NIMS Integration Center 1

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National Incident Management System
NIMS Implementation and FY 2007 Compliance
Rick Jordan FEMA R7 NIMS Coordinator January 31,
2007 Nebraska Exercise Training
Conference North Platte, NE
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NIMS Implementation Key Concepts

• NIMS implementation is more than adoption of ICS
  by State, local community, agency, or hospital
• NIMS implementation is more than having personnel
  complete a one-hour online training session on
  NIMS
• NIMS implementation establishes a comprehensive
  system improving how the nation responds to
  emergency incidents

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NIMS Implementation Key Concepts

• How do we integrate NIMS?
• Develop standardized organizational systems,
  using common terminology during a disaster
• Link communication systems
• Train and Exercise together
• Establish common resource base for incident
  response

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NIMS Compliance Background

• All State, local and tribal jurisdictions
  receiving Federal Preparedness Assistance are
  required to comply with the NIMS
• Grants, cooperative agreements, and direct
  contracts
• FYs 2005-2006
• Self-certification for NIMS compliance
• Initial measures have been reached and good
  faith efforts are underway to comply
• FY 2006 Implementation Matrices for
  State/Territorial, tribal/local
• Actions required for compliance
• Guidance and technical assistance resources
• Future activities

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NIMS Compliance Summary

• FYs 2005-2006 34 on-going NIMS implementation
  activities prescribed by the NIMS Integration
  Center
• FY 2007 Seven new activities for States and
  territories Six new activities for tribal
  entities and local jurisdictions
• All jurisdictions should remember that
  implementation activities from previous fiscal
  years remain on-going commitments
• All jurisdictions must continue to support all
  implementation activities to achieve NIMS
  compliance

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FY 2007 NIMS Compliance Transition

• Transition in FY 2007 towards performance-based
  metrics
• Metrics based on compliance requirement
  statements (matrix)
• FY 2007 NIMS Compliance
• Letter to Governors identifies implementation
  requirements and compliance metrics in October
  2006
• Compliance Metrics incorporated into NIMSCAST
• DHS Office of Grants Training conducts NIMS
  monitoring
• Technical Assistance from all FEMA Regions

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NIMS Compliance Metrics Goals

• Gather information on current state of NIMS
  compliance
• Measures performance of NIMS implementation
  activities
• Helps determine appropriate compliance targets
• Compile best practices and identify compliance
  shortfalls
• Provide continued guidance and feedback for
  increased NIMS compliance
• Assist refinement of metrics and NIMSCAST

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NIMS Compliance Metrics Tiers

• Tier 1 Metrics
• Required for FY 2007 NIMS Compliance  
• Jurisdictions must record affirmative answers
• Mechanism to measure performance
• Establish targets for FY 2008
• FY 2008 DHS GT validates responses for Tier 1
  metrics
• Tier 2 Metrics
• These questions monitor ongoing (FYs 2006-2007)
  NIMS implementation activities,
• Jurisdictions are not required to record an
  affirmative answer to achieve FY 2007 Compliance
  
• Answers to these questions must be submitted
• Inform the NIC on successes, gaps, and shortfalls
• Establish targets for FY 2008 (potentially)

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NIMS Compliance Summary

• Future refinement of the NIMS will evolve as
  policy and technical issues are further developed
  and clarified.
• Additional requirements may be issued by the NIMS
  Integration Center as to what will constitute
  NIMS compliance in FY 2008 and beyond.
• With completion of FY 2007 activities, State,
  territorial, tribal, and local jurisdictions will
  have the foundational support for future NIMS
  implementation and compliance.
• The effective and consistent implementation of
  the NIMS nationwide will result in a strengthened
  national capability to prevent, prepare for,
  respond to and recover from any type of incident.

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NIMCAST NIMSCAST

• NIMCAST National Incident Management System
  Capability Assessment Support Tool
• NIMCAST Launched January 2005
• Assess compliance against the NIMS document
• State, territory, tribal, local, and/or
  discipline
• Created overall report
• NIMSCAST NIMS Compliance Assistance Support
  Tool
• NIMSCAST Released in FY 2007 3rd Quarter

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NIMSCAST Navigation Upgrades

• Original NIMCAST module will remain (FY05/06
  NIMSCAST Assessment)
• FY07 State/Territory and Tribal/Local Metrics
• Account reporting
• Search features name, email address, account
  name
• Accounts identified by discipline

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Additional Upgrades

• Request a New Password
• Change email address within NIMSCAST
• Structure Public Accounts by State/Territory
• Delete empty Public Accounts
• More reporting features
• Users will receive email when added or deleted
  from an account
• Detailed user guide and website instructions

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Monitoring

• GT may review before a monitoring visit
• Other grant making agencies could request report
  for monitoring
• Assist in compliance verification

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• NIMS Training

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Training Who needs to take what?

• IS-700 NIMS An Introduction
• All personnel with a direct role in emergency
  preparedness, incident management, or response
• IS-800a NRP An Introduction
• All Federal, state, territorial, tribal, and
  local emergency managers or personnel whose
  primary responsibility is emergency management
• ICS-100 Introduction to ICS
• All Federal, State, territorial, tribal, local,
  private sector and non-governmental personnel at
  the entry level, first line supervisor level,
  middle management level, and command and general
  staff level of emergency management operations
• ICS-200 Basic ICS
• All Federal, State, territorial, tribal, local,
  private sector and non-governmental personnel at
  the first line supervisor level, middle
  management level, and command and general staff
  level of emergency management operations

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New FY 2007 and Out Year Training

• ICS-300 Intermediate (Required in FY07)
• All Federal, State, territorial, tribal, local,
  private sector and non-governmental personnel at
  the middle management level, and command and
  general staff level of emergency management
  operations
• ICS-400 Advanced (Required in FY07)
• All Federal, State, territorial, tribal, local,
  private sector and non-governmental personnel at
  the command and general staff level of emergency
  management operations
• Additional NIMS Training (Recommended)
• Training available for all audiences in the
  following areas NIMS Multi-agency Coordination
  Systems, Public Information Systems,
  Communications and Information Management,
  Resource Management, Resource Typing, Mutual Aid,
  and NIMS Preparedness
• ICS-Position Specific Training for FY08
• Training required for ICS Command and General
  Staff positions Incident Commander, Safety
  Office, Liaison Officer, Public Information
  Officer, Operations Section Chief, Planning
  Section Chief, Logistics Section Chief, and
  Finance/Admin Section Chief

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NIMS Training

• One of the most important and essential elements
  of NIMS compliance
• Required as a condition for receiving federal
  preparedness funds
• NIMS base-line training must become an integral
  element of any jurisdiction / agency respective
  training programs
• Successful implementation is dependent upon
  participation and integration of all response
  disciplines within this training

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Incident Command System (ICS) Training

Emergency management / response personnel,
trained in ICS, do not require retraining
if Previous training is consistent with current
DHS standards (to include ICS courses managed,
administered, or delivered by the Emergency
Management Institute, the National Fire Academy,
FIRESCOPE, the National Wildfire Coordinating
Group, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the
Environment Protection Agency, and the U.S. Coast
Guard.)
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Performance Measuring

• The NIC is moving towards performance
  measurements in our training requirements as well
  as other NIMS requirements  
• FY07 State and local NIMS implementation
  activities will be based on metrics vice
  self-certification
• Presently pilot testing 9 ICS Command and General
  staff position specific training courses that
  will be based on performance based all-hazard
  core competencies

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Current Activities

• ICS Position-specific Training for Command and
  General Staff Positions
• Pilot testing was done at NETC last fall (9
  Command and General Staff positions)
• A second round of pilot testing will be done
  during the second quarter of FY 2007.
• After the second round of pilots are completed, a
  release will be made to utilize all training
  delivery systems
• All-Hazard Core competencies for each ICS
  position have been developed and are posted
  online for viewing.
• Competencies were developed and involved many
  training partners at the state and federal level
  to including EMI, USFA, USCG, EPA, and NWCG.

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Upcoming EventsNIMS-NIC TRAINING PLAN

• The NIC has started to processes necessary to
  developing a 5-year NIMS training Plan to assist
  all training partners.
• Contract with the Homeland Security Institute has
  been established.
• This will involve an initial 3 month effort with
  a completion date of June 2007
• A Training Focus group will be established to
  assist in this effort.
• The NIC will also solicit input from both the
  FEMA Regional, Federal and State training
  partners.

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• NIMS Resource Typing and Credentialing

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Resource Typing

• Provides Capability Scale for Resources
• Obvious attributes easy to inspect (count or
  measure)
• Attributes unlikely to change
• Basis for matching capabilities of resources to
  be used together
• Tier 1 - Resources that require National
  Definition for Inter-State Mutual Aid
• Tier 2 - Resources that are specialized and used
  for localized response

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Credentialing

• Addresses both Identification and Attributes
• Identity vetting specified by Real ID Act or
  HSPD-12
• Attributes are not obvious
• Attributes can be transitory
• Tier 1 - Persons that must be pre-credentialed
  for Inter-State Mutual Aid
• Tier 2 - Persons that can be credentialed after
  arrival

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When to Resource Type or Credential

• RESOURCE TYPE
• External attributes that are obvious
• Measurable
• Countable
• Things
• Unlikely to change
• Could have data plate
• Quantitative - Descriptive Definition
• Equipment and Teams

• CREDENTIAL
• Internal attributes that are not obvious
• Skills
• Knowledge
• Ability
• Can to be transitory
• Vetted Identity
• Badge to combine Identity and Attributes
• Persons

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Resource Management Projects

• Resource Typing
• Maintenance of current 120 Resources
• NIMS-IRIS Tool
• Phase 2
• Policy on National Typing
• Resources to be added to National Catalogue

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National Response Plan and National Incident
Management System Review and Revision Process

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Background

• NIMS issued March 2004 NRP issued December 2004
• Notice of Change released on May 25, 2006
  included 11 topics
• Secretary of DHS is responsible for conducting an
  interagency review of the document
• DHS FEMA is the Executive Agent for the NRP
• FEMA partnering with DHS Preparedness Directorate
  (PREP) to co-chair a NRP/NIMS Task Force
• Participation from all levels of stakeholders
  (Federal, State, local, tribal, private sector,
  and NGOs)
• DRG PCC approved NRP/NIMS Work Plan in September

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NRP/NIMS Review Process Coordination Structure
Sec DHS

• HSC/DRG
• Strategic oversight
• Department/agency policy positions
• Interagency policy deconfliction

• Steering Committee
• Co-Chairs FEMA DHS Preparedness
• Members Select ESF Coordinators and stakeholders

• NRP/NIMS Interagency Task Force
• Coordinates department/agency input
• Explore, validate issues, propose solutions,
  draft
• policy positions
• Resolve non-policy issues prior to raising them
  to the DRG
• Members All NRP Signatories, other stakeholders

• Writing Team
• Assign and track writing tasks to work groups
• Vet initial rewrites with affected groups
• Members Selected by Steering Committee and Task
  Force

Examples of possible work groups
NIMS Work Group
Roles Responsibilities Work Group
International SupportWork Group
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NRP Key Issues
RED - New Issue
Annex issues are not prioritized. They will be
worked concurrently with Base Plan Issues and
with each other
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NIMS Key Issues

• Guidance required to clarify roles and
  responsibilities within NIMS framework
• Better include concept of preparedness into NIMS
• Refine NIMS to ensure it can be easily understood
  by all stakeholders
• Better tie between NIMS and Homeland Security
  Presidential Directive-8 National Preparedness,
  NRP, and other Federal response efforts
• Emphasize importance of NIMS training for all
  emergency management, response personnel and
  disaster workers, private sector and
  nongovernmental agencies

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NRP/NIMS Work Groups

• Work Groups are responsible for vetting issues
  and providing resolutions/recommendations to the
  Writing Team for their functional area or issues
  which they have been assigned
• Work Group leads report back to the Writing Team
  a Writing Team member or Steering Committee staff
  member will be present at all Work Group meetings
• Membership is open to Federal, State, local,
  tribal, private sector representatives and
  nongovernmental organizations
• Subject matter experts will be invited to attend
  Work Group meetings on an as needed basis
• Depending on the size of the Work Groups,
  sub-groups may be established

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Work Groups

• Volunteer and Donations Management
• Evacuations and Sheltering
• International Support
• Training and Implementation
• Companion Animal Issue
• Special Needs Work Group

• Roles and Responsibilities
• Incident Management and Coordination
• Functions
• Catastrophic Planning
• Communications
• NIMS

• These work groups will meet early in the
  process to help establish policies for these
  specific issues which will be integrated into
  other work groups.

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Proposed NRP/NIMS Review Timeline
Jun 2007
Dec 2006
Phase 2 Targeted Rewrite and Product Completion
NIMS Work Group Meets/Develop 1st Draft of NIMS
Dec Jan 26
Dec Feb 16
NRP Work Groups Meet/Provide inputs to Writing
Team
1st Comment Period on NIMS
Feb 1 - 19
Writing Team Develops 1st Draft of NRP
Feb 19 Mar 9
Feb 19 Mar 26
Adjudicate comments on 1st draft of /Prepare 2nd
draft of NIMS
1st Comment Period on NRP
Mar 12 30
Mar 26 Apr 6
2nd Comment Period on NIMS
Apr 2 20
Adjudicate comments on 1st draft of NRP/Prepare
2nd draft of NRP
Adjudicate NIMS comments/prepare final draft of
NIMS for approval
Apr 9 27
Apr 23 May 4
2nd Comment Period on NRP
Adjudicate NRP comments/ prepare final draft of
NRP for approval
May 7 - 23
NIMS Work Plan
Approval Process for NIMS
May 1 - 31
NRP Work Plan
May 23 31
Expedited Approval Process for NRP
Jun 1
NRP and NIMS Announcement and Electronic Release
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NRP-NIMS Revision Process Input
R7-NRP-Review_at_dhs.govnrp.nims_at_dhs.govwww.dhs.gov
/nrp
The NIMS Integration Center
NIMS-Integration-Center_at_dhs/gov
www.fema.gov/emergency/nims
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