Who We Are

Veterans

Marines, Guardsmen, Soldiers, Airmen, and Sailors who have seen what happens when infrastructure fails in theater — and understand that the same vulnerability exists at home. They know that military readiness depends on civilian infrastructure, and that every self-sustaining community is one that doesn’t consume military resources during a crisis.

Cybersecurity Professionals

Network defenders, incident responders, and SCADA security specialists who have seen the intrusions firsthand. They know what Volt Typhoon looks like inside a network. They know what Salt Typhoon did to American telecommunications. They volunteer for FIR because technical awareness without community action is just watching the clock.

Emergency Managers

FEMA-trained professionals who have deployed to hurricanes, wildfires, and floods — and learned the hard way that every emergency plan has a shelf life measured in hours. They watched the 72-hour assumption fail during Helene, during Maria, during Katrina. They volunteer for FIR because they want to build plans that survive contact with reality.

Medical Professionals

Physicians and public health specialists who understand that healthcare collapses faster than any other sector during an extended grid outage. They know that dialysis machines need power, insulin needs refrigeration, ventilators need electricity, and rural hospitals carry 72 hours of generator fuel at best. They volunteer for FIR because a community that can sustain its medical infrastructure is a community that doesn’t become a mass casualty event.

Engineers

Power systems engineers, water treatment specialists, telecommunications architects, and civil infrastructure professionals who understand how these systems actually work — and exactly how they fail. They build the dependency chain models and the hardening specifications that make Diamond Blue certification more than a checklist.

Policy Professionals

Former government officials, legislative staff, grant writers, and regulatory specialists who know how federal programs work — and where they stop working. They wrote the FERC comment letter. They drafted the executive order. They built the grant navigator that maps federal funding to community resilience projects.

Communicators and Educators

Technical writers, trainers, curriculum developers, and public affairs professionals who translate threat intelligence into language that city councils and county managers can act on. They built 168 hours of training curriculum. They produce the podcast. They make the complex accessible without making it simple.

Veterinary & Food Supply Safety

Veterinarians, food safety inspectors, zoonotic disease specialists, and supply chain integrity professionals who understand that food security is both a production problem and a safety problem. They know that without powered refrigeration the commercial food supply becomes a public health hazard within 48 hours. They understand livestock management without grid-dependent systems, safe slaughter and preservation practices, water quality testing for agricultural use, and the zoonotic disease risks that emerge when sanitation systems fail. They volunteer for FIR because a community that can produce, store, and certify safe food without the national supply chain is a community that doesn’t starve — and doesn’t get sick from what it eats.

Threat Intelligence

FIR publishes the Four-Party Ecosystem threat assessment series — the most comprehensive publicly sourced analysis of the combined-arms threat from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea to American critical infrastructure. Three volumes, continuously updated, sourced exclusively from congressional testimony, intelligence community reports, and government documents.

Policy Advocacy

FIR filed a formal comment letter with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on grid security standards. FIR drafted a proposed executive order establishing a national BSE resilience program. FIR called for presidential action on the drone threat to critical infrastructure. FIR doesn’t wait to be invited to the policy conversation.

Community Engagement

FIR volunteers have assisted communities struck by hurricanes, assisted military installations with disaster exercise planning, and conducted assessments for municipalities, hospitals, universities, and military-adjacent communities across the country.

Current Events Monitoring

FIR continuously tracks developments across cybersecurity, energy policy, grid operations, nuclear energy, EMP/GMD science, and adversary operations. Press releases, threat analyses, and curated intelligence summaries are published to keep stakeholders informed about the evolving threat landscape.

COTS Resilience Solutions

FIR identifies and evaluates commercial off-the-shelf products and services that can improve resilience at the household, community, and institutional level — from EMP protection to backup communications to water purification. The goal is practical, deployable solutions, not theoretical specifications.

The Interactive Framework Tool

FIR developed and maintains a 50,000+ line interactive HTML application that integrates Leaflet.js mapping, Diamond Blue certification assessment, Time-Phased Scenario Planning, 4PE threat overlays, CEJST demographic data, federal grant directories, and a complete document generation hub — delivered as a standalone file for each assessed community.