HSEEP-Certificated Staff · Master Exercise Practitioners · 20+ Years of Experience

Real-world ready
starts here.

Ascenttra designs exercises that expose real gaps, training that sticks, and plans that hold up when it matters. We serve government agencies, hospital systems, airports, and critical infrastructure — and we build everything around your plans, your people, and your environment.

Why Ascenttra

Built differently. By design.

Capable
HSEEP-certificated. MEP-credentialed.

Every Ascenttra staff member is HSEEP-certificated. Most hold Master Exercise Practitioner (MEP) credentials — the field's highest practitioner standard. When you work with us, you work with people who know exactly what they're doing.

Comprehensive
We go deeper than anyone else.

Dedicated project and deputy leads on every engagement. Plans-to-Practice Analysis. Evaluator Reference Guides. Corrective Action Tracking System (CATS). Bulletproof After-Action Reports (AARs). No shortcuts, no gaps.

Cost-Effective
Scalable to your budget. Zero fluff.

No office overhead, no markup on middlemen. Our remote-first model passes savings directly to you. Local staff when you need boots on the ground. Scalable to your budget with no long procurement processes.

Innovative
We build our own tools. For your mission.

ASTRID™ AI. Destination Disaster®. PRAXIS — our Planning, Readiness, Assessment, and eXercise Intelligence System. Ascenttra has invested in proprietary software since 2007 because off-the-shelf tools don't cut it for this work.

What we do

Everything you need. More than you expect.

Ascenttra covers the full preparedness cycle — from writing your plans to designing and conducting your exercises to tracking your corrective actions.

Preparedness Exercises

All seven HSEEP exercise types — seminars through full-scale. In-person and virtual. Defensible AARs every time.

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Training & Instruction

ICS, HSEEP, HICS, EOC, PIO/JIC, HAZMAT. Field-tested instructors. Custom curricula. In-person and virtual.

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Planning

EOPs, COOPs, Facility Plans, Policy Support, and SOPs — built directly into your exercise design.

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ASTRID™ AI

Secure AI built for emergency management. Not a chatbot. Knows your plans, cites its sources, never trains on your data.

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Destination Disaster®

Responder, EOC, and Healthcare — three compatible HSEEP-designed tabletop games. Rewindable, replayable, customized to you.

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Virtual EM Support

Expert EM capacity without the headcount. Exercise design, planning, AARs, scenario development — on your timeline.

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Client results

Don't take our word for it.

"

I don't think in all of my career have I ever seen the high level of kudos going on as I am seeing now with this exercise.

Fairfax County, VA Office of Emergency Management
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The platform was well designed and allowed our team to work through social media response and coordinate across agencies in real time.

Critical Infrastructure Utility Association
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I was impressed by the attention to detail in the simulation, the news flashes, and the professionalism of the controller assigned to our facility. I look forward to working with Ascenttra again.

Healthcare Facility Emergency Manager, Ohio

Your next exercise starts with a conversation.

Call 1-888-MSEL-HLP — a person answers. Email info@ascenttra.com — our staff reads it. No automated systems. No call centers. Just experienced emergency management professionals ready to help.

Talk to an Ascenttra professional

1-888-MSEL-HLP (673-5457) · info@ascenttra.com · www.ascenttra.com