The FIR Fresh Start Initiative
Professional-grade infrastructure resilience assessments delivered free of charge to communities, military installations, and organizations — replacing the $75,000 to $175,000 traditional consulting engagement with a FIR-certified assessor and a proven analytical platform.
What You Receive
When your community is accepted into the Fresh Start Initiative, a FIR-certified assessor analyzes your critical infrastructure using FIR’s proprietary Resilience Framework and delivers the following documents — all generated from your actual federal infrastructure data.
Executive Summary
One-page synthesis for elected officials — CI inventory, keystones, hardening gaps, risk level, and 6 priority recommendations.
9-Slide Briefing
Presentation-ready briefing covering BSE definition, 4PE threat actors, your infrastructure, risk assessment, and next steps.
Threat Intel Report
Four-Party Ecosystem threat analysis correlated to your specific infrastructure by sector.
BSE Readiness Roadmap
Six-phase plan from Bronze through Diamond Blue with action tables and budget framework.
Funding Navigator
Every roadmap item mapped to federal grant programs — BRIC, SLCGP, EMPG, DCIP, DOE GRIP.
Economic Assessment
Tax base at risk, jobs at risk, census data, equity analysis, and grant cost-share eligibility.
Training Plan
Every person who needs training, what they need, when, and at what cost.
Workforce Scoping
Every role assigned to a training tier with decision authority level and phase gate.
4 More Documents
PM Guide, Operational Planning Guide, Diamond Blue Checklist, and Infrastructure Inventory.
How It Works
Step 1: Apply
Complete the assessment request form. Tell us about your community, adjacent military installations, and what prompted your interest. There is no cost and no obligation.
Step 2: FIR Assesses
A FIR-certified assessor loads your infrastructure from 10+ federal databases, traces dependency chains, identifies keystones, and generates your complete document suite.
Step 3: You Receive
Your 12-document package is delivered electronically. A FIR assessor walks your leadership through the Executive Summary and Roadmap in a 60-minute briefing.
What This IS
A professional starting framework — the analytical structure, the questions that must be answered, the gaps that must be assessed, and the roadmap phases that must be planned — delivered in weeks rather than months. It gives your leadership a clear path forward and a credible document to present to councils, commanders, and grant reviewers.
What This Is NOT
A completed or validated engineering assessment. The Fresh Start documents are generated from federal open-source data and have not been field-verified. All entity-specific content — infrastructure details, threat assessments, population figures — must be independently verified. This is the beginning of a process, not the end of one.
What Comes Next
The Fresh Start documents are designed to create momentum. Once your leadership has reviewed the assessment, natural next steps include:
Training
Enroll your working group in BSE 099 (free, 10 hours online). Your team gains shared threat language and a personal readiness foundation. This is the prerequisite for everything else.
Certification
Your lead assessor progresses through CRC, CIRP, and ultimately CBRA certification — building permanent internal capability instead of perpetual consultant dependency.
FIR Engagement
For communities ready to accelerate, FIR provides contracted assessment services, exercise design, grant application support, and ongoing advisory through the certification journey.
Apply for a Free Assessment
No cost. No obligation. A certified FIR assessor will analyze your community’s critical infrastructure and deliver the complete 12-document planning suite.