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KDEM TEPW KDEM TEPW OVERVIEWOVERVIEW

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

2.1.1Define capabilities-based planning

2.1.2Describe a capabilities assessment

2.1.3Explain how to identify exercise program priorities

2.1.4Conduct a jurisdictional analysis

2.1.5Explain how to implement an exercise program strategy

“Capabilities-based planning is defined as planning, under uncertainty, to build capabilities suitable for a wide range of

threats and hazards while working within an economic framework that

necessitates prioritization and choice.”

Target Capabilities List (TCL) Version 2.0August 2005

Homeland Security Strategy

PrioritiesMulti-Year

Training and Exercise Plan

Improvement Plans

Capabilities Assessment

Baseline assessment against known threats, capabilities, and vulnerabilities

Emphasizes training and exercising of specific capabilities to address gaps, excesses, or deficiencies in preparedness capabilities

Capabilities Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield

explosives (CBRNE) detection Emergency Operations Center (EOC) management

Needs Private and public sector response coordination Common operating terminology

Threats/Hazards Nuclear and chemical plants Hurricanes

Previous Training and Exercise Experience Top Officials (TOPOFF) Exercise Series National Incident Management System (NIMS) Independent Study

(IS)-700 Course

Priorities are developed using information from your:

Capabilities Assessment

Improvement Plans (IPs) from previous exercises

Used to guide and write the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan

IPs help define and develop your priorities

Items designated as needing improvement should be included as priorities

An analysis of Americana’s IPs revealed an emphasis on strengthening CBRNE capabilities, regional

collaboration issues, and NIMS compliance.

Priority 1 – Strengthen CBRNE Detection, Response, and Decontamination Capabilities

Priority 2 – Expand Regional Collaboration

Priority 3 – Implement NIMS and the NRF

Priorities are used to guide formulation of training and exercise schedule and should link back to State and National Priorities.

Components of your preparedness strategy include:

Exercises: seminar, workshop, tabletop, game, drill, functional, and full-scale

Policies, plans, and procedures

Training

Equipment

Personnel

Discussion Based

Operations Based

Example 1 Example 2

Example 3

Seminar

TTX Workshop

Workshop

FSE Drill

TTX

FSE FE

Based on priorities identified, Americana will improve capabilities to respond to a CBRNE incident by:

Conducting relevant training

Employing a cycle, mix, and range of exercises

Purpose

Translate priorities into specific objectives and exercises

Coordinate exercise activities

Track IP actions against current capabilities, training, and exercises

Identify and coordinate possible funding sources

Who?

When?

Why?

Assess capabilities and preparedness levels of participating agencies.

Identify a cycle of exercises that increase in complexity to improve capabilities.

Prepare a Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan and Schedule.

Outlines:

Program priorities

Target capabilities

Training courses or focus

Exercises

Contains the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

Graphically illustrates the training and exercise schedules in the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan.

Should reflect a building-block progression of capabilities.

Emphasis placed on coordination between all jurisdictions.

Uses a combination of exercises to accomplish program goals and objectives.

Uses a building-block approach that exposes participants to increasingly complex exercises.

Training is tied to exercises so that training objectives are achieved or validated.

Priority: To strengthen CBRNE detection, response, and decontamination capabilities.

Capability: CBRNE detection and WMD/HazMat response and decontamination.

Implementation: Awareness-level training, tabletop exercise (TTX), and full-scale exercise (FSE).

Link to National Exercise Schedule (NEXS): https://hseep.dhs.gov

Facilitates cooperation and collaboration among Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies conducting exercises

Tool used to track the scheduling of all exercises

Comprehensive calendar for all Federal, State, local, and tribal exercises

Types…….Discussion-Based Exercises: are normally used as a

starting point in the building-block approach of escalating exercise complexity. Discussion-based exercises include seminars, workshops, tabletop exercises (TTXs), and games. These types of exercises typically highlight existing plans, policies, interagency/inter-jurisdictional agreements, and procedures.

Operations-Based Exercises : exercises represent the next level of the exercise cycle. They are used to validate the plans, policies, agreements, and procedures solidified in discussion-based exercises. Operations-based exercises include drills, functional exercises (FEs), and full-scale exercises (FSEs).

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Discussion Based:Seminars: informal discussions,

unconstrained by real-time portrayal of events and led by a presenter. They are generally employed to orient participants to, or provide an overview of, authorities, strategies, plans, policies, procedures, protocols, response resources, and/or concepts and ideas

Workshops: differ from seminars in two important respects: participant interaction is increased, and the focus is on achieving or building a product (such as a draft plan or policy).

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Discussion Based continued:Tabletop Exercises: TTXs involve key

personnel discussing hypothetical scenarios in an informal setting. This type of exercise can be used to assess plans, policies, and procedures or to assess the systems needed to guide the prevention of, response to, and recovery from a defined incident.

Games: A game is a simulation of operations that often involves two or more teams and uses rules, data, and procedures to depict an actual or assumed real-life situation.

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Operations Based:Drill: a coordinated, supervised activity

usually employed to validate a single, specific operation or function in a single agency or organizational entity.

Functional Exercises: Are designed to validate and evaluate individual capabilities, multiple functions, activities within a function, or interdependent groups of functions.

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Operations Based continued: Full-Scale Exercises: is the most complex type of exercise. FSEs are multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional, multi-organizational exercises that validate many facets of preparedness. They focus on implementing and analyzing the plans, policies, procedures, and cooperative agreements developed in discussion-based exercises and honed in previous, smaller, operations-based exercises.

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Appointed in writing Exercise Program Manager, with HSEEP certificate

Participation in 3 exercises of any type between Jan 01 and December 30, reported to KDEM by 30 December on the abbreviated reporting form

TEPW conducted between October 1 and December 30

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4 exercise, 1 per quarter, of any type

A FSE or EOC based exercise once every 3 years

TEPW conducted between July and December

Quarterly report April 10 July 10 October 10 January 10

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Optional for:SeminarsWorkshopsGamesDrills

90 days for TTX

180 days for FE

240 days for FSE

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Required for any exercise directly using EMPG, HLS or HMEP money

90 days for any of the optional exercises in which support is requested

All exercises directly utilizing previous mentioned grant funding will be posted on the NEXS

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Seminar / Game: Sign-In SheetsAgendaCopy of Presentation

Workshop:Sign-In SheetsAgendaCopy of Plan, Policy or Procedure

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TTX / Drill / FE / FSE: Sign-In SheetsAfter Action ReportImprovement Plan

All documentation due NLT 90 days upon exercise completion to be posted on HSEEP Portal

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QUESTIONS?

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