Domestic & Homeland Security
Multi-agency collaboration between agencies is a critical factor to domestic and homeland security success. CAE’s Professional Services team is providing strategic advice and technical expertise to support national preparedness and training. Our team works with client organizations and subject matter experts to define the operational sandbox, conduct threat assessments, and develop analytical and training environments to plan, test, train, and deploy response operations.
The EM-Sim approach
CAE Professional Services offers a structured approach to planning and analyzing strategies for multi-agency collaboration. Our all-agency methodology analyzes the relationships between response organizations from the frontline municipal level responders, through provincial and state level agencies, to national and international level organizations. The CAE EM-Sim environment is developed based on organizational analysis using CAE's Capability Engineering and Design Approach (CEDA), which identifies the agencies that must collaborate; their roles within the multi-agency response; their relationships with other agencies within the team; and their internal structure, business processes, and systems. From this data, the organizational behaviours of each agency are modelled and represented within the virtual environment. This feature allows agencies to test their response strategies, as well as train, at any time independent of multi-agency exercises. The virtual units of each organization respond according to the business processes and strategies identified.
