The Community Lifeline Status System (CLSS) is approaching open deployment in 2025! The CLSS is a no-cost technical solution designed to help emergency management agencies simplify impact assessments to operationalize FEMA's community lifelines.

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Community Lifeline Status System Webinar: Back to Basics

During this informative session, the CLSS project team will take a look back at why Lifelines were created, how to understand community impacts, and discuss the importance of data in leading the next era of emergency management. There have been many updates to the CLSS since development began in 2023, so whether you have been following CLSS from the beginning, or are just joining the excitement, this is the webinar for you!

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CLSS Begins Deployment Testing

On August 28, the project team kicked off deployment testing with the Maryland Department of Emergency Management (MDEM) and the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) - the first states to deploy the Community Lifeline Status System. Deployment testing and implementation will culminate within a multi-state exercise in Spring 2025.

Interested in deploying CLSS?

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Refer to the CLSS Hubsite to learn how to equip your EOC to deploy the tool.

Join us in celebrating the CLSS team’s recognition as “Best of Show” for their presentation, Operationalizing Community Lifelines Through Data: A Miami-Dade Use Case of CLSS at the National Homeland Security Conference in Miami Beach, Florida.

We look forward to sharing additional deployment information and updates at the following events:

• NEMA Mid-Year Forum | October 1-4, Baltimore, MD

• International Association of Emergency Managers Conference | Nov. 15-21, Colorado Springs, CO

• National Hurricane Conference | March 25-28, New Orleans, LA

Feature Article - Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate

Read about how the Community Lifeline Status System is supporting the next generation of emergency operation centers in this month’s feature article published by the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate.

Podcast Spotlight - Technologically Speaking

Listen to the full interview "Get Back Up and Continue On" HERE.

Follow along on LinkedIn

For updates, information, and featured content on the Community Lifeline Status System, be sure to follow G&H International Services, Inc. on LinkedIn.

Data Sharing

• Improved data sharing functionality to share the latest assessments and all assessments from the Reporting tab

• Updates to highlight the organization geography with the lifeline color for shared assessments

Deployment and Documentation

• Prepared deployment scripts to deploy to an organization's ArcGIS Online Environment and create a zip file to be uploaded to a web server

General Updates

• UI updates to ensure consistency and proper color contrast across different pages

• Bug fixes across all areas of the application - assessment trend, data library popup, override lifeline score, tagged data in templates

• Accessibility improvements

Click HERE to review all technical updates.

Our next newsletter will include a recap of a multi-state exercise.

We will share additional, reimagined user guide videos on the following topics: Data Library, Templates, Assessments, and Analysis & Reporting.

Thank you for subscribing to the CLSS Newsletter! We look forward to providing quarterly updates and opportunities to engage and hope that you’ll join us for a webinar or exercise.

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