Where private-sector expertise meets the nation’s toughest coordination challenges.
PSEMA is expanding into applied research, putting the knowledge of our members to work on the problems that matter most to national resilience. This is a new way for members to engage: connecting real-world business expertise to the coordination challenges facing government, industry, and communities. Explore the work underway, and be part of the conversations shaping what comes next.
A New Way to Engage
Research & Innovation is more than a reading list. It’s a space for members to participate, sharing field experience, joining the conversation through webinars and discussion, and helping connect research to the decisions businesses actually make.
As this area grows, members will find new opportunities to contribute expertise, shape research questions, and put findings to work inside their own organizations. This is applied research with a purpose: a stronger, more coordinated private sector, ready before the need arises.
Homeland Defense & Arctic Research
PSEMA conducted two studies in support of the Homeland Defense Institute (HDI) and NORAD and USNORTHCOM Arctic mission assurance priorities. Both ask what happens in Alaska if a West Coast port disruption and an Arctic escalation hit at the same time, and both concentrate on the first fourteen days, when decisions matter most. We presented both at HDI’s Homeland Defense Awareness Symposium in Colorado Springs in June 2026. Each study is available as an executive summary, a full final report, and supporting appendices.
Private-Sector Lifelines in the Arctic
Predicting and Assessing Risk to Critical Infrastructure
How privately operated lifeline systems (fuel, food, transportation, communications, medical supply, and supply-chain distribution) hold up when Arctic homeland defense depends on them under contested conditions. The study tests those systems against a dual-theater disruption and consolidates its findings into six conclusions, starting with fuel as the master dependency, with recommendations for the near, mid, and long term.
Continuity of Society in the North
Multi-Modal Resiliency in Arctic Defense
The companion study. Where Private-Sector Lifelines traces what happens to systems, this one traces what happens to people: military families, the civilian and contractor workforce, tribal and Alaska Native communities, and the civil-military governance that connects them. It treats those human systems as operational factors in mission assurance and sets out six conclusions, starting with continuity of society as a prerequisite for continuity of operations.
This publication was sponsored by the Homeland Defense Institute. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the views of the United States Air Force Academy, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command, the Department of Defense, or the United States Government.
PSEMA Research Webinar Series · Tuesdays at 3:00 p.m. ET · Begins November 10, 2026
Would Your Redundancy Actually Hold?
Twelve live sessions on our Arctic research for the Homeland Defense Institute, in two parts. Part One Arctic Lifelines: From Findings to Coordination, works through Private-Sector Lifelines in the Arctic from November 10 to January 5. Part Two Human Lifelines: From Households to Mission Assurance works through Continuity of Society in the North from January 12 to February 16. Each session puts the sectors that share a failure pathway in the same room: a short presentation of the finding, a practitioner discussant on what it looks like from their seat, and open discussion under PSEMA’s non-attribution norms. Pick the sessions that match your sector.
When: Tuesdays, 3:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. CT, 1:00 p.m. MT, noon PT, 11:00 a.m. Alaska, 10:00 a.m. Hawaii). Live on Zoom, 60 minutes.
Arctic Lifelines: From Findings to Coordination
| Topic | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Fuel & Energy: The Master Dependency | November 10, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Transportation, Supply Chain & Food: Substitution and the Cascade | November 17, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Medical & Pharmaceutical: The Day-Zero Problem | December 1, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Communications & Workforce: The Cross-Cutting Force Degraders | December 8, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Governance Friction and the Day-Zero Adjudication Problem | December 15, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Coordination Architecture and Pre-Staged Authority | January 5, 2027 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
No session the week of November 23. Part One breaks for the holidays after December 15 and closes with Session 6 on January 5, 2027.
Human Lifelines: From Households to Mission Assurance
| Topic | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Continuity of Society Is the Prerequisite | January 12, 2027 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Family Readiness and the Workforce-Family Feedback Loop | January 19, 2027 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Workforce Continuity and Behavioral Health: The Ceiling on Surge | January 26, 2027 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Governance Friction and the Days 3 to 7 Inflection | February 2, 2027 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| Whole-of-Society Preparedness and the Arctic Rising Generation | February 9, 2027 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
| From Society to Mission Assurance: Building the Connective Architecture | February 16, 2027 | 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT |
