Happy New Year! May you enter the new decade with renewed hope and vision for your and your family’s personal future, as well as for our shared republic. I wanted to share with you two important opportunities taking place in South Carolina later this month….. Read Full Story
“We have known about the existential threat posed by electromagnetic pulses (EMP) and geomagnetic disturbances (GMD) for decades. . . . It is way past time to stop admiring this problem, and actually begin to do something concrete to protect our vulnerable electrical grid, control systems, and the ever-increasing array of electronic devices our society has become dependent upon.” ~ Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) Read Full Story
“An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) has the potential to disrupt, degrade, and damage technology and critical infrastructure systems. Human-made or naturally occurring EMPs can affect large geographic areas, disrupting elements critical to the Nation’s security and economic prosperity, and could adversely affect global commerce and stability. The Federal Government must foster sustainable, efficient, and cost-effective approaches to improving the Nation’s resilience to the effects of EMPs.” Statement of Purpose of the March 26, 2019 Executive Order 13865 on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses. Read Full Story
“Critical infrastructure keeps our food fresh, our houses warm, our trade flowing, and our citizens productive and safe. The vulnerability of U.S. critical infrastructure to cyber, physical and electromagnetic attacks means that adversaries could disrupt military command and control, banking and financial operations, the electrical grid and means of communication.” ~President Donald Trump, identifying the most serious existential threats to Americans in his Dec. 18, 2017 National Security Strategy statement Read Full Story
President Trump’s March 26, 2019 Executive Order 13865 “Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Threats” is very important, but it leaves a challenge for the dysfunctional federal government, a condition that should give local citizens and leaders a great incentive for countering this now identified potentially urgent problem “from the bottom-up.” Read Full Story
Our Lake Wylie Pilot Study has matured to the point of taking next steps beyond Rock Hill and York County, especially in South Carolina and as soon as possible then into North Carolina. And our pattern can be extended to additional states. Read Full Story
We plan to share lessons learned in our Lake Wylie Pilot Study throughout South and North Carolina and then to the rest of the nation. Yesterday’s discussions in Austin, Texas set the stage sharing those lessons outside the southeast; in this case outside the Eastern Interconnection of the Nation’s electric power grid. Since Texas has its own Interconnection, lessons learned in Texas will benefit the Eastern and Western Interconnections of the nation’s grid. Read Full Story
Washington has been dysfunctional in at best limited efforts to protect the American people from existential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and even terrorists that somehow obtain a nuclear weapon, launch it from a vessel off our coast and detonate it at high altitude over the United States. Read Full Story
Monday morning, High Frontier Chairman Henry Cooper provided an update to a group of South Carolina citizen’s about the work High Frontier and it’s coalition partner Foundation for Resilient Societies have been working on to acquire cost estimates for securing the electric grid in the Carolina’s. We wanted to provide you the opportunity to listen to that presentation! Read Full Story
Friends – In 2015, High Frontier Partnered with The Center for Security Policy and Breitbart News to host The South Carolina National Security Action Summit. What a difference two year’s make as our new Commander in Chief, Donald Trump sets out to “Make America Safe Again” on many of the issues we addressed that weekend… Read Full Story
We will be adding key policy briefs as we progress.