Mr. Scott A. Weidie Multinational Planning Augmentation Team USPACOM J722 22 June 07

1. MPAT TEMPEST EXPRESS-13 PI TTX Concept and Overview Brief Mr. Scott A. Weidie Multinational Planning Augmentation Team USPACOM J722 22 June 07

2. Information Brief Overview (U) • (U) Purpose • (U) Background • (U) PI TTX Concept & Overview • (U) PI TTX Scenario & Construct • (U) PI TTX Participation • (U) JELC Review • (U) Recommendation / Way Ahead

3. Purpose (U) • (U) Provide information on planning conducted to date for the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team TEMPEST EXPRESS-13 Pandemic Influenza Table Top Exercise (MPAT TE-13 PI TTX) scheduled from 17 – 20 July 2007.

4. Background (U) • (U) Joint Staff PI Response Planning Order, 14 Nov 05 • “Combatant commands will exercise their plans annually …” • USPACOM Instruction 0507.1 (PI Preparation & Response Planning Guidance) and Concept of Operations initially exercised 15-16 Nov 05 (TTX). • (U) Aug 06 DoD Implementation Plan for PI Response • Tasks COCOMs to exercise PI Response Contingency Plans for Force Protection and support to International and USG/IA efforts.

5. Humanitarian Community Unified Action Military Civil Governmental How Do We Coordinate, Cooperate, Synchronize Efforts? Background (U)

6. Synchronization Coordination “Maximum Desired” Cooperation Deconfliction Basic Communication “Minimum Required” Background (U)

7. Status (U) • (U) Co-Hosts: • Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) Secretariat & Center Of Excellence (COE) • (U) Co-Sponsors: • U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) & U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) • (U) Dates: 17 – 20 July 2007 • (U) Venue: Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii • (U) Focus: “Wargame” of USPACOM PI Plan in a Table Top Exercise (TTX) to test strategic and operational level civil-military cooperation and coordination concepts, improve shared understanding, speed of response & unity of effort during a pandemic influenza, and meet event objectives. • (U) Participants: Key representatives from relevant pandemic influenza planning & response organizations from Joint (U.S. military), Interagency (U.S. civil agencies) & International Humanitarian Community (IHC).

8. Status (U) (U) Joint PACOM & CDC Objectives: • (U) Test strategic and operational level civil-military cooperation and coordination concepts in USPCOM PI Response Plan in order to improve shared understanding, speed of response & unity of effort during a pandemic influenza. • (U) Build interagency working relationships and institutional confidence in USG’s ability to deal with an influenza pandemic. • (U) Identify USG plans and actions in PI preparedness and response. • (U) Identify IHC plans and actions in PI preparedness and response. • (U) Identify requirements and opportunities to communicate, deconflict, cooperate, coordinate and possibly synchronize operations, activities and actions in a PI response.

9. Status (U) (U) PI TTX Scenario Overview • (U) Crafted to support achieving event objectives. • Enable comparison and contrast of USPACOM, USG IA, and International Humanitarian missions, plans and responses. • Developed to enable testing of USPACOM PI Response Plan • Foreign and Domestic “Campaigns” • Identify gaps, seams and duplicative efforts. • Identify civil-military cooperation and coordination requirements and information-sharing mechanisms. • (U) Facilitates Table Top Exercise construct with three moves addressing: • Emergence of Limited Human-to-Human Virus Transmission in Asia. • Spread of Human-to-Human Virus Transmission in Asia. • Outbreak of Influenza Pandemic in Asia and First Confirmed Cases in the US.

10. Status (U) • Key note: TTX shortened to 3 ½ days. • Travel Day: Monday 16 July • Start Tuesday, 17 July • Finish Friday, 20 July by approximately 1200 • Facilitates departures back to CONUS PM 20 July • TTX Agenda still a work in progress

11. Example “Game Turn”

12. Status (U) • (U) PI TTX Venue: Towers Conference Room, Nimitz-McArthur Pacific Command Center, HQ USPACOM, Camp H.M. Smith, HI. • Status: Reserved for PI TTX. • Capacity: 12 seats at head table; 96 other seats in auditorium. • Can be VTC’d to other HQ Spaces, as required. • (U) Layout: • Lead facilitator (operates from podium and able to walk around). • Main Participants (12 seats at front table). • Remaining 96 seats assigned to others as follows: • Support personnel (50; for main participants). • Observers (32). • Data Collection Team (7 personnel). • MPAT & COE Event Planners / Controllers (7 personnel). • (U) Access: UNCLASSIFIED but controlled by J7 Personnel.

13. Status (U) PI TTX Participation / Focus Area NSC HSC DOS OSD(P) DHHS DHS / RPFO Main Focus Area JPEC USPACOM UNSIC CDC JTF HD USFK CSF 503 Foreign Governments Components / DRUs Supporting Hawai’i Main Participants Role Players Observers

14. Status (U) (U) JELC Review • (U) Key Dates • Initial Planning Conference (IPC): 27 – 29 March 2007 • Critical Cancellation Date (CCD): 11 June 2007 • Final Planning Conference (FPC): 19 – 22 June 2007 • Table Top Exercise (TTX): 17 – 20 July 2007

15. Recommendation / Way Ahead (U) • (U) Support current exercise planning conducted to date • (U) Continue exercise planning support • (U) Successful event that tests our PI plan and facilitates plan improvement, building relationships with key organizations / actors, better preparation for a possible response in the future

16. Questions / Discussions