate through dedicated online Dashboards and "Smart Alerts" via email and text as necessary.
In addition to providing robust situational awareness, the MRN enables members to collaborate on preparedness, response and recovery activities — either business-to-business or business-to-government in response to current and emerging threats.
"The MRN provides a wide array of information in different forums from 24/7/365 information (very promptly before/following event that is very useful) to the experts at the
The MRN's innovative situational awareness platform is built upon a unique technology (TX360) developed by Swan Island Networks, a leading technology firm focused on advancing situational awareness and business intelligence.
"Using our TX360 Situational Awareness cloud platform, INTERCEP staff have published 100's of different Dashboards, monitoring a worldwide, regional and NYC specific set of information feeds," said
For more information about joining the MRN, NYU Tandon or the TX360 platform, please contact INTERCEP or Swan Island Networks.
About the MRN and the
NYU INTERCEP is dedicated to forwarding collaboration on shared risks among businesses, governments and the NGO community. The Center hosts the Metropolitan Resilience Network focused on the metro
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