Please join the InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance (INCMA) for the second event in the 2012 Lecture Series!

Who: InfraGard Nations Capital Members Alliance members and guests (this meeting is open to the public)

What: Threats to the Energy Sector - Electromagentic Pulse (EMP)

When: Wed., February 8th from 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Light fare will be provided. The program will not start until 5:45pm, allowing for arrival, check-in, and refreshments.

Where: CSC, 15000 Conference Center Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151

Why: The functioning of our society and economy is critically dependent upon the availability of electricity; so much so, in fact, that all other critical infrastructure sectors rely on electric power. Continued electricity is needed for sustaining water supplies, production and distribution of food, conducting banking and financial transactions, transportation, and communication. It's hard to imagine one area that would not be impacted by a loss of electricity. Because of the continued interconnection and interdependency of the energy sector with other sectors, we are particulary vulnerable to threats that could interrupt our electric supply. EMP represents such a threat. An electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, can be produced by natural events, like a severe solar storm, or a malicious act, like a high-altitude nuclear burst. In either scenario, the high-intensity burst of electromagentic energy from an EMP has the potential to cause the functional collapse of our eletrical supply and, with it, the cascading compromise of other critical infrastructure sectors.

Mr. David P. Hunt, CRA, Inc., and Mr. Chuck Manto, Instant Access Networks, LLC, will discuss EMPs and their threat to the energy sector. Their bios are provided below.

Directions:

CSC is located south of Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, VA. Directions are as follows:

Take I-66 west to exit 53, Route 28. Take Route 28 north for approximately 1 1/2 miles. Take exit for Westfields Blvd, heading west. Take the first right onto Stonecroft Blvd. Turn left onto Conference Center Drive. CSC (15000 Conference Center Drive) will be on your left. Large, red "CSC" letters are on the roof line of the building. The sign as you turn into the parking area reads "Washington Technology Park." Drive past the front of the building and follow signs for "Conference Center Visitor Parking." Proceed to the entrance marked "Washington Technology Park Conference Center."

There should be ample parking in the immediate area of the conference center. However, you may also park in the rear of the building or in the visitor spots (of which there are only a few) directly in front of the building.

We hope you are able to join us and we look forward to seeing you! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact one of us.

Regards,

Alex Grohmann, INCMA, VP for Programs and Events

alex_grohmann@yahoo.com

Paul Pattak, INCMA, President

paulbyronpattak@hotmail.com

Kara D. Sidener, FBI-WFO, InfraGard Coordinator

kara.d.sidener@infragard.org

Dave Hunt has 25 years of progressive experience in all phases of emergency management-from the development of comprehensive plans to the direction of emergency response. His response experience includes law enforcement, terrorism response, explosives investigation, fire and arson investigation, hazardous materials response, and emergency medical response. He was involved in developing the threat, risk, and capability assessments for the Federal responder grant programs and has conducted technical assistance (TA) planning projects for FEMA and its predecessor agencies with all 50 States and U.S. Territories. Over the past 14 years, his work has addressed all phases of disaster response, and he has led multiple large-scale programs to develop national guidance for strategic planning, as well as many of FEMA's Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) annexes. In addition, he has developed intelligence fusion center guidance, and mitigation, response, continuity of operations planning and recovery planning on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Mr. Hunt assisted with the development and facilitation of the Congressional Caucus Severe Space Weather Threats to the Electrical Grid exercise in October, 2011, in conjunction with the National Defense University. He also worked with Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and the Maryland Emergency Management Agency on an Electromagnetic Pulse and Severe Space Weather Seminar. Mr. Hunt has also worked with the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, CO in the development of planning guidance and training materials for first responders.

Mr. Hunt recently managed Improvised Nuclear Device response planning for FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate, leading a large team including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Virginia Tech's Center for Technology Security and Policy. CRA has conducted several IND projects across the nation, including pre-event public education, evacuation planning and calculating the impacts to a community from detonation of an improvised nuclear device. He is supporting the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the development of their Energy Assurance Plans.

He has also supported the development of several national-level planning guides, including 12 annexes to FEMA's CPG to support State, Territorial, tribal, and local emergency planners. He has facilitated nationwide panels of stakeholders from Federal, State, local, and private-sector entities. Other projects have involved the development of national databases, GIS applications, emergency public information tools, and resources for logistics management. Mr. Hunt has also designed and supported more than 160 exercises with Federal, State, and local governments and has conducted training for the FBI, the Justice Department, multiple branches of the military, DHS, FEMA, and many States in support of homeland security preparedness efforts. He was involved in the development of the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program.

Mr. Hunt began his support to the Federal Government in 1993 as an instructor with FEMA's U.S. Fire Administration. In 1996, he supported the development of the first emergency response to terrorism courses for the National Fire Academy, as well as delivery of train-the trainer programs in the 150 largest metropolitan areas. In 1998, he began work on the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Preparedness Exercise Program, leading one of its exercise delivery teams. For the 1999-2004 nationwide grant programs, he developed the threat assessment tool with the FBI and participated in developing the risk and capability assessments used by OSLDPS and ODP. He was also involved in the development of the HSEEP exercise process and has worked with most of the UASI regions, providing a broad perspective on the disaster response planning needs across the Nation.

Chuck Manto is leading the development of nationwide disaster preparedness through comprehensive planning for a nationwide collapse of critical infrastructure through the National Defense University (NDU), state and local government, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DoD), Congress, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the White House.

Mr. Manto has an extensive background in electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that includes: creation of EMP protected energy systems: PV solar system, wind turbine system, diesel generator; created EMP protected rooms inserted into ISO cargo containers and road certified mobile command centers (See www.stop-EMP.com); created civilian EMP rating system and EMP assessment program using probabilistic model for complex environments (networks, factories, data centers, dispersed facilities); creating funding and development system for cash constrained hospitals, universities and governments (Business Continuity Parks™ and Business Continuity Networks™); won 5 patents with others pending on EMP shielding and protection techniques; initiated or developed EMP and solar storm emergency management programs in conjunction with the National Defense University, NorthCOM, and their federal agency counterparts, state agencies such as the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL), counties and their regional organizations, and other local governments, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) and the Pennsylvania Energy Office.

Mr. Manto founded the InfraGard National EMP special interest group (SIG) and serves as its volunteer national manager; presented EMP issues to the board of the National Foreign Trade Council and their membership; and presented to various local and state associations of InfraGard, ASIS, Public Technology Institute and other government and private sector organizations.

Mr. Manto is the CEO of the Maryland-based company Instant Access Networks, LLC (IAN), founded in 2003; and founder and owner of Virginia-based company Freetech, LLC, founded in 1998. By working with universities to develop related technology, CEOs, and legislative and executive branch members at the federal, state and local level, Mr. Manto created awareness of the problem and succeeded in leading or supporting the following: the first planning exercises for nationwide infrastructure collapse with NDU and MEMA; the development of the first FBI/InfraGard effort to focus on nationwide power failure; formal support of the National Foreign Trade Council; created EMP protected critical infrastructure product line including EMP protected rooms and shelters for communications, communications and energy systems; developed Business Continuity Parks™ concepts for community resilience.

Mr. Manto's education includes enlistment in the U.S. Army (1972-1974), honor graduate in the U.S. Army Military Police School, Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, member of the Psi Chi Honor Society (1975) and Master of Arts (MA) in Medieval History and Patristics (1979).