Initial Foundation Focus:
Campus Security and Readiness

The CHSF is a Virginia not-for-profit corporation with the goal of improving security and readiness in the Commonwealth of Virginia through directed research and grants. The CHSF is poised to begin its first project focused on Campus Security and Readiness. The vision for the project is to elevate security and readiness both at the K-12 and University level to include analysis and improvement of threat identification, detection, and neutralization; student evacuation and reunification with guardians; and continuity of education.

This idea for this project, identified in association with Governor Tim Kaine's Executive Order 44: Establishing Preparedness Initiatives in State Government, was refined in close association with the Governor's Office of Commonwealth Preparedness (OCP). The Director of OCP authorized this project as an appropriate initial effort given the high priority of campus security, readiness, and response. He further agreed with the proposal that CHSF make its initial goal to solicit funds up to $10,000,000 to support research and grants for the first year.

Beyond this specific project, participation will broaden in the Foundation as soon as possible to include the higher education community in Virginia and other major stakeholders already working on this issue.

Additional Priorities

Continuity of Critical Infrastructure Operation

• Objectives
  • Protection and preemption
  • Corporate resiliency—recovery, reconstitution
• Areas of Interest
  • Power production and distribution
  • Water supply safety and security
  • Port security
  • Communications data storage and security
  • Fuel storage and distribution
  • Food production, storage, and distribution

Transportation Network Security and Evacuation Management

• Threat identification, detection, and neutralization
• Traffic evaluation
• Support infrastructure—food/fuel/medical supplies

High Population/High Density Commercial Venue Security

• Retail
  • Malls
  • Restaurants
  • Grocery Outlets
• Sports and recreation
  • Stadiums
  • Theatres
  • Parks
  • Museums
  • Tourist Sites
• Large Commercial Venues
  • Business Centers
  • Industrial Parks
  • Mass Transit

State and Local Government Command and Control During All-Hazard Events

• Training simulation and analysis tool
• Planning
• Lessons-learned feedback
• Real-time situational awareness and operations