Instructors Rudy Matalucci, Ph.D., P.E. Retired Lt. Col. (USAF) Rudy Matalucci, is the President of Rudolph Matalucci Consultants, Inc., Specialists in Infrastructure and Architectural Surety®, in Albuquerque, NM. Prior to starting his own firm, he spent 22 years with Sandia National Laboratories where he was project manager for DOE and DOD funded R & D programs for deeply buried nuclear waste repositories, advanced nuclear weapons security and survivability facilities, environmental cleanup of contaminated DOE sites, and building and infrastructure protection against malevolent attacks and other threats. In the 20 years with the USAF, he directed R & D for high-explosive blast and shock simulations for evaluation of nuclear and conventional weapons effects on military structures; and directed design, construction, and testing of prototype facilities around the world including hardened and protective measures for aircraft shelters, missile silos, operational facilities, and buried command and control facilities. At Sandia, Dr. Matalucci completed his final 8 years as distinguished member of the technical staff and project manager for Infrastructure and Architectural Surety® federal and nonfederal programs. John H. Strothman Mr. Strothman, President of Strothman/Associates, Inc., Evanston, IL, facilitates and mentors industry and federal agency use of high-consequence technology applications including risk management methods for countering terrorism. His technology transfer and business models offer a process to further develop market value and performance from deep knowledge and 'to better understand what we don't know'. Licensed in Architectural Surety® and RAM-D (Risk Assessment Methodology -Dams) by Sandia National Laboratories, Mr. Strothman has an MBA from Harvard University,and AB from Cornell University.He is a consultantto industry and D.O.E.National laboratories,and offers a knowledge-base of core business services including risk management, strategic leadership, complexity management, communications and process improvement leadership, and clear business direction. Dr. Matalucci and Mr. Strothman are Technical Advisors to the Project Team for guidance on 'Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection' (RAMCAP), an ASME ITI /  DHS, ASCE collaboration.

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Course Description

This seminar will address Infrastructure and Architectural Surety® and will provide an introduction to an important Architectural Surety® tool, a systematic and robust Risk Assessment Methodology (RAM) developed by Sandia National Laboratories. The Security Risk Assessment Methodology (RAM) process developed by Sandia National Laboratories for dams and power transmission was recognized by the Federal Laboratory Council as an outstanding R & D project for 2002. Concepts and tools such as the risk assessment procedures, threat and consequence assessments, vulnerability assessment, fault trees, protection system effectiveness, consequence mitigation, likelihood of attack, and adversary sequence diagrams will be introduced and demonstrated. In addition, current event material and material provided by the attendees will be used in class-room discussion and can be incorporated into their case study presentations. Seminar participants will team to conduct risk assessment exercises and to present results.

You will learn how this systematic approach to identifying, assessing, and managing risks to buildings and facilities can be used to improve the safety, security, and reliability of the built environment.

This seminar is being offered in association with The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP). TISP is an “association of associations and agencies,” a partnership established to collaborate on issues related to the security of the nation’s built environment. TISP is a national asset facilitating dialogue on domestic infrastructure security and offering sources of technical support and comment on public policy related to the security of the nation’s built environment. TISP currently includes over 100 leading organizations and agencies representing over 1.25 million individuals and firms.

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Seminar Benefits

• Learn a methodology that you can apply yourself
• Learn smart engineering not standard engineering
• Understand advantages of a systematic process
• Rethink the security equation for multi-hazards
• Rethink the security approach for multi-environments
• Normal
• Abnormal
• Malevolent
• Gain confidence in Performance Based Solutions
• Distinguish among Risk Assessment Methodologies
• Threat Assessment
• Consequence Assessment
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Appreciate security as detection, delay, response
• Rethink the terrorism threat as “risk management” and as a “management dilemma”
• Simplify and frame that portion of the capital allocation and operational budget focused on security risk assessment and system effectiveness
• Familiarize and discuss new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guidelines on risk management and discuss collaborative professional societies involvement
• Discuss the RAM approach to risk management for application to enhanced security of infrastructures

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Who Should Attend

This is a seminar for all disciplines: every profession and every professional that has a responsibility for the security of public or private facilities and infrastructures. Terror-mitigation requires multi-discipline understanding, practice and response.

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Summary Outline

• INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL SURETY®
• Integration of Safety, Security, and Reliability (functionality)
• Threats (normal, abnormal, and malevolent environments)
• Risk Management and Multi-hazard Approaches
• Systems Orientation to Mitigating Risk
• Deliverables include less prescriptive and more predictive process (going beyond "checklists" to "system effectiveness" deliverables as well)
• Discussion of additional risk methodologies currently available or under development
• Outreach to and collaboration with universities/academia
• SECURITY RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY (RAM)
• Developed, Applied, Verified and Validated for The Inter-Agency Forum for Infrastructure Protection (IFIP), a federal agency dam consortium
• Application to Buildings and Infrastructure Facility Systems
• CONCEPTS AND TOOLS OF RAM
• Risk Equation
• Threat Identification and Assessment (including likelihood of occurrence)
• Consequence Assessment
• Critical Asset Identification (fault trees)
• Physical Protection System Effectiveness
• Scenarios Development (adversary sequence diagrams)
• Comparing Strategies for Risk Reduction (upgrades to reduce consequences and/or improve system effectiveness can be compared using a risk-reduction matrix that clearly indicates the cost/benefit ratios and returns on investments)
• APPLICABLE TECHNOLOGIES
• Risk assessment methodologies that provide performance metrics applicable to integrated new designs or retrofits
• Computer modeling and simulation to test designs,
• Engineered stress profile glass and other smart materials,
• Instrumentation and non-destructive evaluation
• HANDS-ON CLASS EXERCISE
• Teamed Risk Assessment Exercise (applying RAM tools and techniques to integrate new designs and retrofits)
• Presentation and discussion of Teamed Exercise Results
• Lessons learned, Aligning with Owner's requirements

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Attendees’ Comments

"Excellent seminar! I gathered enough information about where I need to go professionally. One of the best seminars I have been to in years."
David R. Kindig, BMT Entech, Reston, VA

"A difficult subject made easy and put into words. The seminar quantified 'risk' and described it in words."
David Drevinsky, Program Manager, GSA, Boston, MA

"There are no silver bullets for the current security environment including maintenance, operations and retrofit of facility assets. This seminar is for all disciplines."
Vincent Kam, Office of The Assistant Chief of Staff for Installations Management, U.S. Army

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