Grant Dillon

Grant has more than 30 years experience as a leader in emergency management and national security programs at the state and national levels.

As the Chief of Staff at FEMA’s National Interagency Civil-Military Institute, Grant guided development of civil-military training and educational programs in emergency management and counter-terrorism.

He conceptualized and guided development of civil-military disaster exercises and distributive learning consequence management to terrorism exercise.

In conjunction with the Superintendent of the U.S. Fire Academy, Grant developed methodology for training first military responders to terrorism incidents.

As a non-resident Professor at the U.S. Naval War College, Grant designed, developed and delivered graduate courses on domestic and international humanitarian relief; and infrastructure protection and homeland defense.

As Chief, Program Support/Plans, Operations, and Readiness at FEMA, Grant developed National Security plans, operations, and maintained readiness in conjunction with Federal Departments, National Security Council, and the White House Military Office.

Grant’s regular managerial assignments on FEMA Emergency Support and Emergency Response Teams included 5 hurricanes; the Northridge earthquake, and the Oklahoma City bombing.

As the Director of Emergency Management and Medical Resource Sharing Service for the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs [DVA], Grant wrote and defended legislation for use of VA medical care facilities in time of war or catastrophic disaster.

He was a member of a three-person principal team that conceptualized, designed and implemented the National Disaster Medical System.

Grant served on the Emergency Mobilization Preparedness Board of the National Security Council where he was responsible for medical and earthquake planning.

Grant’s unique achievements include: conceptualization and implementation of both the DVA/DOD Contingency Hospital System – the National Disaster Medical System – and what was to become the Federal Response Plan.