The exercise concludes with an Incident Command Post Exercise which brings interagency teams together in their actual operations centers to deal with issues, including fog and friction, generated by the separation in time and space from an event. This event brings all regional responders to a training incident and evaluates the entire response. The exercise is a joint, city, state, and federal effort. Lessons learned will generate improvements in response. A read-ahead package provides selected materials appropriate to the training audience.
Civic leaders choose tasks they wish to exercise.
Through realistic execution the teams will test emergency response plans and coordination of responsibilities which will serve as the basis for formulating and testing alternatives to developing capabilities. Finally, an after action review process emphasizes lessons learned from and a take home packet provides direction for future interagency training events. Modeling and Simulations Many elaborate simulation models and simulation tools have been developed for Major Theater Warfare scenarios using current Active and Reserve Component data. These models can be adapted to scenarios which impact the civilian populace at large. Custom reports generated from these databases could instantaneously identify units within the geographic proximity of an event by zip code.