ALEXANDRIA, VA. — The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) will be recognizing three individuals for their distinguished leadership in critical infrastructure resilience and volunteer service throughout an awards luncheon as part of the TISP Annual Infrastructure and Regional Resilience (AIRR) Conference in Grapevine, Texas, on Wednesday, December 8, 2010.
Joe D. Manous Jr., P.E., Ph.D., D.WRE, Institute for Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the recipient of the TISP Annual Award for Distinguished Leadership in Critical Infrastructure Resilience, 2010 Public Sector Award. This award acknowledges Mr. Manous’s many accomplishments within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Specifically, his leadership inentifying, researching, and developing strategic and operational level initiatives has attained positive broad, near and long-term impacts for USACE and infrastructure resilience. Mr. Manous lead research, analysis and writing of the official report on the 1993 mid-west flood, Sharing the Challenge, submitted to Senator Boxer as a status of recommendations across ten Federal agencies. He represented USACE while serving as chair of the ASCE Post-Hurricane Katrina Critical Infrastructure Guidance Task Committee, which analyzed organizational contributions to infrastructure failures associated with Hurricane Katrina and published the document Guiding Principles for the Nation's Critical Infrastructure. In addition, Mr. Manous also represented USACE when serving on the Executive Board of the National Institute for Engineering Ethics and as NIEE technical advisor for the production of the $300K engineering ethics video, Henry's Daughters. His leadership has guided our nation in strives to greater resiliency within several of our critical infrastructure sector.
Stephen E. Flynn, Ph.D., President, Center for National Policy, is the recipient of the TISP Annual Award for Distinguished Leadership in Critical Infrastructure Resilience, 2009 Private Industry Award. Since the tragic events occurred on September 11, 2001, Dr. Flynn has served as a civic voice for improving the security and resilience of our nation. In early 2010, Dr. Flynn became the sixth President of the Center for National Policy. Prior to being selected to lead the Center, he spent a decade as a senior fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Following the election of President Barack Obama, he served as the lead policy advisor on homeland security for the presidential transition team. He currently serves as a member of the bipartisan National Security Preparedness Group, co-chaired by former 9/11 commissioners, Governor Tom Kean and Congressman Lee Hamilton. In addition, Mr. Flynn is also the author of the critically acclaimed The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation (Random House, 2007). His strong leadership assisted in moving resilience to the foreground of the National Security Strategy.
Paula L. Scalingi, Ph.D., Director, Pacific Northwest Center for Regional Disaster Resilience, is the recipient of the TISP 2010 Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service. Bill Anderson, TISP Director and Chief Operating Officer, nominated Hecker for the award, and the selection was decided by the Membership and Awards Committee, led by Jay Manik, Vice President at CDM. For TISP, Dr. Scalingi has volunteered hundreds, perhaps thousands, of personal hours developing regional disaster resilience principles and practices form which many homeland security stakeholders have benefited. In 2004-2006, she had lead the Regional Disaster Resilience Task Force in the creation of the Regional Disaster Resilience: A Guide for Developing and Action Plan. In 2007, she became the First Vice Chair on the TISP Steering Committee and joined the TISP Board of Directors in 2009 during its initiation. Currently, she is leading a large group of volunteers revising the Regional Disaster Resilience Guide to incorporate recent advances in resiliency concepts, establish a set of resilience principles, and apply new innovations. Beyond her volunteer work, Dr. Scalingi is the director at Pacific Northwest Center for Regional Disaster Resilience. She is working with stakeholders to develop and manage activities to provide information resources and improve the ability of the Pacific Northwest to protect its critical infrastructures as well as withstand and recover from all-hazards disasters. In addition to her Pacific Northwest activities, as President of The Scalingi Group, she has developed similar initiatives for the states of Iowa and Maryland; in the San Diego, New Orleans, and Chicago regions, and for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
TISP is a not-for-profit, public-private partnership facilitating dialogue and coordinating technical expertise for the development of policy and practice advancing the resilience and security of critical infrastructure. Each year, TISP members and partners submit award applications nominating candidates who have made a significant and lasting contribution to critical infrastructure resilience.
Manik chairs the TISP Membership and Awards Committee, which coordinated the review of candidate applications and selected the winners. “These awards highlights the key efforts underway in both the public and private sectors that are critically important to increasing the ability of our nation’s infrastructure to withstand the impact of any manmade or natural disasters,” said Manik.
Anderson created the TISP Annual Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service in 2009 to recognize leading volunteers within the TISP partnership. “We rely on members and partners to achieve TISP goals and objectives. Those members who go above and beyond expectations deserve our gratitude and recognition,” said Anderson.
For more information about The Infrastructure Security Partnership and its award program for 2010, visit www.tisp.org or contact Bill Anderson at wanderson@tisp.org.
The TISP Annual Infrastructure and Regional Resilience (AIRR) 2010 Conference will be held December 8-9 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.
About The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) is a non-profit partnership serving as a national asset facilitating dialogue on domestic infrastructure security and offering sources of technical support and sources for comment on public policy related to the security of the nation’s built environment. TISP is a national leader in infrastructure security and resiliency with a diverse membership supporting the nation’s economy and well being of its people. TISP pledges to lead public- and private-sector collaboration that advances the practice and policies of infrastructure security and resiliency to sustain the nation’s resources and its ability to efficiently restore infrastructure when disrupted by any hazard.
TISP membership includes local, regional, state, federal, and foreign agencies, professional associations and industry trade groups, engineering, architecture, and construction firms, codes and standards organizations, educational institutions and universities, planners and economic developers, infrastructure owners and operators, manufacturers, and service providers whose main purpose is related to security and resiliency of the nation’s built environment. Collectively, TISP represents nearly two million individuals and firms involved in the planning, design, construction, and operation of infrastructure. Our primary objective is to create a collaborative and coordinated environment enabling secure and resilient infrastructure, which will raise awareness and will support the nation’s economy and well being of its people.
The Society of American Military Engineers serves as the Secretariat of TISP.
For more information, contact: Stacy Cardillo The Infrastructure Security Partnership Phone: 703-908-2879