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When disasters strike

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multiple responder agencies must work together to provide aid and response.

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During FEMA’s recent Shaken Fury exercise,

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the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate

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provided technology and tools to make that happen

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Here at Muscatatuck for the last week we've had a multi taskforce international exercise

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where we've had six teams come from across the United States

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along with five Canadian teams and an Australian team that flew here for this exercise.

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And we've been working 24-hour operations for the last week

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to respond to a 6.6 magnitude earthquake.

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S&T had a dual focus during the Shaken Fury exercise:

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search and rescue and information sharing.

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Here we're working with urban search and rescue and basically running them through

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all kinds of different scenarios.

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There's buildings, there's a flooded city, there is all kinds of props

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and they are training and exercising and working through those.

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Shaken Fury is an important exercise.

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The scenario that they're using with the New Madrid Seismic Zone,

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it brings all the players together, whether it's federal agencies,

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state agencies, or private sector partners.

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so that we can validate the plans that we've been working on over the years.

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Our role within Shaken Fury is to bring in capabilities

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around science and technology to enhance

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not only the resilience but also to bring in a stronger culture of innovation

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within the responder space.

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We're offering the opportunity for the technology developers

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to meet with the responders to get the feedback

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to understand whether or not their technology has any hope

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of actually functioning within an operational world.

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And of course, that's very valuable.

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The collaboration with Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate

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has been phenomenal for us.

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I've received tremendous feedback from the responders that are here.

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We see it as an opportunity for our folks to see new technologies.

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We see it as an opportunity for S&T to get a hold of subject matter experts

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that are gonna end up using the technology.

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So we think it's a, it's a great opportunity.

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The future technology to do our job better was here.

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We could see it. We could test it. We could play with it.

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They can go back and make it better for us.

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And, hopefully, get it to us in the next few years.