Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Rebecca L. Siceloff
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- For Official Use Only
- July 7, 2009
An Introduction to Exercises
- Assess and validate policies, plans, procedures, training, equipment, assumptions, and interagency agreements
- Clarify roles and responsibilities
- Improve interagency coordination and communications
- Identify gaps
- Measure performance
- Identify opportunities for improvement
Key Concept:
Exercises should be planned in a cycle that increases in complexity. Each successive exercise should build on the scale and experience of the previous exercise.…
Tabletop Exercises
A tabletop exercise (TTX) involves senior staff, elected or appointed officials, or other key personnel in an informal group discussion centered on a hypothetical scenario.Goals
- Identify strengths and shortfalls
- Enhance understanding of new concepts
- Identify strengths and shortfalls
Conduct Characteristics
- Requires an experienced facilitator
- In-depth discussion
- Slow-paced problem solving
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Exercise coordination is done through the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule. This schedule lays out a long-term schedule of planned and potential training dates and exercises.
The Multi-Year Training and Exercise Schedule is used to:
- Avoid duplicating their efforts
- Combine exercises and ensure the exercises don’t conflict
- Combine training and ensure training does not conflict
- Optimize and combine funding where possible
- Prevent “over” training and exercising
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