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Cayuse provided consistently accurate 24x7 Situational Awareness support in nine Regional Operations Centers worldwide. Our watchstanders facilitated well-informed decision-making and timely action by government leaders at Regional and Headquarters during routine operations and any contingency. Cayuse staff collaborated on instructions and operational reporting, mitigated potential staffing issues, and provided Continuity of Operations for the mission. Notably, Cayuse completed a 100% transition of 45 mission-critical staff within 10 days of award and maintained a 93% retention rate. #SituationalAwareness #RegionalOperations #GovernmentLeaders #OperationalReporting #ContinuityOfOperations #MissionCritical #StaffingIssues #DecisionMaking #Cayuse #Operations

Cayuse provided consistently accurate 24x7 Situational Awareness support in nine Regional Operations Centers worldwide. Our watchstanders facilitated well-informed decision-making and timely action by government leaders at Regional and Headquarters during routine operations and any contingency. Cayuse staff collaborated on instructions and operational reporting, mitigated potential staffing issues, and provided Continuity of Operations for the mission. Notably, Cayuse completed a 100% transition of 45 mission-critical staff within 10 days of award and maintained a 93% retention rate. #SituationalAwareness #RegionalOperations #GovernmentLeaders #OperationalReporting #ContinuityOfOperations #MissionCritical #StaffingIssues #DecisionMaking #Cayuse #Operations

The conference will focus on implementing safety culture on vessels and specifically promote a set of clear guidelines for casualty prevention, known as the Golden Safety Rules. #ResponsibleBusiness

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Finally, I completed the FEMA Basic Emergency Operations Center Functions Certificate

Update January 2025 As we commence the activities for the new year, I am still in rehab from my ruptured quadricep tendon, but the good news is my brace has moved to 30 degree mobility, then in 2 weeks it will change to 60 degree, before 90 degree mobility will be added 2 weeks after that. So it does feel as though things are improving and each day it gets easier. The requests for our services are growing on a daily basis as we currently have 208 days allocated to our consultants for 2025 which range from Loggist Training, JESIP, JDM, M/ETHANE, Gold, Silver and Bronze Structures, Gold Command Training, Silver Command Training, Multi-Agency Gold Incident Command and a large variety of exercises to test capability and response, from focused table top style, immersive and multi agency live events. This week the management team are in Aldershot for meetings regards future deployments throughout West Africa and we hope to provide further news soon, but we already have a number of tasks allocated in Ghana and Nigeria building on the programmes we have delivered previously and have been deemed to be a huge success. In addition we have been tasked to deliver programmes in Japan, Tukey and Italy for one of our clients which compliments the UK tactical emergency management (TEM), and operational emergency management (OEM) courses which make up the core products for this client as we have 6 TEM and 2 OEM courses which are 3 day events booked in for various locations in the UK. The key element of our products is that none are "off the shelf", as each is written bespoke to the site, the location, the staffing, the supply chain, the partners and does take into consideration their plans, processes and procedures for that particular location. Yes the core product is the same, but we pride ourselves in making the scenarios, the training delivery and any examples used relevant to that particular site and its staff. The bespoke nature of what we do, does make it more challenging, and is more time consuming in the preparatory phase, but its only right that the client gets the product that is suitable for the individual, team and organisations needs. The majority of our consultants come with a Counter Terrorism background, whether that be from policing, fire service or military. Some come from an operational background, others tactical or strategic, but we tend to mix the skill sets to get the right blend for the particular course or product we are delivering. The bedrock of everything we do though is JESIP! It frustrated me recently as I completed the ACT e-learning again and noted that the decision model utilised was not JDM but the IUDA loop and the NPSA CCTV course uses another decision making model similar but not the same as JDM? We really need to all come together and work from a single narrative or we will never attain true interoperability! #jesip #jdm #interoperability #training #exercising #methane

You know the dangers from dangerous goods but are you sure your work colleagues do? BADGP has designed Posters, Toolbox Talks and Instructional Films to assist your company to increase their awareness of the risk presented by dangerous goods. Take advantage of these free resources and don't forget to register for the free webinar on the 11th July - the first ever National DG Awareness Day. #badgp #dangerousgoods #dgsa #dgawarenessday #dgawareness

You know the dangers from dangerous goods but are you sure your work colleagues do? BADGP has designed Posters, Toolbox Talks and Instructional Films to assist your company to increase their awareness of the risk presented by dangerous goods. Take advantage of these free resources and don't forget to register for the free webinar on the 11th July - the first ever National DG Awareness Day. #badgp #dangerousgoods #dgsa #dgawarenessday #dgawareness

I am the founder of PlantVillage at Penn State, a tenured Professor at Penn State University with a named chair from the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Current and Emerging Threats to Crops (CETC IL)) I want to use this privileged position to call out UN FAO for not recognizing partners. I have said this many times in private to them but change is not happening so let me do it publicly. These posts below about using the app FAMEWS for Fall Armyworm monitoring do not mention PlantVillage at Penn State. This has been a consistent issue with FAO. I was a UN Fellow there for 2 years and have worked with them consistently for 6 years now. We provide enormous support to them and are always on call to help and improve transboundary pest monitoring tools we built like FAMEWS, eLocust3m and Susa Hamra. It is very similar with CGIAR. I recently met International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) DG in DC who did not know the name PlantVillage but knew of Nuru, the AI assistant we built. That is not an accident. That is because whoever told him dropped the name PlantVillage. (We have worked with IITA since 2006!) As a consequence when Bill Gates writes in his book about AI he says CGIAR scientists "created a smartphone app that allows farmers to use the camera on their phones to identify specific pests and diseases attacking cassava, an important cash crop in Africa" page 167 of Bill Gates (2021) How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. The posts below are public so I cannot imagine how we are ignored and not mentioned in private. Why? My thesis is that all agencies are in competition to secure grant dollars and telling people that actually the solution was developed by others is not helpful for securing funding from donors like Gates or EU Commission etc. It is Hunger Games out there! Fine, we understand. But not mentioning a partner is wrong: we in PlantVillage have village in our name for a reason! We are a public good, developed by farmers, scientists and teams of bright and hopeful youth across Africa and Asia who are all eager for food security and a bright future. People like Daniel Njapit who is our partners lead. It is fascinating now that we are partnering with the private sector in carbon removal. Companies like Biochar Life Carboneers and others are amazing in recognizing our contribution. We see stark contrast with the international public sector players. I say 'international' as local public partners (regional and national government and agencies are great. They are happy to mention us). Going forward we will be implementing a partner score: Gold, Silver and Bronze. If you are working with PlantVillage you want to be Gold because it is the right thing to do. But also, in a climate changed world working together is better than the alternative. We at PlantVillage at Penn State University are extremely proud to partner with FAO and CGIAR I hope they can be too!

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