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2024 Annual Report

Key Accomplishments

  • Launched the new version of Husky Ready online continuity planning tool to make the planning process easier and provide more in-depth
    information for departments using the plan during and after a disruption.
  • Introduced BARC cohorts, small groups that work together with BARC facilitation to create their continuity plans.
  • Established a cross-functional, enterprise-wide group of stakeholders to share lessons learned from incidents and disruptions on a quarterly basis.
  • Helped develop the annual Board of Regents exercise with continuity specific objectives.
  • Updated the BARC website with a significant amount of new and
    revised content.

BARC cohorts begin

A group of employees meet around a table and look at laptop computers while they work on their department's business continuity plans.

To facilitate improved content in Husky Ready plan, the BARC Program Office introduced a new option for building a continuity plan: BARC cohorts.

These small groups work together to develop their plans meeting on a scheduled basis over several months in a collaborative environment to learn from each other and share best practices.

The first cohort launched in March 2025 and is scheduled to end in August 2025.

2024 Program Objectives and Status

  • Develop and facilitate at least one exercise with a continuity focus.
    Status: Met
  • Update BARC website content. Status: Met
  • Complete transition of UW-IT continuity project deliverables to the Husky Ready platform. Status: In Progress
  • Develop and socialize to stakeholders a continuity program framework and the new University policy requiring continuity
    plans (APS 13.2). Status: In Progress

Plans

In progress

  • Research – Human Subjects Division
  • UAA – Experiential Learning
  • Office of Animal Welfare
  • Disability Services
  • Comparative Medicine
  • School of Social Work
  • Applied Physics Lab
  • WA National Primate Research Center
  • Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies
  • College of Arts & Sciences
  • Student Life – Recreation
  • iSchool
  • School of Dentistry

Completed plans

  • Naval Science
  • Odegaard Writing & Research Center

2025 Program Objectives

  1. Target key departments to initiate planning
  2. Collaborate with UWEM on development of standard After Action Report tool and process
  3. Develop Husky Ready plan summary report
  4. Continue BARC planning cohorts

Questions? Need help with your continuity plan?

Contact Jim Tritten, Continuity & Resiliency Program Manager, jtritten@uw.edu