Tag: Mark McCourt
McCourt’s “Snow Day” looks at crisis management and mass casualty events
June 28, 2021SSN Staff
BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—More than 600 people died on 9/11 because they were instructed not to evacuate by a person without the right information or proper authority to make that decision.
Two nearly identical terror threats against the NYC and LA school systems were received on the same night, but poor communication protocols resulted in opposite crisis management decisions to keep the schools open or closed.
During each crisis or mass casualty event, the extent to which management strategy,...
SIA launches new robot-focused working group
December 6, 2017Spencer Ives
The Security Industry Association on Dec. 1 announced its new Autonomous Security Robots Working Group, appointing Mark McCourt as the group's chair. McCourt talked with Security Systems News about the group's formation and core focuses.
McCourt said that he's been working on the group since September. “We thought about getting out in front of this topic by taking the robotics, the drone, the anti-drone [or] drone defense, underwater unmanned vehicles, that section of the market that serves...