KAY C. GOSS, CEM^®^

**Director of Emergency Management and Crisis Communications**

**SRA International**

**Fairfax, Virginia**

**kay_goss@sra.com**

Ms. Kay C. Goss is the Director of Emergency Management and Crisis
Communications for Systems and Research Applications International
(SRA). Her work at SRA includes managing the personnel, resources,
strategy, and partnerships for the company's robust practice areas of
Training and Exercises; Crisis Communications; Emergency Response and
Recovery; Emergency Preparedness and Planning; State and Local Emergency
Management; and Environmental Emergency Management, as well as building
practices in emergency management for institutions of higher education,
the private sector, and international clients.

SRA is a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting
services and solutions---including systems design, development, and
integration, and outsourcing and managed services---to clients in
national security, civil government, and healthcare and public health
markets. The company also delivers business solutions for contingency
and disaster response planning, information assurance, business
intelligence, environmental strategies, enterprise architecture,
infrastructure management, and wireless integration.

Before joining SRA in 2007, Ms. Goss served as the Senior Advisor for
Public Safety and Security Government Solutions, including Homeland
Security, Emergency Management, and Business Continuity, at Electronic
Data Systems Corporation, the global technology company. She was
responsible for several areas of practice: business continuity;
emergency management; homeland security; international partnerships;
emergency operations centers technology; cyber security; and State and
local government.

Ms. Goss served as the Associate FEMA Director in charge of the National
Preparedness, Training and Exercises Directorate from 1994--2001. She
was responsible for the Nation's readiness for natural and manmade
disasters; for building State and local emergency preparedness capacity
through development of plans and procedures; and for building the
emergency management profession through training Federal, State, and
local emergency managers in mitigation, preparedness, response, and
recovery functions. Ms. Goss also developed academic degree programs for
institutions of higher education; tested personnel plans, procedures,
and equipment through a nationwide program of exercises; and managed
directorate operations with a budget of \$3 million and staff of 500.
From 1982--1993, Ms. Goss was the Senior Assistant for Intergovernmental
Relations for the Governor of Arkansas. She coordinated policy and
constituent outreach for the cabinet agencies that had responsibility
for emergency management, fire service, law enforcement, public safety,
and criminal justice.

Ms. Goss is the President of the Foundation for Higher Education
Accreditation for Emergency Management and Homeland Security from
2005--present. She is also a founder of the FEMA Higher Education
Program (1995); Vice President and Director of School Emergency
Preparedness Programs, EVERY CHILD IS OURS Foundation; and chair of the
Education and Training Committee of the International Association of
Emergency Managers.

Ms. Goss has published numerous articles in various journals and is
working on several books. She is the recipient of several awards: Kay
Goss Women's Health Center, new women's health center and residential
complex on the campus of the Mills Treatment Center for Alcoholism and
Drug Abuse in Arkansas (2004); Fulbright Distinguished Alum of 2006,
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Arkansan of the Year, Health
Resources of Arkansas (2000); and Senior Executives in State and Local
Government Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University (1983).

Ms. Goss holds a B.A. and an M.A. in public administration and political
science from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. She has
participated in doctoral studies in public administration at West
Virginia University--Morgantown, with specializations in public finance,
evaluation, State and local government, and criminal justice; and in
American history at American University, Washington, DC.