Mission Resilience Protecting mission performance when disruption threatens what matters most.

Critical Path Solutions helps government agencies, healthcare organizations, businesses, and essential service providers identify what must continue, understand the dependencies that support it, and strengthen their ability to operate through disruption.

Through continuity planning, emergency preparedness, dependency assessments, training, and exercises, CPS helps organizations move beyond documented readiness toward demonstrated performance.

Core capabilities Protect What Matters. Sustain What Must Continue.

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Continuity & Emergency Preparedness

Identify essential functions, establish operational priorities, and develop actionable plans for maintaining services, managing disruption, and recovering operations.

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Critical Dependencies & Operational Resilience

Map the people, technology, data, facilities, infrastructure, suppliers, and partners essential to delivery. Identify single points of failure and practical alternatives.

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Workforce Readiness, Training & Exercises

Examine staffing, knowledge, authority, access, and backup capacity. Prepare personnel, test decisions and handoffs, and turn findings into corrective actions.

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Cyber & Technology Disruption Readiness

Examine the operational consequences of losing critical digital systems. Prepare workarounds and test decisions, coordination, and recovery alongside technical specialists.

Experience Experience That Supports Mission Performance

CPS brings federal preparedness and continuity experience to the practical challenges of sustaining critical operations.

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Federal Health & Preparedness

CPS has supported the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services with continuity planning, training and exercises, emergency notification activities, and emergency preparedness coordination. Our broader HHS-related work informs an approach attentive to interconnected workforce, technology, supply, and regulatory dependencies.

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Preparedness, Continuity & Critical Operations

CPS experience includes preparedness, continuity, coordination, training, and exercise support in federal and other mission-focused environments, including the Department of Energy Transportation Emergency Preparedness Program and U.S. Army Installation Management Command.

How CPS Works From Preparedness to Demonstrated Performance

Understand

Define essential outcomes and minimum service needs. Identify the critical functions and dependencies that support them.

Prepare

Strengthen plans, people, decision authorities, partnerships, and alternative ways to deliver essential services.

Validate

Test decisions and operational assumptions through assessments and exercises, then assign corrective actions and reassess.

READINESS CHECK How Resilient Is Your Mission?

Having a plan does not prove that an essential function can continue when a key employee, technology system, supplier, or facility becomes unavailable.

The CPS Mission Resilience Readiness Check provides a structured starting point for discussing mission operations, people and leadership, technology and cyber, data and compliance, infrastructure and supply chains, and preparedness and recovery.

It helps identify potential gaps and determine where a closer, evidence-based assessment may be useful. It is not a certification of operational readiness.

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Leadership and teaming Federal Experience. Practical Operational Perspective.

Led by Mark Dozier, a former Department of Homeland Security preparedness branch chief and U.S. Army veteran, CPS brings an operational perspective to continuity, emergency preparedness, and mission performance.

We work with organizations, prime contractors, and specialized partners on dependency assessments, preparedness planning, stakeholder coordination, training, exercises, and improvement efforts.

Contact What Must Your Organization Keep Delivering?

Every mission depends on people, systems, resources, and decisions. What happens when one becomes unavailable?

Contact CPS to discuss essential functions, operational vulnerabilities, readiness needs, or a teaming opportunity.