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
View more information about the types of exercises and training engagements we’ve recently supported.
RECENT EXERCISES AND TRAININGS
Continuing Promise 2025: PDC supports U.S. Navy USNS Comfort mission stop in Ecuador
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Mission to Ecuador encompasses various activities, from direct medical and dental care provided aboard the USNS Comfort and at community clinics, veterinary engagements, to community relations and engineering projects, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercises, subject matter expert exchanges (SMEE), and more.
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We want to learn more about your needs and create a right-sized solution that pairs PDC’s extensive subject matter expertise with our advanced technical capabilities to bring you a world-class training and exercise experience.