TOMAR Research, Inc.

10/24/2019

The United States does well in five of six preparedness categories but ranks 19th — after Australia, Canada, Singapore and more than a half-dozen European countries — in measures that assess the overall risk environment and vulnerability to biological threats. The factors driving down the U.S. s...

10/22/2019

While at the Department of Justice Butch Straub, Director, Ted Macklin, Deputy Director, and the team at Office of Domestic Preparedness, created, organized, and ran the first TOPOFF exercises despite claims by some that terrorists were not sophisticated enough to conduct multiple, coordinated, attacks.

Read Fast Facts from CNN about the National Exercise Program, the US system for emergency preparation drills.

08/18/2017

http://www.vigilantguardian.org/about.html

Ted was a featured speaker and facilitator for Vigilant Guardian 2017

​The Vigilant Guardian Exercise is aimed at bringing together Bay Area first responders, hospital staff, emergency managers, and all levels of government to evaluate the region's ability to detect...

06/20/2016

Just now on MSNBC Breaking News, Florida Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings referenced the Joint Counter Terrorism Awareness Workshop that Ted recently facilitated in Orlando, as helping to prepare them to respond to Orlando Pulse Nightclub attack.

11/20/2015

Chicago Sun Times article about the 2 day event Ted Facilitated

A mock terrorist attack was part of a pre-planned conference Tuesday that began to tackle the question of how local agencies would handle such an incident.

11/20/2015

http://abc7chicago.com/news/counter-terrorism-experts-train-chicago-law-enforcement-safety-leaders/1087956/

11/20/2015

Ted facilitated this event in Chicago
11/17-11/18 2015

Watch the video Counter-terrorism experts train Chicago law enforcement, safety leaders on Yahoo News . America's top counter-terrorism experts were in Chicago Tuesday for the 21st annual Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop at McCormick Place.

11/18/2015

An old write-up from TOPOFF 2 2003

The noise was loud and white smoke appeared, but there was little else real on Monday as the federal government launched a weeklong terrorism preparedness exercise in an industrial neighborhood...

07/15/2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2h7WCfpKHA

Team Rubicon Division 1 personnel (Regions 1, 2, 3, & 4) will convene at the National Veterans Center in Washington, DC to participate in a discussion-based ...