Disaster Planning. Mission Continuity. Operational Readiness.

Federal programs don't fail because of bad policy — they fail because corrective actions don't close, continuity plans sit untouched between exercises, and nobody owns the system once leadership turns over.

Drew Dunham spent 12 years in the U.S. Coast Guard as a Boatswain's Mate First Class — conducting vessel inspections, coordinating ICS-based emergency response, managing compliance programs, and preparing units for re-inspection under FORCECOM and CG-CVC oversight. He worked where gaps aren't theoretical: they show up as open findings, missed COOP activation timelines, and emergency plans that fall apart the first time someone tries to execute them.

He founded Coastal Guardian Solutions to solve the problem he watched repeat for a decade: programs that reset every time the command turned over. The COOP binder gets inherited. The corrective action register goes stale. The new commander is six months from an inspection and nobody can explain what any of it means.

CGS builds the systems that survive that turnover. Emergency preparedness plans that actually function during activation. Corrective action workflows that drive findings to closure. Oversight programs that can demonstrate they work — because someone built the measurement framework and cleared the backlog before the next review cycle. Documentation frameworks that keep programs assessment-ready through leadership changes, oversight cycles, and continuous operational pressure. The model is straightforward: Assess, Build, Exercise & Validate, Sustain.

Drew holds PMP, FEMA Master Continuity Planner, and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certifications. CGS is a certified SDVOSB — built to keep federal agencies ready before the emergency, through the inspection, and after the leadership changes.