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r I ER SECURITY STRATEGIES, INC. 2015 ASAUA GER SOW 25C -14 Timellne Task Task 1: Review available risk, capabilities assessment, and other relevant data. 2 months • Hold project kick-off ineetingwith regional stakeholders. • Actual UASI grant expenditure data from FY 2009 through FY 2013 through Grant Workbooks and other data sets. • UASI Investment Justifications. • Most current THIRA and other risk assessment data. • Any capability assessment and gap analysis data. • Actual major products /deliverables developed through UASI funds (i.e., if planning funds were used to create /revise /enhance a plan). • Any metrics data collected on products /projects funded through UASI (e.g., "we used UASI funding to build a community preparedness website that has gotten a certain number of hits and enabled a certain number of discrete downloads "). • Training output data (e.g, the number of people trained through UASI funding, what disciplines, what courses). • Exercise data (including how many /what types of exercises were funded through UASI, the number of people and disciplines involved, the after action reports (AARs) from those exercises; should also include other exercise AARs that may not have been directly funded through UASI but that tested skills that were bolstered through the grant funds). • Real -world event AARs to see how capabilities built /enhanced through UASI funding actually performed during real events with a focus on evaluating the capabilities in place during each of these incidents and the extent to which grant funding impacted the performance of those capabilities during the incident response. • Homeland security strategy /hazard mitigation plans. • Previous assessment information on specific issues, e.g., Bomb Squad assessments Task 2: Conduct interviews and collect supplemental data. 6 weeks • Conduct a series of telephone interviews with local subject matter experts to collect additional data and add context and meaning to the written data collected in task one. • Put together a set of questions after the initial data review is done and then send those questions out ahead of time. Then conduct the interview and take notes. Task 3: Analyze data. Use these different data inputs to determine how the region invested 6 weeks UASI grant funds to build, enhance, or sustain capabilities. This will involve the following; • Identify linkages across risk, capabilities, and historical spending, and identify correlations between historical grant expenditures, the region's strategic priorities, and risk -based capability gaps facing the region. • Ensure data is coded to reflect alignment with appropriate analytic frameworks, including: • Core Capabilities • Goals and objectives in the ASAUA Homeland Security Strategy. • THIRA capability targets • Prevention, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation • Summarize high -level trends in risks, capabilities, and grant investments to demonstrate the positive impact of the UASI program in the region, using existing analysis. 2015 ASAUA GER SOW 25C -14