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title: NUARI and Meridian Strategic Services Inc. enter into a strategic partnership - NUARI
description: This partnership combines the expertise of Meridian’s experienced emergency management and security professionals with NUARI’s DECIDE® distributed exercise platform to provide a unique and challenging experience designed to enhance the capabilities of organizations to respond to the challenges of a future disaster. %
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# [NUARI and Meridian Strategic Services Inc. enter into a strategic partnership - NUARI](https://nuari.org/news/nuari-and-meridian-strategic-services-inc-enter-into-a-strategic-partnership)

 Written by [Jakon Hays](https://nuari.org/news/author/jakon-hays) | Apr 28, 2021 4:00:00 AM

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Norwich University Applied Research Institutes (NUARI) and Meridian Strategic Services, Inc. have entered into a strategic partnership to help our clients prepare for future cybersecurity incidents and other complex hazards.

This partnership combines the expertise of Meridian’s experienced emergency management and security professionals with NUARI’s DECIDE® distributed exercise platform to provide a unique and challenging experience designed to enhance the capabilities of organizations to respond to the challenges of a future disaster.

The DECIDE® platform enables decision makers from geographically separated organizations to participate in a virtual environment to test their plans and procedures under a wide variety of simulated conditions.

Meridian and NUARI can help design realistic crisis management scenarios intended to challenge an organization’s team to work together to rapidly implement integrated solutions to complex problems.

Learn more about NUARI’s [DECIDE](https://nuari.org/decide/) platform.

Learn more about how [Meridian Strategic Services](https://www.meridianstrategicserv.com/) can help your organization prepare for its next challenge.

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