National Domestic Preparedness
Consortium
Preparing the Nation through Training
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NDPC Mission Statement
To enhance the preparedness of territories, state, local, and
tribal emergency responders/first receivers and teams, including
non-governmental organizations and the private sector; to
reduce the Nation’s vulnerability to incidents involving weapons
of mass destruction, terrorism, and all-hazard high-consequence
events, by developing, delivering, and assessing plans, training,
technical assistance and exercises.
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Our History
§  Formed in response to the Murrah Federal Building bombing in
April 1995
§  Originally established by Congress in the Commerce-JusticeScience Appropriations Bill in September 1998
§  Membership based on the urgent need to address the
counterterrorism preparedness of our Nation’s emergency
responders, within the context of CBRNE
§  Expanded to address catastrophic all-hazard events
§  Re-authorized in H.R. 1, “Implementing recommendations for
the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007”
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What makes the NDPC Unique
§  Primary Training Partner and established training arm of DHS/
FEMA
§  Collective Core Competencies address all 31 NPG Core
Capabilities, 14 Emergency Response Disciplines, and the 15
National Scenarios
§  Courses meet and/or exceed DHS/FEMA Certified Curriculum
and Instructor Requirements
§  NDPC SAA Advisory Council, representing the 10 FEMA
Regions, that provides an additional source of customer
feedback and training focus guidance
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What makes the NDPC Unique
§  An established and mature training infrastructure (i.e., training
sites, products, people, processes and systems)
§  Solicit student feedback based on the Kirkpatrick’s Evaluation
Levels I through IV and a Diffusion of Innovation Level III
instrument
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What makes the NDPC Unique
§  Collaborative, synergistic relationships to include:
§  DHS/FEMA (to include NTED, CDP, EMI, IPD, NCSD, OBP
and S&T)
§  State Administrative Agencies (SAA)
§  Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) Regions
§  Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)
§  Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium (RDPC)
§  Ourselves and others
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Center for Domestic Preparedness
(CDP)
§  Prevention, deterrence and
response to CBRNE hazards
and healthcare/public health
mass casualty
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Center for Domestic Preparedness
§  On the Horizon
§  Decon Course
§  Integrated Capstone Events Expanded
§  NERRTC
§  EMI
§  Partnering with Center for Disease Control
§  Mass Antibiotics Distribution TtT Course
§  Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Course
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Center for Radiological/Nuclear
Training (CTOS)
§  Prevention and deterrence
and response to radiological/
nuclear attacks
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Center for Radiological/Nuclear
Training (CTOS)
§  New Program Director
§  Rhonda Hopkins
§  Bachelor of Science in Geology
§  Emergency Radiological Response Experience
§  New Courses
§  PER-307-W Introduction to IND Effects and Response
Strategies
§  MGT-243-W Key Leader: Incident Command,
Response to an IND Program – Initial Actions
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Energetic Materials Research and
Testing Center (EMRTC)
§  Explosive attacks
§  Incendiary attacks
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New Mexico Tech
Training
§  Real World situation
§  “A marksman - killed
six - with a single bullet
after hitting one man's
explosive vest, setting it
off and killing five
others…”
§  Marksman "was on a
[December 2013]
mission to intercept a
suicide bomber“
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New Mexico Tech
Testimonial
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§  January 22, 2014… deputies
were on a probation search
today in Palmdale and located
…… bomb making materials
they were taught about in the
courses they attended at NMT.
The deputies are adamant that
had they not attended this
training, they would not have
known what they were seeing
§  Sgt. Brian Jones, Palmdale
Sheriff’s Station
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National Center for Emergency Response
to Surface Transportation (NCERST)
§  Rail and surface
transportation safety
§  Integrity and security
research and testing
§  Security and emergency
response in surface
transportation
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National Disaster Preparedness
Training Center (NDPTC)
§  Natural disasters
§  Social Media
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National Emergency Response and
Rescue Training Center (NERRTC)
§  Incident management
§  Medical, Hazmat, & Public
works
§  Threat and risk assessment
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National Emergency Response and
Rescue Training Center (NERRTC)
§  Senior executive programs
§  Critical infrastructure
protection
§  Cybersecurity
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National Emergency Response and
Rescue Training Center (NERRTC)
§  On the Horizon
§  Campus Law Enforcement Incident Management
Course
§  Critical Infrastructure Physical and Cybersecurity
Courses
§  Expanding Offerings of Sports and Special Events IM,
Risk and Evacuation Training
§  Offerings of Web-based EM*ES in Delivery of Incident
Management Scenarios
§  Pediatric Disaster Preparedness and Planning Course
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National Center for Biomedical
Research and Training (NCBRT)
§  Biological Response
§  Law Enforcement Response
§  Agroterrorism Response
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National Center for Biomedical
Research and Training (NCBRT)
§  Updates
§  Total Immersive Virtual Reality Technology Integration
§  Readiness: Training Identification Preparedness
Planning – Florida 2014
§  On the horizon
§  Complex Coordinated Attack (CCA Course)
§  K-12 Emergencies Course
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NDPC Website Updates
§  NDPC “searchable” website
§  NDPC “searchable” website
§  Discipline
§  Core Capability
§  Course Level
§  Etc.
§  NDPC “all-member” centric brochure
§  District level participant numbers
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Just the Facts
§  Primary DHS/FEMA Training Partner
§  Over 913 Certified Subject Matter Experts/Instructors
§  173 DHS/FEMA Certified Courses (online & direct delivery)
§  Unique and relevant training sites, scenarios and simulation
capabilities
§  Collective core competencies address all NPG Core
Capabilities, all Emergency Response Disciplines, and all
National Scenarios
§  Customer and participant feedback systems
§  Over 2 million training instances since inception
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Questions
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