Who We Are

The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that focuses on accelerating the transfer of technology into end-user-driven products and systems in support of first responders and other homeland security personnel. We accomplish this by creating a “living lab” environment in our Morrelly Homeland Security Center – which is the first, and only one, of its kind privately owned homeland security C4I facility – that allows for unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sectors. The result: A more efficient way of developing and commercializing products and services that homeland security end-users need and can afford.

Our Mission

To help protect the United States from man-made and natural disasters by:

1. Bringing together the public and private sectors and academia to develop and commercialize resilient and sustainable homeland security products and services;
   
   
2. Providing a state-of-art command and control center for government entities; and,
   
   
3. Offering the most up-to-date training and exercise programs for first responders and other homeland security end-users.

Morrelly Homeland Security Center

The Center is a three floor, 90,000 square foot C4I facility that was established with a $25 million grant from New York State. It is approximately 20 miles from New York City and has a wide-array of command and control capabilities including:

• Communications: Satellite (CBand, VSAT), all band terrestrial (for First Responders), dedicated cell network, fiber & WIFI connections to fixed and mobile platforms.
  
  
• Cyber Operations Integrated Network Facility (COIN): Normal operations include modeling and simulation lab. Also serves as next generation command and control center for use during emergency operations.
  
  
• Lecture Hall: 150-seat lecture hall for training, lectures and exercises. Can be transformed to 75-seat Joint Operations Facility in an emergency with links to other parts of the operations facility.
  
  
• tailgatER: Owns and operates satellite-linked vehicle that can receive real-time, incident information from our command and control facility.