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The Blue Cell, LLC The Blue Cell, LLC is a planning company with a primary focus on education and training for government at all levels, non-governmental agencies, and private sector entities engaged in incident and emergency management activities. Secondary initiatives at the company include exercise design and facilitation and planning services. The Blue Cell, LLC also has the capacity to deploy personnel to support planning related operations on real world events.

History Company Beginning: Todd Manns conceptually created and opened The Blue Cell, LLC in 2009. Following the reorganization of many US government agencies in 2003 to form the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), state and local governments had a need to fulfill new personnel training requirements defined by the National Strategy of Homeland Security. In 2005 Todd Manns created Homeland Security Analysis and Consulting. Homeland Security Analysis and Consulting offered Federal Emergency Management Agency authorized courses for state employees of both Colorado and Wyoming.

In 2009, Todd changed the name of the company to The Blue Cell, LLC and developed the Advanced Planning Concept Course to add to the FEMA authorized courses previously provided by Homeland Security Analysis and Consulting. The APC course would be the catalysis to the development and expansion of The Blue Cell, LLC over the subsequent three years.

To solidify The Blue Cell, LLC’s existing platform for real world exercise modules previously offered by the company, The Blue Cell, LLC began working with and eventually purchased Command School, TTX in 2012.

Founder: Todd Manns was born on May 1, 1964 in Anapolis, Maryland. His father’s career kept the family on the move, eventually landing his family in Colorado in the early 1980s.

Todd completed six years of service in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. During his military reserve time, he entered the Police Academy in Colorado where he was the recipient of the high shooter award. He was subsequently hired by the Commerce City, Colorado Police Department in 1993. During his career with the agency, he served on the SWAT team as a firearms instructor and finished his career as a department sniper. He was the recipient of two Letters of Commendation during his years of service.

Between 1997 and 2003 Mr. Manns began providing independent analysis, training services and surveillance on a full-time basis.

Operational Divisions

Training:

The Blue Cell, LLC delivers courses coast to coast and in Alaska. Certified to offer over 70 approved courses and can customize training by request.
 * Advanced Planning Concepts: Developing Incident Action Plans – Our Flagship Course. This two-day session is designed to immerse the participants in the understanding and application of ICS forms, the advanced planning process, and several other critical advanced planning products and techniques.
 * Emergency Management Courses: The G series courses are by design State deliveries of FEMA courses.
 * Position Specific Courses: Developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, position-specific courses expand ICS knowledge and address core position responsibilities in comprehensive, understandable format to prepare participants for real world incidents.
 * Police/First Responder/Hazmat/Hospital Training: Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) courses come from the National Consortium of Domestic Preparedness Providers, National Health Care Systems, Federal Agency curricula and custom curricula developed by The Blue Cell Subject Matter Experts.
 * Incident Command System (ICS): ICS course are the most popular of our courses taught at The Blue Cell, LLC, exceeding 100 deliveries annually. ICS has evolved as the emergency services’ community standard and is accepted nationwide.
 * Emergency Management Software Solutions: The Blue Cell, LLC works closely with several emergency management software and computing solutions acting as a consultant and advisor, trainer, advocate and practitioner.

Exercise:

The Blue Cell, LLC exercise related products are geared for assessing capability and utilize business best practices in specific product sets to stay true to the overarching goal of achieving an honest, comprehensive understanding of capability and improvement. Today, as part of The Blue Cell, LLC, Command School TTX carries forward the original concepts of “Abbottville™” and combine the three-dimensional world the notional 2-dimensional world of Chelsea County USA (a full functioning County website).
 * Command School TTX- In the early 1990's, former Fire Chief Don Abbott developed the model city diorama, “Abbottville™”, to provide training sequences for fire and hazardous materials teams under the name Command Emergency Response Training. Don and his wife, Bev, sold the business to Command School, Inc. in 2001.  The evolution of Abbottville continues as the diorama operated as Command School and, subsequently, Command School TTX after the merger with The Blue Cell, LLC.


 * Chelsea County USA –Chelsea County USA is a fully functional web simulation environment that offers a variety of possibilities to execute full exercises. Unlike Command School TTX, the web simulation environment allows for hundreds of typed resources to be available; fire, law enforcement, EMS, hospitals, schools, public works, an airport, public health and fair ground are all virtually present to create the most realistic training under as many variables as possible.

Consulting:

The Blue Cell, LLC consulting services can take many forms depending on the client’s needs. Adding consulting into client’s existing training and exercise program from the same firm allows for seamless integration of jurisdictions needs and program components.
 * Current Plan Compliance Reviews - The Blue Cell, LLC performs comprehensive reviews of plans for government, airports and large corporations. These plans generally are Emergency, Continuity and Operational based. The Blue Cell can also review specific activities in a jurisdiction, higher education setting, military installation or corporation for compliance with the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) and overall institutionalization of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), National Response Framework, National Infrastructure Protection Plan and the National Planning System.
 * Plan development and production - Cadre members have professional experience in writing emergency response plans, evacuation plans and other governmentally regulated or required documents for both emergency and normal operations.
 * Operational Guidelines Assistance - The development of operational guidelines for specific organizations, such as for newly forming Incident Management Teams.

Deployment: The Blue Cell has response and deployment capabilities. These situations are dependent on the event/incident.

NIMS Store: The NIMS Store is designed to work in and around the National Incident Management’s System’s 5 components: Preparedness, Communications and Information Management, Command and Management, Resource Management and Ongoing Management and Maintenance.

Studio BC.TV: Studio BC.TV will be the official online training destination for The Blue Cell, LLC and all of its varied interests.

Philanthropy: In 2017 The NIMS Store will offer a number of T-shirts in various colors with a proceed from each shirt going a various organizations in support of public servant profession, the military and national disease research efforts.

External Links
 * www.thebluecell.com
 * www.commandschoolttx.com
 * www.thenimssstore.com

Supplemental Information Section

a. Type: Private b. Industry: Homeland Security and Emergency Management c. Founded: July 1st, 2009 d. Founder: Todd Manns e. Headquarters: Aurora, Colorado f. Area Served: United States, US Territories and Southern Canada h. Subsidiaries: Command School TTX and The NIMS Store.com i. Slogan: Tools, Ideas, Training and Real World application of Emergency Management Planning Concepts j. Web portal: www.thebluecell.com K. DUNS: 061046853 L: CAGE: 6nkm5