California Emergency Management Agency Training & Exercises

1. California Emergency Management AgencyTraining & Exercises Golden Guardian 2010 SWEPC Update Briefing Jim Ayre Asst. Secretary of Exercise and Training

2. Agenda • Golden Guardian 2010 Overview • Discussion & Questions

3. Golden Guardian • Golden Guardian 10 Summary • The sixth Full-Scale Exercise (FSE) in the Governor’s Golden Guardian Exercise Series since 2004 • 2010 theme is terrorist attack • Aligned with the National Exercise Program • Will take place over multiple days in May 2010 • Developed in a collaborative process in order to meet participants’ needs • Assess selected State Emergency Functions/Target Capabilities • Assess regional capabilities developed in a collaborative planning process within the framework of statewide exercise goals.

4. Approved Statewide Goals • Assess Federal, State, Regional, and Local information sharing capabilities through a Preventative Exercise • Evaluate State, Regional, and Local response to effects of terrorist attack in a neighboring State and to a terrorist attack in a major California Port • Exercise EMAC and direct communications with a neighboring state • Re-assess coordination of response in a port • Examine recovery aspects of local terrorist catastrophic incidents • Support regional response to a catastrophic terrorist incident in a neighboring state • Assess state-to-state SOC issue resolution, coordination, and resource support to a neighboring state.

5. Approved State Capabilitiesto be Assessed State Emergency Functions • Communications • Long-Term Recovery • Public Information • Management • Hazardous Materials • Evacuation Corresponding Target Capabilities • Communications • Economic & Community Recovery • Emergency Public Information & Warning • EOC Management • WMD/Hazardous Materials Response & Decontamination • Citizen Evacuation & Shelter in Place

6. General ConceptTerrorism Centric 3 day exercise in May 2010 Center of gravity: Prevent, Respond to & Recover from Terrorist incidents: Neighboring FEMA IX State In California ports Support other concurrent exercises through Regional Planning Teams Comprised of local & CalEMA exercise planners needed 6

7. Focus of Assessment • State Capabilities through SOC & participating state agencies • Selected Regional Capabilities through Coastal REOC • Selected through collaborative process with regional and local participants • Coordinated through a Regional Planning Team comprised of Local, Regional, and CalEMA Exercise Planners and Subject Matter Experts

8. Current Participants(as of August 26, 2009) • 13 Counties • 1 UASI • 10 Cities • 6 Ports • 21 State Agencies • 4 Federal Agencies

9. Golden Guardian 2010(Purposed Scope of Play) Coastal REOC and local EOCs open (Assess Selected Regional Capabilities from the TCL) Other exercises conducted concurrently throughout CA (Assess selected CA-EFs) SOC opens Conducts mutual aid with neighboring state • Executive Level TTX • Recovery from terrorist incident in a port

10. Proposed Planning Cycle CY 2009 – Timeline

11. Proposed Planning Cycle CY 2010 – Timeline

12. Points of Contact Steven Goff Director, Exercises Steven.Goff@calema.ca.gov Cell: 916.826.8117 Jim Woodward Golden Guardian Lead Planner James.Woodward@ohs.ca.gov Cell: 916.439.3546 Elaine Viray State Agencies Lead Planner Elaine.Viray@ohs.ca.gov Cell: 916.826.4722 Tom Tornell Coastal Region Lead Planner Thomas.Tornell@ohs.ca.gov Cell: 916.826.8090 Pam Perdue Southern Region Lead Planner Pamela.Perdue@ohs.ca.gov Cell: 916.261.4541 Sharon Avery Inland Region Lead Planner Sharon.Avery@ohs.ca.gov Cell: 916.437.9496