The Background
One of the key successes in mission planning is to ensure that there is a robust Command and Control structure that can support not only once incident but simultaneous incidents with built in resilience and redundancy. First Resilience team have worked with the UK and International Government agencies to develop National Communications plans to enhance national infrastructure for deploy emergency services and military to single or multiple scale incidents.
Meeting your Requirements
Our work includes:
- The establishment of national co-ordination centres
- The procedures and protocol for deployments
- Monitoring and mobilising of national assets
- Recording and controlling of recourses
- Development of national resilience databases
- Development of national radio and control room procurement specifications
- Procurement and training of control rooms
- Mobile communications command vehicles and managing a wide range of various capabilities for secure voice
- Data and imagery from the scene of the incidents to the various levels of command structures
Our Equipment
First Resilience consultants have advised and project managed Government procurement teams in the procurement of:
- Fire and Rescue Service Wide Area Radio Communications replacement project and the implementation of TETRA Network
- National Interoperability plans for UK Fire service and mutual aid
- Military and Special Forces Counter Terrorisms Communications plans and deployment
- Procurement and Implementation of National Communications Systems for Government Liaison Officers in attendance at major incidents
- Procurement and project management of Enhanced Communications Mobile support vehicles to include satellite technology and interfacing into local and national control rooms
Training
First Resilience can provide training to support all levels of incident support including:
- Setting up incident management rooms
- Control rooms mobilisation systems training
- Situational awareness
- decision making
- Incident management workshops and logging of incidents
- Equipment familiarization and operations from hand held and vehicle radios systems to covert systems and tracking devices
- Satellite communications planning
- procurement
- training and operation of INMARSAT
- Iridium
- Thuraya
- VSAT type systems
“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.”
William Penn