National Exercise Program

What this funds

The Education, Training, and Exercises (ETE) PPA consists of several training and exercise programs that provide SLTT partners with knowledge to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from all hazards. These programs support the National Training and Education System (NTES). The NTES provides the roadmap and tools to identify requirements to better train and educate our Nation's first responders and homeland security officials across all levels of government. Requirements are derived from the National Preparedness Report, State Preparedness Reports, Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments, and other methods. This PPA includes the following Level II PPAs: Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP): CDP provides specialized all-hazards preparedness training to SLTT emergency responders on skills tied to national priorities, those related to Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). It is the nation's only live agent training facility for civilian responders and offers a unique environment that enables responders to train using toxic nerve agents and live biological agents while ensuring their Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS): CHDS develops and offers educational resources to the entire homeland security enterprise. Federal Assistance Education, Training, and Exercises - PPA Emergency Management Institute (EMI): EMI provides training and professional development to federal, SLTT, volunteer, public, and private sector officials to strengthen emergency management core competencies. Training is designed to increase the nation's capability to prepare for and mitigate hazards as it responds to and recovers from disasters. U.S. Fire Administration (USFA): USFA promotes fire awareness, safety and risk reduction across communities, including persons with disabilities and access and functional needs. USFA prepares the nation's first responders through ongoing training in evaluating and minimizing community risk, improving protection of critical infrastructure, enhancing health and safety of first responders; and preparing to respond to all-hazard emergencies. National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC): NDPC provides first responders with a comprehensive, all-hazards training program that natural disasters aimed to improve their capacity to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from all hazard events including acts of Continuing Training Grants (CTG): CTG provides funding via grants to partners to develop and deliver training to prepare communities to National Exercise Program (NEP): NEP designs, coordinates, conducts, and evaluates exercises that rigorously test the Nation's ability to perform workshops, tabletop exercises, games) or operations-based (drills, functional exercises, full-scale exercises). Exercises in the NEP contribute evaluation data to the National Preparedness System to provide a clearer picture of the nation's readiness.

Extracted from Federal Emergency Management Agency, p. 6. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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