ELASITY = Continuous Continuity Data Development
Our vision for Elasity LLC is to, for the first time, provide a useful tool to the interagency community that not only establishes compliant, consistent, and comprehensive risk-based Business Process and Impact Analyses, but allows data to be operationalized for decision makers during crisis situations, day-to-day operations, and programmatic/budgetary prioritization efforts. Further, Elasity will be the only software establishing the foundation to solve the long-elusive problem of understanding interdependencies across the government, external supply chain providers, and critical infrastructure sectors. Elasity is Resilience Simplified. It is the first step in truly creating a culture of mission resilience that can replace the superficiality of compliance-driven resilience efforts.
Why Elasity?
Elasity has been developed to fill a persistent void in federal mission resilience planning by providing a scalable and standardized means to baseline government business processes and establish consistent metrics for risk analyses. Further, Elasity is the only tool solving the elusive "Rosetta Stone" of continuity planning: interagency dependencies. Elasity has leveraged our over 30 years’ continuity experience as federal program managers, practitioners, consultants, and subject matter experts across all three branches of government. Our team has incorporated this expertise into an easy-to-use software tool for building federal mission resilience.
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How does Elasity work?
Elasity is a licensed product provided to Departments and Agencies (D/As) and scaled to the number of users required, to provide an organization-specific tool. Each D/A will be able to use Elasity to build a comprehensive and compliant foundation for overall mission resilience planning, while also providing national leadership a standardized assessment report. This enterprise-wide consistency will offer invaluable insights into the risks facing essential functions and will assist leaders in sustaining federal missions. As a result, Continuity data will no longer be relegated to a compliance function, but serve daily operational and programmatic decision making.
Why Now?
Well, because “never” was getting closer and closer. Elasity is being rolled out now to correspond with updates to federal continuity directives, overarching Federal Mission Resilience initiatives, pervasive inconsistencies in federal risk management planning related to resilience, and increasing budgetary and appropriations demands for risk-based resilience qualifiers. Simply stated, it’s never been done before, and the Federal Mission Resilience community needs it.
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