Scenario Design and Event Simulation
Let us help you design and conduct scenario-based exercises in a simulated environment ahead of a real-world crisis.
With decades of expertise, PDC can support any type of exercise and hazard scenario, leveraging real-world historical data, predictive analytics, and our award-winning decision support technology, DisasterAWARE.
Scenario-Based Training
- Often focused on policy or strategic issues
- Smaller scope, less complex
Tabletop
Exercises
- Provides facilitated analysis of an emergency situation
- Examines policies, procedures, and operations to validate and refine plans as needed
- Informal, stress-free environment
Functional
Exercises
- Fully simulated exercise
- Realistic event, testing response capabilities in time-pressured environment
- Involves multiple functions, agencies, and organizations
Full-Scale
Exercises
- Tests regional, national, subnational disaster management systems, simulating real event as closely as possible
- Mobilizes emergency personnel and victims (actors), equipment, and resources
Your DisasterAWARE Training Begins Here:
Self-paced online courses are now available!
Get up to speed quickly on the use of DisasterAWARE by taking our brief, self-paced online courses and tutorials. Learn the basics and progress to becoming an advanced user. You may also request an on site, instructor-led classroom training at your location or ours. We can help you accomplish nearly any training objective.
We support any type of scenario and scale of exercise, from local to multi-national events.
Benefits of PDC’s Exercise Support
- Leverages PDC advanced analytics and live data in DisasterAWARE to solve problems and make life-saving decisions
- Accurately simulates real-world hazards and impacts based on DisasterAWARE historical hazard data
- Identifies planning weaknesses and time-saving measures
- Reveals gaps in resources and information
- Improves cross-team organizational coordination and communications
- Improves cooperation between nations, civil, military, and nongovernmental organizations
- Clarifies roles and responsibilities
- Enhances individual and team performance
Recent Exercises Showcase
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RECENT EXERCISES AND TRAININGS
Readiness efforts ramp up ahead of hurricane season with enhanced capabilities
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As forecasters anticipate an above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, preparations are accelerating across the region to protect communities potentially exposed to the devastating impacts of tropical cyclones.
RECENT EXERCISES AND TRAININGS
Cross-border exercise bolsters Balkans regional disaster preparedness
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The Balkans Region—A groundbreaking, dual-location Tabletop Exercise (TTX) in Tirana, Albania, and Pristina, Kosovo, took place in partnership with Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) and the United States Forest Service (USFS) on October 22–23, 2024. A first of its kind, the innovative exercise simulated a real-time multinational response to a severe winter storm
RECENT EXERCISES AND TRAININGS
PDC reunites with partners in Barbados for Tradewinds 2024 multinational exercise
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RECENT EXERCISES AND TRAININGS
PDC participates in ARDEX, ASEAN’s multinational disaster simulation exercise
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Yogyakarta, Indonesia—The University of Hawaii’s Pacific Disaster Center joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during a full-scale, multinational exercise from August 1-4. The exercise, held every other year, is a full-scale simulation to test, practice, review effectiveness and evaluate regional emergency response mechanisms. This year’s exercise which was held in the Yogyakarta province
RECENT EXERCISES AND TRAININGS
PDC assists with RIMPAC, the world’s largest international maritime exercise
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Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), in partnership with the United States government and twenty-six other national militaries, international organizations, and interagency partners, provided technical assistance and expertise during the world’s largest international maritime exercise known as Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC). Held at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Oahu throughout the month of July, PDC assisted with
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