Fact Sheet 2: List of Events for Exercise SG Ready 2025

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Cybersecurity Resilience Guide by Singapore Institute of Directors (SID)
 
The SID has launched a Cyber Resilience Guide for Boards in Singapore to provide frameworks and actionable principles to help board directors strengthen their organisations’ cyber resilience and equip them with practical strategies to mitigate cyber risks and navigate evolving cyber security challenges.

Singapore Institute of Directors
12 Feb 2025

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SAF Operational Response Exercise @Selarang Camp

The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will be conducting an Operational Response Exercise at Selarang Camp, featuring the recall and force preparations of Army standby personnel. These personnel will be activated on immediate notice to return to camp and to exercise a joint operations scenario alongside the SPF in a simulated period of heightened threat.

This exercise validates the SAF’s ability to effectively recall and deploy standby forces to maintain public order and security alongside the SPF.

It showcases the how the SAF, Home Team Agencies, and other stakeholders work together in event of national emergencies. It also reinforces the message that total defence is a collective effort involving both military personnel and civilians.

Selarang Camp
15 Feb 2025, 1000hrs

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Recall Exercise by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF)
The RSAF will conduct a Recall Exercise involving personnel from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Command (UC). The affected personnel will report back to RSAF camps to perform mobilisation activities.

The exercise ensures that the RSAF personnel can be quickly activated when required, simulating a real emergency scenario. This high level of readiness is crucial for Singapore’s defence readiness.

Murai Camp
15 Feb 2025

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Total Defence Day Commemoration Event at Singapore Business Federation (SBF) Center
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr Gan Kim Yong will be the Guest-of-Honour. DPM Gan will deliver a Total Defence Day speech and kick start ESR 2025 at the annual TDDCE held at SBF Center this year.
DPM Gan will be briefed on the phishing exercise (co-organised by MINDEF and SBF; refer to Fact Sheet 1) that will be conducted from 15 to 28 February 2025 for about 200 businesses, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This exercise strengthens their cyber resilience and reviews their business continuity plans in face of potential cyberattacks and other disruptions.
DPM Gan will also view SBF’s simulated power disruption, SCDF’s Lift Rescue Capabilities and SP Group’s Mobile Generator at the TDDCE.

Singapore Business Federation Center
15 Feb 2025, 1300hrs

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Total Defence @ SAFRA
This is part of a two-week long event (refer to Factsheet 3) by SAFRA for NSmen and their families to learn about Total Defence and be more prepared for disruptions and emergencies.

Key highlights during the weekend include: (i) a showcase of PUB’s water wagon; and (ii) a Cyber Safety Quest, where participants will embark on an interactive learning journey and learn how to protect themselves from cyberthreats like phishing and malware.

Various SAFRA Clubs
15-28 Feb 2025

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Switching off Façade Lights by Buildings
Over 30 buildings will switch off their façade lights to simulate a power disruption caused by a cyberattack on 15 February.

These activities help to simulate what a city-wide power disruption might look like (realistic visual impact at a smaller scale), preparing both the public and businesses for real life blackout situations. It encourages building owners, businesses, and residents to think about contingency plans, such as back-up power sources and energy conservation measures. This would also be helpful to test out crisis management strategies of buildings and organisations in handling sudden power loss.

Various Locations
15 Feb 2025, Commences at 2000hrs

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Exercise Heartbeat by the Singapore Police Force (SPF)
 
The SPF will be conducting a counterterrorism and emergency preparedness exercise codenamed "Exercise Heartbeat” at the Marsiling Mall Hawker Centre, simulating a complex terror attack scenario involving self-radicalised individuals targeting a bustling heartland area.

This exercise reminds community partners to periodically review their security measures, familiarise and validate their contingency plans, and enhance their emergency preparedness. This can be done through efforts such as exercising vigilance and equipping themselves with the relevant knowledge and skillsets.

In addition, this exercise also helps to strengthen partnerships between SPF, SCDF and community stakeholders in responding to unexpected attacks, and serves as a good opportunity for the community to practice the key SGSecure advisories like "Run, Hide, Tell" and "Press, Tie, Tell" (improvised first aid).

Marsiling Mall Hawker Centre
15 Feb 2025, 1000hrs

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Food Resilience Preparedness Programme by Singapore Food Agency

This year, the Food Resilience Preparedness Programme (FRPP) (Refer to Fact Sheet 6) will be rolled out to more than 90 secondary schools, pre-universities, and the Institute of Technical Education, involving over 100,000 students and teachers. Participants will consume the meals at ambient temperatures to better simulate a disruption scenario where no gas or electricity provision is available for the reheating of meals. Students will also be educated on the importance of food resilience and the relevance of Ready-To-Eat (RTE) meals with resources co-developed by MOE and Singapore Food Agency (SFA).

Expansion of FRPP into the community

In addition to participating schools, SFA will also be expanding the FRPP to the community to raise awareness of the importance of food security and adaptability in the event of supply disruptions. SFA will be partnering the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) to distribute the RTE meals to seniors at Active Ageing Centres (AACs), where they can enjoy these RTE meals during their regular communal dining programme under the Ministry of Health’s Age Well SG initiative. There will be over 8,000 seniors across 111 centres who will participate in the programme.

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Hewlett Packard (HP) Singapore’s Total Defence Commemoration Event
In commemoration of Total Defence Day and as part of their participation in ESR 2025, HP Singapore’s employees will undergo several programmes including a phishing exercise, a simulated cyberattack from ransomware, and a test of HP’s emergency business continuity plan for power outages.

To demonstrate how businesses can also look out and caring for others in the community in times of crises, HP Singapore will also showcase the activities conducted by their Social Impact Committee, which includes their collaboration with the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) for the corporate adoption of an Active Ageing Centre (AAC), as part of their broader commitment to supporting care for the vulnerable and enhancing the quality of life for the residents in the community.

Hewlett Packard Office
17 Feb 2025, 1200hrs

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Quantedge Table-Top Exercise (TTX) for Financial Sector
Quantedge Capital will coordinate a financial sector focused TTX to bring together large, reputable multinational and local financial institutions to discuss responses to power disruptions and cybersecurity threats.

17 Feb 2025

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Community Resilience Day (East Coast GRC)
The People’s Association will tie-in Exercise SG Ready with their Community Resilience Day at East Coast GRC on 23 February 2025.

East Coast GRC
23 Feb 2025

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Disruption Exercises in Schools by the Ministry of Education (MOE)
In line with Exercise SG Ready’s scenario of power disruption and in collaboration with the Energy Market Authority (EMA), MOE has developed resources for schools to engage students on resilience in the face of possible power disruptions, as part of the commemoration of Total Defence Day. Schools at the primary, secondary and pre-university levels are also encouraged to participate in Exercise SG Ready, through a simulation of power supply disruptions, or food or water disruptions which result from a prolonged power outage. Complementing the experience for secondary schools and pre-universities that take part in the food disruption exercise are the Ready-To-Eat meals distributed by Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and SATS.

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