States face growing crisis as federal disaster funding dries up

The Trump administration has suspended a $3.6 billion FEMA disaster resilience program and cut the FEMA workforce itself.

FEMA staff sound the alarm on disaster preparedness at rally in front of agency headquarters

Current and former staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency demonstrated against workforce and program cuts during a ...
Homeland Security TodayOpinion

COLUMN: Future Disaster: A Satirical Look at Tomorrow’s Emergency Management

It’s 2040, and America’s emergency management system has evolved — or perhaps *mutated* is the better word. FEMA has been ...
African Development Bank Group

UN International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction: Five Things to Know about the African Development Bank’s Africa Disaster Risk Financing Programme in The Gambia

The United Nations International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction calls for funding resilience now to avoid paying for disasters later.
IEEE

Integrating Marker-based Augmented Reality into Serious Games for Disaster Risk Management Training: Preliminary Technical Insights from the Philippines

Abstract: Serious games are emerging as promising training tools for disaster risk management as they provide experiential learning in a safe simulated environment. Given limited attention of learners ...
Nextgov

‘Widespread’ breach let hackers steal employee data from FEMA and CBP

A “widespread cybersecurity incident” at the Federal Emergency Management Agency allowed hackers to make off with employee data from both the disaster management office and U.S. Customs and Border ...
IEEE

A UAV-Assisted Edge Framework for Real-Time Disaster Management

Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with onboard embedded platforms and camera sensors provide access to difficult-to-reach areas and facilitate in remote sensing and autonomous ...