The Institutional Shield Exercise Initiative is designed to provide meaningful active shooter exercises opportunities to America's schools, health care providers, universities, communities and businesses.

Institutional Shield Exercise Components
College / University	Community Event	Hospital
School (K-12)	Workplace

These exercises provide a comprehensive approach for assessing various active shooter response and consequence management capabilities.

The initiative is designed to provide an opportunity for agencies and organizations across America to participate in a meaningful exercise with measurable outcomes.

Institutional Shield Benefits

• Choice of exercise component that best aligns with your organization's responsibilities.

• All exercises are Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) compliant.

• Alternative to the traditional time consuming and costly approach to conducting tabletop and functional exercises.

• Provides a cost-effective platform for assessing active shooter related capabilities and capacity.

• Meets grant funding expenditure requirements for exercises.

• Exercises are conducted via the ONX System, an internet based application, which allows individuals and teams to participate in an exercise from their normal base of operation.

Featured Exercises

College / University (Higher Education) These exercises serve as an opportunity for the management and staff that make up your college or university's Incident Command Team along with your community’s response agencies to work through scenario information and injects dealing with an active shooter incident occurring on your campus. Academic Adversity - An Active Shooter Response Tabletop Exercise - 6/27/2013 & 9/10/2013 Academic Adversity - An Active Shooter Consequence Management Tabletop Exercise - 7/11/2013 & 9/24/2013

Community Event These exercises serve as an opportunity for government officials along with their community’s emergency response agencies and organizations to work through scenario information and injects dealing with an active shooter incident occurring during a local community event. Vigorous Vigilance - An Active Shooter Response Tabletop Exercise - 6/4/2013 & 8/6/2013 Vigorous Vigilance - An Active Shooter Consequence Management Tabletop Exercise - 6/25/2013 & 8/20/2013

Hospital These exercises serve as an opportunity for the management and staff that make up your Hospital Incident Command Team along with your community's response agencies to work through scenario information and injects dealing with a active shooter incident occurring within your hospital. Sickbay Security - An Active Shooter Response Tabletop Exercise - 7/17/2013 & 10/10/2013 Medical Mayhem - An Active Shooter Consequence Management Tabletop Exercise - 7/24/2013 & 10/24/2013

School (K-12) These exercises serve as an opportunity for the management and staff that make up your school district’s Incident Command Team along with your community’s response agencies to work through scenario information and injects dealing with an active shooter incident occurring at one of the district’s schools. Crisis Crucible - An Active Shooter Response Tabletop Exercise - 8/20/2013 & 9/17/2013 Crisis Crucible - An Active Shooter Consequence Management Tabletop Exercise - 8/27/2013 & 10/1/2013

Workplace These exercises serve as an opportunity for the staff and management that make up your workplace along with your community’s response agencies to work through scenario information and injects dealing with an active shooter incident occurring within your office. Ardent Sentry - An Active Shooter Response Tabletop Exercise - 6/6/2013 & 8/6/2013 Ardent Sentry - An Active Shooter Consequence Management Tabletop Exercise - 6/20/2013 & 8/20/2013