# Presentation: 153657

## Training and Exercise Plan Workshop (T&EPW)

**Notes:**
POC should welcome everyone and provide introductions.

## Today’s Agenda

- 0800	Registration
- 0830	Welcome and Introductions
- 0915  	Capabilities-Based Planning
- 0945	Introduction to Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan
- 1015	Sample Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan
- 1045	Break
- 1100	State/Urban Area Strategy and Capabilities-Based Planning
- 1200	Working Lunch
- 1230	Development of Training and Exercise Schedule
- 1530	Adjourn

**Notes:**
Participants 

## Welcome and Introductions

## T&EPW Goals

- Discuss priorities from Homeland Security Strategy and previous year’s Improvement Plans
- Translate priorities and their associated capabilities into training and exercise activities
- Develop and/or update Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan
- Coordinate training and exercise schedules
- Improve coordination between training and exercises

**Notes:**
Today is a forum for developing, reviewing, and updating the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan and Schedule.  It is one of the key elements of HSEEP because it is an opportunity for the State/Urban Area to discuss its Homeland Security Strategy and develop a plan to increase preparedness through training and exercises  It allows the jurisdiction as a whole to translate goals and priorities into specific objectives and exercises, coordinate exercise activities, and track improvement plan actions against current capabilities, training, and exercises.
The purpose of the T&EPW is to review program accomplishments to date.  Jurisdictions review their progress and accomplishments over the last year.  They should then identify needed modifications such as areas of the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule that need updating.
A large part of the workshop will be spent scheduling exercises.  The workshop provides and excellent opportunity for regions and counties to coordinate exercises to avoid duplication and pool resources.
The T&EPW is an ideal time to coordinate exercises that are grant deliverables, mandated by different Federal agecies.

## Capabilities-Based Planning

## 
“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 2.0
August 2005

- “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 2.0
- August 2005

- Capabilities-Based Planning

**Notes:**
Capabilities-based planning focuses on uncertainty.  Since we cannot be completely certain of what threat or hazard will occur, it is important to build capabilities that can be applied to a wide variety of incidents.  The Target Capabilities List defines capabilities-based planning 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.”

## Capabilities-Based Planning

- Target Capabilities
- Identify the capabilities needed to prevent, protect against, respond to and recover from incidents of national significance
- Derived from the UTL
- In the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan, capabilities will be identified that support and are necessary to successfully implement the chosen State/Urban Area priorities

**Model 1: Evolution of Capabilities-Based Planning**

**TCL**

**HSPD-8**

**Notes:**
Looking at the 15 National Planning Scenarios, a Universal Task List was developed with the critical tasks that must be accomplished to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from each scenario.  These tasks were then examined from the standpoint of HOW they would be accomplished.  The result of that analysis is the Target Capabilities List (TCL), which includes 37 target capabilities.  
The TCL has since been broken down to into missions.  Each mission classifies the target capabilities as either Common Target Capabilities,  Prevent Mission Area Target Capabilities, Protect Mission Area Target Capabilities, Respond Mission Area Target Capabilities, or Recover Mission Area Target Capabilities.

In the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan, capabilities will be identified that support and are necessary to successfully implement the chosen State/Urban Area Priorities.

## Why Capabilities-based Planning?

- Provides direct linkages, through the capabilities, between equipment, plans, training, and exercises
- Provides a strategic approach to the types of training and exercise activities selected and scheduled
- Addresses uncertainty by planning, training and exercising to capabilities rather then constantly trying to predict the next threat or hazard
- Provides the foundation for developing training and exercise objectives, determining the conditions and scenarios that should be included and addressed in exercises, and identifying sets of capabilities and tasks to evaluate during an exercise

## Training and Exercise Cycle

**Notes:**
The creation of capabilities-based exercise programs should being with a Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan and Schedule, with strategies overlapping training and exercise activities established as priorities.  This Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan and Schedule should focus on the seven National Preparedness Priorities outlined in the National Preparedness Goal as well as relevant State and local preparedness priorities.

## Strategy/Plan

**Notes:**
A jurisdiction can address capability-specific priorities by conducting an annual improvement planning conference.

## Capabilities-Based Planning Structure

**Homeland Security Strategy**

**Priorities**

**Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan**

**Improvement Plans**

**Capabilities Assessment**

**Notes:**
This chart is a visible representation of what documents/items must be taken into consideration while developing the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan.  Each block is used to build or feed the next, and in turn used to build the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan. A capabilities assessment is conducted, and along with a review of Improvement Plans, State/Urban Area Priorities are identified which form the foundation of the State/Urban Area Homeland Security Strategy.  Keeping in mind the priorities as described in the Homeland Security Strategy, the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan is developed.  For each priority contained in the plan, associated target capabilities, and the training and exercises that support or enable those capabilities, are identified.

## Improvement Planning

- Converts lessons learned and recommendations from the exercise After Action Report/Improvement Plan into concrete, measurable actions
- Tracks corrective actions to completion by assigning responsibility and due dates
- Previous year improvement plans should contribute to priorities that need to be trained and exercised against in next year’s Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan

**Notes:**
Once participating State/Urban Areas have had time to implement post-exercise improvement actions, a new cycle of exercise activities can begin, to test and improve capabilities further.  It is through this cycle of continuous improvement that exercises prepare our national for all hazards.  Without effective evaluation and improvement planning, these benefits could not be realized.

## Capabilities Assessment

- Identify capabilities of the State/Urban Area (may still need improvement)
- Review the shortfalls and gaps of the State/Urban Area
- Look at what capabilities are needed to fill the shortfalls and gaps
- Decide what tasks need to be accomplished to achieve the capabilities
- Design exercises that can improve the ability to complete tasks

**Notes:**
An exercise program should begin with a baseline assessment of a State/Urban Area’s known threats, vulnerabilities, and capabilities.  This helps determine where current capabilities stand against national targets (UTL/TCL) and identifies gaps, excesses, and deficiencies in preparedness capabilities.
This is different than threat based planning.  Capabilities-based planning emphasizes training and exercising of specific capabilities rather than specific threats.  The concept is that capabilities are applicable to a wide range of threats and incidents.  

## Identifying Priorities

- Priorities are selected by pulling information from
- Capabilities assessment
- Improvement Plans (IPs) from previous exercises
- Used to write the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan

## National Priorities

- Reflect a limited number of cross-cutting initiatives and critical capabilities that should drive near-term planning and resource allocation efforts
- Intended to guide the Nation’s preparedness efforts to meets its most urgent needs
- Two categories:
- Overarching Priorities
- Capability-Specific Priorities

**Notes:**
Overarching Priorities:  Contribute to the development of multiple capabilities
Capability-Specific Priorities: Build selected capabilities for which the Nation has the greatest need

## National Priorities - Overarching

- Implement the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the National Response Plan (NRP)
- Coordinated and effective response by an appropriate combination of Federal, State, local, tribal, private sector, and nongovernmental agencies
- Expanded Regional Collaboration
- Regional approach to building capabilities
- Implement the Interim National Infrastructure Protection Plan
- Identifying Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource (CI/KR), assessing risk, prioritizing, implementing protective programs, and measuring effectiveness

## National Priorities - Capability-Specific

- Strengthen Information Sharing and Collaboration capabilities
- Strengthen Interoperable Communications capabilities
- Strengthen CBRNE Detection, Response, and Decontamination capabilities
- Strengthen Medical Surge and Mass Prophylaxis capabilities
- Citizen Protection

## State/Urban Area Priorities

- State and Urban Areas should consider National priorities when developing State/Urban Area priorities
- State and Urban Areas should consider collaboration across disciplines, jurisdictions, and agencies when describing the strategies, goals, and objectives within the framework of the mission areas
- Strategies should not only address terrorism, but a broad range of other threats and hazards founded on the ***capabilities-based planning*** approach

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan

- Outlines
- State/Urban Area Priorities
- Improvement Plan reference(s) (if applicable)
- Associated target capabilities
- Training
- Exercises
- Contains the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

**Notes:**
The T&EPW is a forum for developing, reviewing, and updating a Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan and Schedule.  It is one of the key elements of HSEEP because it is an opportunity for the  entire State to discuss its State Homeland Security Strategy and develop a plan to increase preparedness through training and exercises.  It allows the jurisdiction as a whole to translate goals and priorities into specific objectives and exercises, coordinate exercise activities, and track improvement plan actions against current capabilities, training, and exercises.

A large part of the workshop will be spent scheduling exercises.  The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for regions and counties to coordinate exercises to avoid duplication and pool resources.

The T&EPW is an ideal time to coordinate exercises that are grant deliverables, mandated by different Federal agencies.

## Training

- For each priority, list type of training to meet the priority and achieve the associated capabilities
- Identify what training is currently available
- Determine the training that is needed as a prerequisite to planned exercises and to satisfy prior year Improvement Plans
- Ensure a building-block approach to training

**Notes:**
The training section of the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Planshould:
For each priority, list training to meet the priority and achieve the associated capabilities
Identify what training is currently available
Determine the training that is needed as a prerequisite to planned exercises
Ensure a building block approach to training

A follow up meeting will be held with DHS personnel to determine specifically what training the State/Urban Area will conduct in year 1.

## Training

- Training can be identified from a variety of sources, including:
- DHS Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Training Program
- Emergency Management Institute (EMI)
- National Fire Academy (NFA)
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy (FLETC)
- Universities and other educational institutions
- Others

**Notes:**
It is important for attendees at the Training and Exercise Plan Workshop to identify what training is already available and/or scheduled within their local jurisdictions so that it can be included in the schedule.  This information is also beneficial to understand where personnel currently fall with respect to their skills, so that training can be tailored to the appropriate level of complexity.

Attendees should also consider what sources provide what type of training.  There are a multitude of training consortiums available and all should be considered.

## Exercises		

- For each priority, list the type of exercise to meet the priority and achieve the associated capabilities
- Determine the type of exercise that will validate the training received
- Ensure a building-block approach to exercises

## Building-Block Approach
Uses a cycle of increasingly complex exercises
Builds upon lessons learned from previous training and exercises 

- Uses a cycle of increasingly complex exercises
- Builds upon lessons learned from previous training and exercises

- Exercises

**Notes:**
As planning and training increase in complexity, jurisdictions increase their capability to perform critical tasks.  The greatest benefit can be achieved through a building-block approach that exposes exercise participants to gradually increasing levels of complexity. The cycle does not always proceed from least complex to most complex, but the most important thing to remember is that exercises should build upon lessons learned from previous exercises.

Examples
A jurisdiction’s Multi-Year Training and Exercise schedule calls for an FSE to validate the capability of a jurisdiction to conduct mass dispensing operations upon receipt of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) materiel.
After development of a State SNS plan, a series of exercises is scheduled, beginning with a Senior Officials Exercise (SOE) in the form of a seminar delivered to the Governor’s Office, cabinet members, department heads, and local community leaders from designated dispensing sites.
A TTX is then conducted.
The TTX is followed by a period of refining plans based on discussions and the exercise AAR/IP.
Various agencies with specific functions then perform a series of drills, including: 
A dispensing drill conducted by the health department and supporting medical staff.
A security drill conducted by law enforcement agencies to practice maintaining perimeter security and checking credentials at a reception/storage facility. 
Finally, an FSE incorporates participants from all levels of government.
Activation of regional, State, and/or local Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
Delivery of SNS materiel to a reception site 
Receipt and storage by the appropriate State agency
Breakdown and transportation of SNS materiel to dispensing sites
Dispensing to victim actors, who are processed and tracked by local healthcare personnel 
At each step in this progression, lessons learned from the previous exercise are incorporated and/or shared with the next group of participants through an AAR/IP.

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan – Schedule

- Cycle, mix, and range of training and exercise activities
- Cycle of activity employs increasing degrees of complexity and ensures continuous improvement of capabilities
- Combination of training courses and exercise types that accomplish priorities

**Notes:**
The cycle, mix, and range of training and exercises ensures a jurisdiction increases its preparedness through different and progressively difficult training and exercise activities, and should be reflected in the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule.

It should reflect a cycle of activity that employs increasing degrees of complexity and ensures continuous improvement of capabilities.

The training and exercises scheduled should build in complexity so they provide a foundation for future participation in more complex training and exercises.  By building capabilities through increasingly complex training and exercises, planners ensure participants are fully prepared for the activity and as such, maximize participants learning.  In addition, training and exercises scheduled should take into account recommendations for future training and exercises made in IPs.

The combination of training and exercise types should accomplish priorities.  Employing a combination of training and exercises ensures that personnel not only practice in the field, but engage in planning, training, and discussion in order to more fully increase preparedness.  This combination of training courses and exercise types should support exercise objectives and goals. 

Questions
Which courses and exercise type does your jurisdiction currently conduct most?
At what level of complexity is your jurisdiction currently in the preparedness cycle?
How can you utilize the cycle, mix, and range of exercises concept to increase your jurisdiction’s preparedness?

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan – Schedule

## Sample Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan

**Notes:**
This is the beginning of the walkthrough of a sample 3-Year plan construction.

## Samplia’s Priorities

- Samplia’s priorities, pulled from last year’s improvement plans and Homeland Security Strategy, are:
- Priority 1 – Strengthen Public Information Capabilities
- Priority 2 – Expanded Regional Collaboration
- Priority 3 – Strengthen Port Security
- These priorities will help guide formation of Samplia’s training and exercise schedule

**Notes:**
Priorities are selected by pulling information from a jurisdiction’s capabilities assessment, and Improvement Plans from previous exercises. The priorities are then used to write the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan. 
Public Information: Facilitate public information for a coordinated, effective response and recovery effort with regard to an all hazards incident.
Regional Collaboration: Strengthen mutual-aid agreements (MAAs) to ensure effective response to incidents that overwhelm a single jurisdiction’s response capabilities.
Port Security: Enhance port security plans, with a focus on integrated, interagency port security operations

## Public Information Facilitate public information for a coordinated, effective response and recovery effort with regard to an all-hazards incident

**Notes:**
Stress to the participants that the Samplia example will focus on Priority 1 – Public Information.

## Public InformationAssociated Capabilities

- The following is a list of capabilities associated with the Public Information Priority:
-   Communications
-   Citizen Preparedness and Participation
-   Citizen Protection: Evacuation and/or Shelter-in-     	Place Protection
-   Emergency Public Information and Warning
-   Volunteer Management and Donations

**Notes:**
From the TCL, list the associated capabilities that would facilitate accomplishment of Samplia’s priority to: Facilitate public information for a coordinated, effective response and recovery effort with regard to an all hazards incident

## Public InformationTraining and Exercises

- The following is a list of training and exercises associated with the Public Information Priority:
-   Earthquake safety program for schools
-   Public Information Officer (PIO) training
-   Joint Information Center (JIC) workshop
-   Senior officials workshop on public information
-   Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) drill
-   TTX using earthquake or related scenarios (e.g., building collapse)
-   FE with focus on shelter-in-place procedures
-   FEs using earthquake or related scenarios (e.g., building collapse)
-   Donations management drill in conjunction with the American Red Cross

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

**Notes:**
Here, you can see how Regions 1 and 5, specifically, will follow up their PIO training with a JIC workshop, to allow for the greatest overall benefit.

## Key Steps Summary

- Identify priorities
- Identify associated capabilities relevant to priorities
- Schedule training and exercises that support identified priorities and capabilities

**Notes:**
Steps 1 and 2 were completed during the Improvement Planning Conference, but should be reviewed here.

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan Development 

## State Priorities

- Priority 1 –
- Priority 2 –
- Priority 3 –
- Etc.

**Notes:**
List all State/Urban Area Priorities (this can be done prior to T&EPW).

## [Insert title of Priority 1] [Insert description of Priority]

**Notes:**
Identify the first State/Urban Area Priority (this can be done prior to T&EPW).

## What capabilities are associated with Priority 1?

**Notes:**
From the TCL, list the associated capabilities that would facilitate accomplishment of the identified priority (this can be done prior to T&EPW).

## What training is needed to fulfill these capabilities?

## What exercises need to be conducted to practice/validate this training?

## [Insert State/Urban Area Priority 1] Currently Scheduled Training and Exercises 

**Notes:**
Identify currently scheduled training and exercises that support the identified priority and its associated capabilities (this should be done prior to T&EPW).

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

- _2007_
- _2008_
- _2009_

**Notes:**
Provide a link to each year’s calendar so that participants can fill in the training and exercises accordingly.

## [Insert title of Priority 2] [Insert description of Priority]

**Notes:**
Identify the first State/Urban Area Priority (this can be done prior to T&EPW).

## What capabilities are associated with Priority 2?

**Notes:**
From the TCL, list the associated capabilities that would facilitate accomplishment of the identified priority (this should be done prior to T&EPW).

## What training is needed to fulfill these capabilities?

## What exercises need to be conducted to practice/validate this training?

## [Insert State/Urban Area Priority 2] Currently Scheduled Training and Exercises 

**Notes:**
Identify currently scheduled training and exercises that support the identified priority and its associated capabilities (this should be done prior to T&EPW).

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

- _2007_
- _2008_
- _2009_

**Notes:**
Provide a link to each year’s calendar so that participants can fill in the training and exercises accordingly.

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

- The template can be modified to meet the requirements of the State/Urban Area
- If the schedule is being constructed from 2007 to 2010, then 2007 is considered “year one”
- Enter all participating jurisdictions (i.e., State, regional, district, local, agency, facility)
- The schedule is broken into quarters and months; if an exercise or training is “TBD,” enter the information in the appropriate year or quarter
- If the exercise type is not yet known, place an “X” in the appropriate location

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

- Each State/Urban Area is diverse
- The type of exercises plotted should be tailored to the participating jurisdictions and their respective capacity and experience
- The scenarios should be based on the risks and vulnerabilities of each area

**Notes:**
Note that jurisdictions should not be forced to move on if not ready.  For example, if a jurisdiction did poorly in a functional exercise and they want to focus on the same priority again, they should potentially look to do another functional, or a TTX, but not be forced into a FSE when they may not be ready only because that is the next building block.

## Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule

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- _[2007](file://Rstn-trs-fs1/DPP/CONTRACTS/DHS%20Office%20of%20Grants%20and%20Training%20(G&T)/T&EPW/Jan.%2020,%202006/Blank%20Schedule%203.doc)_
- _[2008](file://Rstn-trs-fs1/DPP/CONTRACTS/DHS%20Office%20of%20Grants%20and%20Training%20(G&T)/T&EPW/Jan.%2020,%202006/Blank%20Schedule%201.doc)_

**Notes:**
Review all three calendars to identify areas where training/exercise can be combined.

## Tools and Resources

## NEXS

- Facilitates cooperation and collaboration among Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies conducting exercises
- Tool used to track the scheduling of all exercises, regardless of the supporting Federal response agency
- Comprehensive calendar for all Federal, State, local, and tribal exercises

## HSEEP

- HSPD-8: establish a “national program and multi-year planning system to conduct homeland security preparedness-related exercises that reinforces identified training standards, provides for evaluation of readiness, and supports the National Preparedness Goal.”
- Help homeland security professionals assess capabilities built through planning, training, and equipment procurement, by providing them with the tools to plan, conduct, and evaluate exercises to improve overall preparedness
- HSEEP After-Action Reports/Improvement Plans (AAR/IPs) document and summarize performance as part of the comprehensive preparedness assessment described in the National Preparedness Goal

## Incorporating Planning Tools

- The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program supports the capabilities-based planning process through:
- Multi-year Plans
- Exercise Evaluation Guides
- After-Action Reports/Improvement Plans
- Training courses will be aligned with capabilities
- Training and Exercise programs should integrate and support capabilities-based planning, both through long-term strategic program management and through the design, development, conduct, and evaluation of exercises

## Upcoming Actions

## Upcoming Actions 

- Draft T&EPW minutes
- Develop a Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan within 15 working days of the T&EPW
- Review and implement Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan

## Questions and Conclusion

## Back-up Slides

## Orient participants to or provide overview of authorities, strategies, plans, policies, procedures, protocols, response resources, concepts, and ideas
A good starting point for developing or making changes to plans and procedures
Informal discussion led by a seminar leader
Not constrained by real-time portrayal of events
Effective with both small and large groups

- A good starting point for developing or making changes to plans and procedures
- Informal discussion led by a seminar leader
- Not constrained by real-time portrayal of events
- Effective with both small and large groups

- Seminar

**Notes:**
Use this slide if the audience is unfamiliar with or needs an overview of the function of a seminar.

## Focus on development of a product
Functional organization is common
Aided by:
Facilitators
Breakout sessions
Useful for:
Determining program or exercise objectives
Developing evaluation scenario and key event listings
Determining evaluation elements and standards of performance

- Functional organization is common
- Aided by:
- Facilitators
- Breakout sessions
- Useful for:
- Determining program or exercise objectives
- Developing evaluation scenario and key event listings
- Determining evaluation elements and standards of performance

- Workshop

**Notes:**
Use this slide if the audience is unfamiliar with or needs an overview of the function of a workshop.

## Focus on senior staff, elected officials, or other key personnel in an informal setting
Designed to stimulate discussion of issues
Used to assess plans, policies, and procedures
Attributes of a TTX may include:
Practicing group problemsolving
Conducting a specific case study
Examining personnel issues
Assessing interagency coordination
Achieving limited or specific objectives

- Designed to stimulate discussion of issues
- Used to assess plans, policies, and procedures
- Attributes of a TTX may include:
- Practicing group problemsolving
- Conducting a specific case study
- Examining personnel issues
- Assessing interagency coordination
- Achieving limited or specific objectives

- Tabletop Exercise (TTX)

**Notes:**
Use this slide if the audience is unfamiliar with or needs an overview of the function of a tabletop exercise.

## A simulation of operations, often involving two or more teams
Usually a competitive environment
 Set rules
 Controlled data
 Designed procedures
Depicts an actual or assumed real-life situation
Does not involve actual response
Sequence of events affected by the decisions made by the players

- Usually a competitive environment
-  Set rules
-  Controlled data
-  Designed procedures
- Depicts an actual or assumed real-life situation
- Does not involve actual response
- Sequence of events affected by the decisions made by the players

- Games

**Notes:**
Use this slide if the audience is unfamiliar with or needs an overview of the function of a game.

## A coordinated, supervised activity employed to test a single specific operation or function in a single agency
Provides training, tests policies, and practices skills
Typical attributes include:
A narrow focus, measured against established standards
Instant feedback
Realistic environment
Performance in isolation

- Provides training, tests policies, and practices skills
- Typical attributes include:
- A narrow focus, measured against established standards
- Instant feedback
- Realistic environment
- Performance in isolation

- Drills

**Notes:**
Use this slide if the audience is unfamiliar with or needs an overview of the function of a drill.

## Tests and evaluates individual capabilities, multiple functions, or interdependent groups of functions
Includes command post exercises
Events projected through an exercise scenario with event updates that drive activity at the management level
Attributes include:
Evaluating functions
Evaluating emergency operation centers (EOCs)
Examining inter-jurisdictional relationships

- Includes command post exercises
- Events projected through an exercise scenario with event updates that drive activity at the management level
- Attributes include:
- Evaluating functions
- Evaluating emergency operation centers (EOCs)
- Examining inter-jurisdictional relationships

- Functional Exercise (FE)

**Notes:**
Use this slide if the audience is unfamiliar with or needs an overview of the function of a functional exercise.

## Mobilizes and deploys prevention and response elements 
Tests major portions of operations plans under field conditions
Largest and most complex exercise type
Attributes may include:
Assessing organizational and individual performance
Demonstrating interagency cooperation
Testing communication systems
Activating personnel and equipment

- Tests major portions of operations plans under field conditions
- Largest and most complex exercise type
- Attributes may include:
- Assessing organizational and individual performance
- Demonstrating interagency cooperation
- Testing communication systems
- Activating personnel and equipment

- Full-Scale Exercise (FSE)

**Notes:**
Use this slide if the audience is unfamiliar with or needs an overview of the function of a full-scale exercise.