# Presentation: 106118

## Emergency Management Issues Special Interest Group Meeting

**May 2008 – Reston, Virginia **

## Exercise Builder is intended to be an easy-to-use tool to assist individuals or groups developing DOE emergency exercises, drills and the required documentation.

## Step-by-Step

- Provides a step-by-step, prompted guide to developing the documents required for an exercise package.

## Stores specific site and ERO participant information that is automatically inserted into the exercise package. 

**Site Information**

## Contains pre-developed objectives, response steps, evaluation criteria, and evaluator checklists items for:

** **Incident Command (IC)
-  Duty Officer
-  Joint Information Center
-  Fire Department (FD)
-  Security Force
-  Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
-  Assembly Station
-  Field Monitoring Team Coordinating Center (FMT-CC)
-  Field Monitoring Team (FMT)
-  Technical Support Center (TSC)
-  Emergency Operation Center (EOC)
-  Combined TSC and EOC
-  NNSA/DOE HQ Watch Office and Operations
-  Radiological Assistance Program

## What is new in Exercise Builder 2008?

**Step 14 – After Action Reporting (AAR)**

- Allows for the entering of the Exercise Summary, Scenario and results from the evaluation of objectives.
- Also allows for the entering of exercise Findings, Improvement Items, Superior Performance and Noteworthy Practices.
- Generates multiple reports based on exercise evaluation results to be included as part of your After Action Report.

## What is new in Exercise Builder 2008?

**The reports that can be generated in Step 14 based on user-entered information:**
-   Exercise Summary
-   Exercise Scenario
-   Performance Summary
-   Participant Performance Summary
-   Participant List and Levels of Participation
-   Findings
-   Improvement Items
-   Superior Performance
-   Noteworthy Practices
-   Exercise Objectives

## What is new in Exercise Builder 2008?

**Other modifications to Exercise Builder 2007 for the 2008 version**:
- Added the capability for users to add additional text to the system-generated exercise purpose statement in Step 2 - Scope.
- The Objectives Editor now allows the user to edit response steps for user created objectives and response steps.
- Added core objectives for the following state, county, city and tribal exercise participants:
-   County, City, and State Emergency Operations Centers
-   City and County Fire Departments
-   City and County Law Enforcement Agency
-   City and County Hospital/Medical Facility
-   State Duty Officer

## Exercise Builder Development Cycle

**June – Oct – Develop beta version for next release **
**Oct. – Email User Survey to current users**
**Nov./Oct. – Task group meets to determine and finalize changes for next release**
**Dec - April – Program approved changes**
**May  – Release updated version at SIG Meeting**

**Exercise Builder Development Cycle**

## 2007-2008 Exercise Builder Task Group:

**Need Task Group Members for 2008 - 2009**

-   Thomas Aloisi, B&W Y-12
-   Patricia Billy, LLNL
-   Charlie Brown, EOTA
-   Dorothy Cohen, ORISE
-   William Hawkins, DOE HQ
-   Gregory Horton, INL
-   Ken Keaton, TEPP
-   John Mitchell, DOE HQ
-   Robert Murawski, MEI
-   Terry Nore, B&W Y-12
-   Monique Sanchez, LANL
-   David Stuhan, NTS

##   Thomas Aloisi, B&W Y-12 

-   Patricia Billy, LLNL
-   Charlie Brown, EOTA
-   Dorothy Cohen, ORISE
-   William Hawkins, DOE HQ
-   Gregory Horton, INL
-   Ken Keaton, TEPP
-   John Mitchell, DOE HQ
-   Robert Murawski, MEI
-   Terry Nore, B&W Y-12
-   Monique Sanchez, LANL
-   David Stuhan, NTS - 2008

- 2007 – 2008 Exercise Builder  Task Group

## To request a copy of Exercise Builder go to the Exercise Builder Web site:

- _http://www.orau.gov/emi/exercisebuilder_

**To Request a Copy**

- Or

**Come by the Exercise Builder display in the TRADEing Post.**

## Need Vista users to help test Exercise Builder for Vista Beta. Come by the Exercise Builder display at the Trading Post