The AHC Solution: A Protected Community Built for Operations Professionals
When you become an AHC member, you step into a vetted, trusted, private community of government and industry professionals who work together year-round to:
Share sensitive operational information
Build cross-sector solutions
Test new ideas through exercises
Solve barriers that impact disaster readiness, response, and recovery
Develop new approaches to resource movement, logistics, communications, cyber readiness, and more
The unique mechanism that makes all of this possible is the SISE (Sensitive Information Sharing Environment) — the only FOIA-protected legal framework in the nation designed specifically for public/private operational collaboration.
This is where 100+organizations come together to rapidly create, validate, and deploy solutions that reduce downtime and get infrastructure and communities back to normal faster.
AHC Corporate Membership Helping Your Organization Stay Connected, Prepared, and Operational — Before, During, and After Disasters
The All Hazards Consortium (AHC) brings together state emergency managers, federal partners, and critical infrastructure companies to solve real operational problems before disasters happen and coordinate faster when they do.
Corporate Members gain access to a trusted national network, real-time information, and practical exercises that strengthen preparedness and reduce operational disruption.
During Normal Operations(Blue-Sky Planning & Relationship Building)
- Help Shape Real Solutions - Participate in working groups and use-case teams solving real cross-sector challenges with state and industry operators.
- Test Your Plans Before a Crisis - Join the annual cross-sector hurricane exercise to test assumptions, identify gaps, and understand how states and industries will operate during major events.
- Learn Directly from Emergency Leaders - Access training, workshops, and leadership forums with state emergency management leaders and federal partners.
- Use Operational Tools Built for Industry - Members gain access to key platforms: • ReadyOps SIGNAL channels – secure real-time coordination • SISE-net Hub – operational intelligence and updates - Build Trusted Relationships - Network with 100+ vetted operational partners across sectors including:
• Electric utilities • Communications • Transportation • Fuel and logistics • Water and food supply • State and federal emergency management
These relationships dramatically reduce coordination time during crises.
Collaborate on Emerging Risks
Participate in Use Case Committees addressing major challenges and events (e.g., major storms, cyber risks, or national events like the World Cup).
During Emergencies
(Dark-Sky Operations & Crisis Coordination)
Faster Coordination with States & Industry
Direct access to state emergency management leaders and peer infrastructure operators during major incidents.
Real-Time Situational Awareness
Receive trusted operational updates through:
• Secure SIGNAL coordination channels • The SISE-net Hub operational information system
This provides early insight into infrastructure impacts, supply chain disruptions, and emerging threats.
Direct Operational Coordination Calls
Participate in cross-sector coordination calls with states, FEMA, and critical industries to resolve issues quickly.
This allows your teams to adjust operations faster and avoid delays.
Rapid Problem Solving Through the AHC Help Desk
Members can use the AHC Operational Help Desk to quickly connect with the right government officials or industry partners during crises.
Protected Information Sharing
Sensitive operational discussions occur within a FOIA-protected environment, allowing companies and governments to share information candidly without public disclosure risks.
Why Members Join
Disasters and crises are getting more complex while staff, budgets, and time shrink. AHC membership helps leaders address today’s biggest operational challenges:
Limited trusted cross-sector partners
Fragmented information during crises
FOIA exposure concerns
Slow or incomplete situational awareness
Repeated resource movement and logistics issues
Difficulty coordinating across states and industries
AHC provides the structure, relationships, and protected environment needed to solve these together.
WhatAHC Members Receive
Each membership includes full access to the Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE) Community, its working groups, and all year-round programs.
Access to the SISE Community & Trusted Relationships - Access a vetted network of state emergency managers, infrastructure operators, private sector liaisons, utilities, retailers, transportation, health care, fuel providers, and more. These relationships become your go-to trusted partners for planning, validating information, and rumor control during crises.
Cross-Sector Planning & Exercises - Participate in group or customized cross-sector exercises that strengthen coordination between states, trade groups, and supply chain partners across industries (power, fuel, communications, food, water, healthcare, retail, transportation, etc.). These exercises expose gaps early and build real operational muscle.
Collaboration Environment (SISE) - Work year-round in a FOIA-protected, legally structured environment that builds trust and enables sensitive—not public—conversations that help solve operational problems. This includes access to the SISE Operational Directory of over 780+ nationwide users and the SISE's SIGNAL member channels.
Access to Best Practices, Playbooks & Tools - Members receive working group outputs including templates, playbooks, resources, reports, and operational tools designed and validated by the SISE community.
Training & Education - Year-round access to workshops, briefings, webinars, and targeted working group sessions help members strengthen readiness across their organizations.
Research & Federal Grant Opportunities - Members are first to learn about upcoming grant opportunities. Many projects turn into funded pilots, partnerships, or multi-state initiatives.
Operational Situational Awareness During Crises - When large scale disasters strike, members share real-time, ground-level information through the SISE and its National Operational Information Sharing Hub and the secure SIGNAL app channels —allowing faster decision-making and more accurate response coordination.
Crisis Concierge Help Desk - Members receive real-time support during hurricanes and major crises through a private SIGNAL-based help desk. This concierge-style support helps members rapidly connect with the right people, trusted partners, or essential operational information to meet unmet needs—reducing delays, accelerating response, and improving coordination across sectors.
Influence & Leadership Opportunities - Members have a seat at the table to shape policies, priorities, and new public/private use cases that drive investments and impact operations for years to come.
Impacts of Membership:
Cross-Functional Problem Solving via Planning, Training & Exercises with States and Private Sector Representatives
Before Membership:
You lack reliable cross-sector contacts
You’re always rebuilding relationships from scratch
Information is slow or uncertain
State and industry partners aren’t aligned
Critical decisions feel blind
You face FOIA risks
You operate in silos
After Membership:
You gain a trusted private network you can call immediately
You collaborate with people who understand your pressures
You get operational information faster
You have a protected environment to solve problems
Your state or organization becomes more crisis-ready
You help shape new multi-state solutions
You never respond alone again
Who Should Join:
If your mission is to keep people, systems, and supply chains running during crises—you belong here.
All Briefings, Workshops & Training - Builds capability through practical education that improves coordination and response performance.
All Reports & Outputs - Provides actionable insights that guide planning, investments, and multi-state collaboration priorities.
All Collaboration Channels - Enables private, real-time communication connecting members quickly during high-pressure events.
All Multi-State Initiatives, Projects, Grants - Creates opportunities to influence regional solutions, policy and participate in funded resilience efforts.
Next Steps:
Step 1:Register (No Cost)
Register at no cost with the private sector’s Sensitive Information Sharing Environment (SISE)
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information about SISE, the All Hazards Consortium (AHC), its working groups, and related resources.
Step 2: Introductory Discussion
Schedule a brief introductory meeting with our team to learn more about AHC and how it can support your organization based on your specific needs
NOTE: AHC Membership includes access to most all AHC working groups, meetings, solutions, and services (except where noted).
A single fee provide year-round access and participation for up to three (3) people.
Work Groups: Participation on working groups and their work products, exercises, and solutions
Meetings / Workshops: Participation in member only meetings, workshops and annual meetings.
Operations: Access to the SISE-net SIGNAL app's cross-sector channels for real-time situational awareness and updates from state, feds, and sectors during disasters
Services: Access to the entire SISE-net Hub 2.0, the Operational Directory and new updated Hub features and services as they are developed; receive email introductions to other members when needed most, get information faster with email member support.
Projects: Have a seat at the table with other members to help shape jointly resourced projects, research, or joint grant applications
Join our community of Trusted Members & partners Who solve operational problems together
Participate in PRO Community
Problem Solving Exercises
Premium Services & Support
Access Proprietary Technology & Tools
Get Education & Training
Introduced to Emerging Solutions
Intended for companies looking to reduce their operational risks to natural or man-made threats by leveraging the AHC member community's operational relationships in industry and government, gaining access to new unique data/tools, and benefiting from new cross sector partnerships and research.
Simplify your operational planning efforts with other members via mutual support, shared resources, more reliable information, and real results you can implement now.
Participate in unique, energized, and more effective planning and problem solving processes.
Expand your peer networks and reduce your technology costs by sharing and leveraging member community resources and new tools.
Connect to cross sector peers via working groups, get answers and information faster.
Track and help shape new emerging technologies and research.
Get Your Message Out and Enhance Your Business Development by Sponsoring at AHC Events
Intended for companies or organizations who have a message/solution they want to communicate/test, research to conduct, a brand they want to promote, requirements they want to develop, or business development they want to conduct with industry or government.
Leverage our 16-year old trust network of over 50,000 stakeholders nationwide to broaden your reach quickly through our events.
Expose your research, product, or solutions to industry and government professionals at an event and afterwards
Generate new leads and opportunities nationally from industry or government by taking advantage of our unique digital outreach capabilities even after the event is over.
Position your organization as a thought leader on a specific topic.
Gain feedback on your research or product development efforts from operations professionals in the field
Leverage our 16-year old trust network of over 50,000 stakeholders nationwide
Effective webinar design, messaging and facilitation