Cubic, AMTI continue to support DHS emergency drills program

Practice, practice, practice. Hampton, Virginia-based Operations Support Division, part of the Mission Support Business Unit of the Cubic Defense Applications Group (CDA) (CDA is one of the two main segments of the San Diego, California-based Cubic Corporation [AMEX: CUB]), will continue to work with Virginia Beach, Virginia-based Applied Marine Technology (AMTI) to support DHS’s National Exercise Program (NEP) under a new Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC). AMTI is one of six prime contractors selected in January to bid for the NEP program, which has a potential value of $350 million over a five-year period. Cubic and AMTI work with DHS to plan and execute large-scale training events such as the Top Officials (TOPOFF) exercise series. The exercises help test collective emergency preparedness and collaboration capabilities across different levels of government and the private sector.

Cubic’s Operations Support Division already played a role in coordinating TOPOFF 3 in April 2005. To the extent that we can tell, TOPOFF 3 was probably the largest and most complex counterterrorism exercise ever attempted, involving more than 20,000 people in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Participants had to respond, among other things, to a simulated chemical attack in Connecticut and a simultaneous simulated biological attack in New Jersey.