It was presented to Congress during the legislative process to reauthorize the HMTA of 1974. The American Red Cross and many Colleges and Universities also have produced information resources for this purpose. Many business and government agencies have sophisticated analysis capabilities which include GIS and computer-based modeling. Once threat assessment has been made, requirements to neutralize or reduce threat effects must be identified. Requirements go away for two primary reasons.
Unidentified requirements are still requirements.
If undetected, unidentified requirements will create serious shortfalls to the strategic planning process and could adversely affect response and readiness capabilities. During the requirement identification process, special care needs to be taken not to limit requirement satisfaction to resources owned. In Emergency Management the size of the disaster can normally be expected to over-whelm the owned or controlled resources. The continuum below illustrates this point. All resources in a geographical location should be considered for satisfying requirements regardless of ownership.