# Presentation: 499848

## U.S. Department of JusticeOffice of Justice Programs

**Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support**

## Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support

- On April 30, 1998, the Attorney General delegated authority to the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to administer new state and local domestic preparedness programs for the Department of Justice (DOJ).
- OJP then established the Office for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support (OSLDPS).

## OSLDPS Legislative Authorization

- OSLDPS programs are authorized under the DOJ Appropriations Acts of 1998, 1999, and 2000.
- Currently, there is no formal authorizing legislation for OSLDPS programs.

- _Program           FY 1998_
**First Responder                 $12M    **
**      ****Equipment Program**
**Fire Fighter & EMT               $5M**
**	****Program **
**Equipment****	****         $0      **
** ****Communications****	****         $0**
**Training**
**Ft. McClellan                 $2M**
**Consortium****	****      $2M****	**
**Technical Assistance              $0**
**Situational Exercises              $0**
**Emerging Needs Training      $0**
**Distance Learning****	****         $0**
_**M & Administration                $0**_
**     ****TOTAL                                 $21M**

-   _FY 1999                FY 2000_
-         **$69.5M                                           $75M**
** **
**                 ****5M                                                $0**
**             ****$16M****	****	****	****         $0****	**
**	****          ****$4M                                               $0**
**	****        **
**	****          ****$8M                                          $13M**
**             ****$12M                                           $14M**
**	****          ****$3M****	****	****	****          $0**
**	****       ****$3.5M****	****	****	****          $0**
**                   ****$0                                            $8M**
**                   ****$0                                            $2M**
**    **_**            **__**$2M                                            $2M**_
-            $**123M                                        $114M**

## OSLDPS Mission

- To develop and implement a national program to **enhance the capacity of State and local agencies to respond to WMD terrorist incidents** through coordinated training, equipment acquisition, technical assistance, and support for state and local exercise planning.

## Enhancement of State and Local Agencies

##         Building Capacity

## Office of Justice ProgramsOffice for State and Local Domestic Preparedness Support

## Policy Initiatives

- Technical Assistance
- National and Regional Workshops/Conferences
- Innovative Ideas
- Developmental Issues

## OSLDPS Technical Assistance

- On-site
- All levels of government
- Tailored to meet specific needs
- Innovative

## Engaging the Field

**National and Regional Training Workshops/Conferences -****Focusing Policymakers on WMD Issues**
- National Stakeholders Conference (August 1998 and May 1999)
- State Terrorism Policy Summit (NGA/NEMA)
- Executive Session (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
- Regional Policy FY 2000 Conferences (NGA/NEMA)
- Executive Training for the National Sheriff’s Association

## Policy Initiatives

**Innovative Ideas**
- Inventory of terrorism preparedness training programs (NEMA)
- Terrorism preparedness Website (NEMA)

**Developmental Issues**
- Film productions (Seattle & GEMA)
- Governor’s Guide to Domestic Terrorism (NGA)

## Requirements

- Legislation
- Congressional Directives
- Stakeholders Meeting

## Building Capacities

- Equipment Acquisition
- Training
- Exercises

## Equipment Acquisition

- OJP provides funding to state and local agencies to enhance the nation’s first responder capabilities through equipment acquisitions to respond to incidents of domestic terrorism involving chemical and biological agents, as well as radiological and explosive devices.

## Equipment Acquisition

**Fiscal Year 1998 State and Local Domestic Preparedness Equipment Support Program**
- 41 jurisdictions, of the 120 eligible applicants, received grant funds to procure specialized equipment.

## Equipment Acquisition

**Fiscal Year 1998 Authorized Equipment Categories**
- Chem/Bio Personal Protection
- Chem/Bio Detection
- Chem/Bio Decontamination
- Communications

##                 Equipment Acquisition

## Equipment Acquisition

**Fiscal Year 1999 County and Municipal Agency Domestic Preparedness Equipment Support Program**
- Provides direct grants to 157 of the most populated cities and counties in the nation to procure basic defensive level equipment in the categories of personal protection, detection, and communications

## Equipment Acquisition

**Fiscal Year 1999 State Domestic Preparedness Equipment Program**
- Grant funds will be administered by a governor designated state agency based on the results of a Needs Assessment and Statewide Domestic Preparedness Strategy.

## Equipment Acquisition

**Fiscal Year 1999 State Domestic Preparedness Equipment Program**
**Block grants to states**
- Equipment funds
**Development of a Statewide Strategy**
- Planning funds
**Technical Assistance for Strategy development**
**Regional training**
- Needs Assessment instruments
- Threat and Risk Assessment
- Developed in partnership with NDPO, FBI, CDC, and FEMA

## Equipment Training Support -                 A Partnership with Pine Bluff Arsenal
Designed to insure that jurisdictions purchasing equipment under the OSLDPS equipment acquisition grant program receive proper training in the operation and maintenance of the equipment purchased
Components
Equipment Operations   	
Calibration
Maintenance
On-site visits
Classroom training
Distance learning

- Designed to insure that jurisdictions purchasing equipment under the OSLDPS equipment acquisition grant program receive proper training in the operation and maintenance of the equipment purchased
- Components
- Equipment Operations
- Calibration
- Maintenance
- On-site visits
- Classroom training
- Distance learning

**Equipment Acquisition**

## Equipment Acquisition

**Addressing Interoperable Communications**
- JPS Communications will provide a complete, self-contained, and transportable communications interoperability package to local emergency response agencies in twelve (12) selected jurisdictions.
- $4 million grant award
- In conjunction with NIJ for evaluation

## Training Program Strategy

**GOAL:** To fulfill OSLDPS mission of capability building at state and local levels

## OSLDPS Training Programs

- To provide the nation’s first response community with a comprehensive training curriculum in the areas of awareness, technician, operations, and terrorist incident command.
- Training based on the National Fire Protection Association standards

## OSLDPS Training Programs

**National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC)** incorporates the following organizations that have received funding under OJP’s domestic preparedness initiative to provide specialized WMD training:
- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT)
- Louisiana State University (LSU)
- Texas A&M (TAMU)
- Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site (NTS)
- OJP’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in Fort McClellan, Alabama (CDP)

## OSLDPS Training ProgramsCurrent NDPC Programs

**Level I. Awareness**
- 	-Basic Concepts for Fire and EMS
- 	-Basic Concepts for Law Enforcement
**Level II. Operations**
- 	-WMD Responder Operations (Live Agent)
- 	-EMS Operations and Planning for WMD
- 	-Tactical EMS Operations for WMD
- 	-WMD Responder Operations
**Level III. Technicians:**
- 	-WMD HAZMAT Technicians (Live Agent)
- 	-Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings
- 	-Radiation/Nuclear Agents Technician
- 	-Equipment Maintenance and Repair
**Level IV. Incident Command/Management**
- 	-WMD Incident Command (Live Agent)
- 	-WMD Incident Management
- 	-WMD Incident Operations
- 	-WMD Threat and Risk Assessment
- 	-Managing WMD Sheriff’s Program
- _	__                                  _

_**CDP  **__**NMT**__**  **__** NTS**__**   **__**LSU**__**   **__**TAMU**__**  **__** PBA**__**  **__**CRA**__   _
- 	                                                                                         Delivery                             		        Delivery
- Piloting
- 				     In Development
-     				     In Development
-   		             Piloting
- Piloting
- 	       Piloting
- 		             Piloting
- 	           	    		                       In Development
- Piloting								     Piloting
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**OSLDPS Training Programs****Current NDPC Programs**

## OSLDPS Training Programs

**NDPC Course Review and Certification Process**
- Consortium site conducts 1-4 pilots
- Consortium site notifies OSLDPS that the course is ready to be reviewed
- OSLDPS selects Subject Matter Experts to review the course
- Course review is conducted at the Consortium site
- Course review recommendations are implemented by Consortium site
- OSLDPS ensures recommendations have been implemented
- OSLDPS process is hands-on/we run it

## OSLDPS Training Programs

**Metropolitan Firefighter and Emergency Medical Services Program**
**Emergency Response to Terrorism Basic Awareness Course (CRA)**
- Begun in 1997
- Two-day course for firefighters and EMT’s
- Total trained to date: 44,022
- Total trained through direct delivery: 35,480
- Total trainers trained: 1,709
- Total trained through self-study: 6,833
- Responders currently in training: 56,253
- Responders scheduled to be trained: 1,125

## Training Videos and Support Materials
“Surviving the Secondary Device-the Rules Have Changed”
“Surviving Weapons of Mass Destruction” (Seattle)
“Weapons of Mass Destruction-the First Responder” (GEMA)
Distributed to organizations, departments, and training academies nationwide

- “Surviving the Secondary Device-the Rules Have Changed”
- “Surviving Weapons of Mass Destruction” (Seattle)
- “Weapons of Mass Destruction-the First Responder” (GEMA)
- Distributed to organizations, departments, and training academies nationwide

**OSLDPS Technical Assistance**

## FY 1999 Training Programs

## OSLDPS Training Programs

**Fiscal Year 2000 Distance Learning Training Programs - A Partnership with the National Guard**
- First responders will be trained through advanced distributive learning technology by the following:
**National Terrorism Preparedness Institute, St. Petersburg, FL**
- $2 million to train students in small and medium communities
**National Guard Bureau**
- $3.5 million to deliver training through the National Guard Distance Learning Network
**Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)**
- Early Responder Distance Learning Center - St. Joseph’s, Philadelphia, PA
- National Interagency Civil-Military Institute - San Luis Obispo, CA

## Assessments and Strategies

- National Needs Assessment
- Statewide Needs Assessment
- Statewide Three-year Strategy
- Data Collection

## Assessments and Strategies

- National Needs Assessment

- Phase I

- Phase II

## Engaging the Field

- State and local capacity building requires listening to and working with the state and local communities and the entire emergency response community to formulate and guide program activities
- OSLDPS works as a partner with those on the front lines of WMD response

## Engaging the Field 

**National Needs Assessment**
**Phase I **(completed September 1999)
- Overview of existing needs assessments
- Determines baseline of current knowledge
**Phase II **(completion date January 2000)
- Expand current knowledge
- Identify and define first responder requirements

## Assessments and Strategies

**Statewide Needs Assessment**
- Determine equipment, training, and exercise capabilities  and needs at the state and local level.
- Determine technical assistance and policy needs at the state and local level.

**Statewide  Three -year Strategy**
- Comprehensive plan for abating gaps in equipment,  training, and exercise needs.
- Comprehensive plan for building capacities at the state and local level.

## Assessments and Strategies

**Data Collection**
- Application requirements
- Monitoring of equipment grants

## Exercises

- Real life situational exercises are critical to building state and local capacity, and provide valuable training and learning experiences for emergency response personnel, public officials, and others involved in responding to WMD incidents.

## Exercises

**“****TOPOFF” (Top Officials) Exercise**
- Planned for Fiscal Year 2000
- Largest Federal, state, and local exercise of its kind
- Provide valuable lessons for the nation’s Federal, state, and local response communities
**State and Local Exercise Support**
- OSLDPS is committed to supporting state and local exercise efforts

## Evaluation/Validation

- Unit/Team Skills
- Equipment capabilities
- Training capabilities
- Individual skills
- Equipment capabilities
- Training capabilities

## National Exercise

**TOPOFF**
- FY 1999 Congressional Mandate
- No Notice Exercise
- Direct Participation of Top Federal Officials
- Federal Interagency Participation and Support
- Integration of Federal, state, and local response forces

## National Exercise

**Targeted Month**
- May 2000
**Selected Venues**
- Denver, Co		-Biological
- Portsmouth, NH	-Chemical
- PG County, MD	-Radiological
- Federal Response	-Cyber

## Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Comprehensive Plan
Incorporating Nunn-Lugar-Domenici into OSLDPS’s First Responder Training 
Congress Required:
A comprehensive plan for the “transition and integration of the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Preparedness Program into on-going Department of Justice Programs”

- Incorporating Nunn-Lugar-Domenici into OSLDPS’s First Responder Training
- Congress Required:
- A comprehensive plan for the “transition and integration of the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Preparedness Program into on-going Department of Justice Programs”

**OSLDPS Training Programs**

## Continuation of existing programs
Distance learning
State/local situational exercises
Training states/locals to conduct exercises
Expand interaction with senior state and local officials (NGA/NEMA/NSA)
Second State Terrorism Planning Conference (NGA/NEMA)
Governor’s Guide to Domestic Preparedness (NGA/NEMA)
Partnership with DOD at Pine Bluff and Dugway Proving Ground

- Distance learning
- State/local situational exercises
- Training states/locals to conduct exercises
- Expand interaction with senior state and local officials (NGA/NEMA/NSA)
- Second State Terrorism Planning Conference (NGA/NEMA)
- Governor’s Guide to Domestic Preparedness (NGA/NEMA)
- Partnership with DOD at Pine Bluff and Dugway Proving Ground

**Proposed Fiscal Year 2000 Initiatives**

## OSLDPS Contacts

- OSLDPS Telephone Number:
-     202-305-9887
- OSLDPS Website: www.ojp.usdoj.gov

**OSLDPS Contacts**