Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP)

The Center for Domestic Preparedness provides advanced, all-hazards training to approximately 50,000 emergency responders annually from state, local, tribal, and territorial governments, as well as the federal government, foreign governments, and private entities, as available. The scope of training includes preparedness, protection, and response.Training of state, local, tribal, and territorial responders is fully funded by the Department of Homeland Security. Training of federal, foreign, and private sector responders is on a fee-for-service basis.Since it opened its doors in 1998, the CDP has trained more than 1.1 million responders.

The Request

The design and building of a network security infrastructure for the continuous monitoring of the Fort McClellan CDP campus.

The Solution

The solution consisted of the implementation of a video surveillance security platform at their Fort McCellan Campus. The platform  was comprised of the implementation of outside plant fiber optics, inside cabling, video security servers, redundant power management, perimeter campus, internal building, roof mounted, as well as, egress/ingress monitoring capabilities. We partnered with the security division of Panasonic Corporation in the delivery of a comprehensive security architecture for the monitoring and securing of the complete CDP Campus.