After-Action Reporting/Improvement Plan

The Ardent Decisions Group (ADG) is a unique Consulting Company with extensive experience in Whole of Government response, including After-Action Reporting/Improvement Plan (AAR/IP) processes to events at the Academia, Federal, State, Local, and International levels. Our experience supports your organization’s critical efforts to continually improve performance. Our consistently high-level engagement produces the highest quality planning, process improvement, operational execution, assessment, and after-action reporting.

Our team’s relevant leadership experience includes:

Name Involvement Respective Experience
Bill Etter Project Manager for ADG
  • Project Manager for Franklin Regional Council of Governments post-COVID AAR/IP
  • Extensive experience leading large-scale complex AAR/IPs with multiple Federal organizations, Ebola, Zika, Irene, Sandy
  • Complex integrations with outside multiple organizations’ AAR/IPs involved compliance with HSEEP protocols 
Priya Hirway PH Statical
Analysis/Medical Bio-
Statistician
  • Extensive PH analysis experience
  • Multiple IPs to include North Shore Medical Center Salem MA
Scott Rice Advisor
  • Extensive experience leading large-scale complex AAR/IPs with multiple Federal organizations, Boston Marathon Bombing, Jan-Feb 2015 record snowfall
  • Complex integrations with outside multiple organizations’ AAR/IPs involved compliance with HSEEP protocols
Brian Neal Advisor
  • Extensive experience leading large-scale complex AAR/IPs with multiple Federal organizations
  • Superstorm Sandy – Sec of Defense rep for National level Interagency AAR
  • Led National Guard inputs to Deepwater Horizon AAR
  • Complex integrations with outside multiple organizations’ AAR/IPs involved compliance with HSEEP protocols
Scott Furr

Advisor

AAR Facilitator

Lead Technical Writer

  • Extensive experience in participating in large-scale complex  AAR/IPs at FEMA regional and national levels
  • Led municipal AAR/IPs
  • Well-versed in HSEEP compliance
  • Directed two Emergency Operations Director (EOC) operations to tornado and COVID response efforts, provided strategic guidance to municipal officials
  • Conceived, designed, implemented Business Case Analysis and Improvement Plan for Deputy Assistant Secretary of Air Force for Operational Energy
  • Department of Defense liaison to FEMA National Response Coordination Center (NRCC)
  • ICS- 100, 200, 300, 400 & IS 700, 800 
Sheree Etter

PH Analysis/Diversity Officer

  • Extensive experience in vaccine clinic operations
  • Extensive experience with PH epidemiological issues
  • Multiple AARs while 158th Medical Group Commander
  • IP experience, fully trained AFSO 21 graduate
Ron Latorre

Advisor

AAR Facilitator

Quantitative Research

  • Extensive experience in participating in large-scale complex AAR/IPs at FEMA regional and national levels
  • Well-versed in HSEEP compliance  
  • Department of Defense liaison to FEMA National Response Coordination Center (NRCC)  
  • ICS- 100, 200, 300, 400 & IS 700, 800
  • DSCA 1 & 2
Karen Furr Public Health Analysis
  • Extensive experience in vaccine clinic operations
  • Extensive experience with PH epidemiological issues
Randy Neal Contract Requirements

AAR Facilitator

Logistics Specialist

  • Extensive experience in participating in large-scale complex AAR/IPs at FEMA regional and national levels
  • Well-versed in HSEEP compliance
  • Facilitated over 150 AARs
  • Columbia Shuttle Disaster Texas Military Forces Response AAR
  • 9/11Texas Military Forces Response AAR
  • US Regional Embassy, Al-Hilah, Iraq, Joint IED Response Committee AAR
  • Division Warfighter Exercises/AAR: 7
  • Brigade Warfighter Exercises/AAR: 13
  • Battalion Warfighter and Mission Command Exercises/AAR:27

While some consultants might have one or two of these qualifications, we are the only consulting group with all of the qualifications.