Overview

The Commonwealth of Virginia has five Strategic Communications Caches. These five caches were born out of the lessons learned on 9/11, and the example of the National Capital Region's radio cache. The difference being that the state communications cache is deployable anywhere in the Commonwealth, and is even listed as a state resource for EMAC deployment. All requests for deployment, either for planned events, or emergent events go through the Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) to ensure a coordinated response.