Overview
Blue Cascades III, was held in March 2006, it is the third in a series of infrastructure interdependencies tabletop exercises focused on the Pacific Northwest and developed and conducted by regional public and private sector organizations themselves.
The first Blue Cascades, held in Portland, Oregon in June 2002, was conducted under the auspices of the newly created Pacific Northwest Partnership for Regional Infrastructure Security and sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Navy’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Office, FEMA Region 10, and the Canadian federal government. The exercise centered on raising awareness of interconnections among the region’s critical infrastructures and resulting vulnerabilities associated with largely physical attacks and disruptions.
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