ABOUT SPF

CONGRESSIONAL CRISIS SIMULATION EXERCISES

 

PARTICIPANTS:

SPF exercises are drawn from sitting Members of Congress and current Executive Branch policymakers at the Assistant Secretary level in order to encourage collaboration on policy making.

FORM:

SPF exercises are conducted as tabletop, not-for attribution discussions. Participants respond to realistic crisis scenarios (present via short videos and slides) by openly discussing policy options.

SCENARIO:

Each exercise is set in the context of a realistic, near-term security challenge. The topics are not set in the distant future, and are not highly speculative projections of the issues, but rather current issues, with scenarios generally set less than twelve months from the date of the exercise.

TOPICS:

With a total of 4-5 exercises per year, topics address current and near-future homeland and national security issues. General topics include:

REGIONAL ISSUES                              HOMELAND SECURITY                                     NATIONAL SECURITY
Korean Peninsula                          Agricultural Bioterrorism                        Financial Crisis
Taiwan Strait                                   Transportation Security                            Energy Security
Middle East South Asia               Bioterrorism                                                  Climate Change
Rising China                                    Critical Infrastructure Protection          Narcoterrorism
Africa                                                 Cyber Security                                               Pandemic Influenza

EXECUTION:

Exercises are conducted on a “not for attribution” basis, which tends to promote the most active, uninhibited  exchange of views. We can conduct up to two simultaneous cells of 16-20 Congressional and Executive Branch participants playing the same scenarios consisting of three seperate moves, and concluding with interactive, lessons-learned "hotwash" sessions. The duration of the exercise is about two and half hours. Press kits are available for press releases at the conclusion of the exercise.

 

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