National Preparedness All Hazards Consortium Corey Gruber Assistant Deputy Administrator, National Preparedness

1. National Preparedness National Preparedness All Hazards ConsortiumCorey GruberAssistant Deputy Administrator, National Preparedness

2. Protection and National Preparedness (Proposed) • Aligns directorates with complementary preparedness missions and programs • Reflects FEMA’s preparedness mandate to enhance prevention and protection capabilities • Improves support for the regional preparedness mission

3. NPD Organizational Structure (Proposed) National Preparedness Directorate Office of Preparedness Coordination Executive Officer Business Operations Office of Counterterrorism & Security Preparedness Prep Task Force Technological Hazards Division National Preparedness Assessment Division National Exercise Division National Integration Center National Training & Education Directorate Individual and Community Preparedness Division • Aligns offices and programs to the ‘Preparedness Cycle’ • Streamlines policy and doctrine, assessment, and prevention/protection preparedness functions • Supports Administrator’s priorities

4. Major FY ‘10 Initiatives • Catastrophic event preparedness • FEMA Doctrine • Work Force Development • Preparedness policy formulation • Preparedness Task Force • Individual and family preparedness • Reporting requirement consolidation • National Response Framework revision and support for National Recovery Framework development • Integration of preparedness prevention/protection activities • National Training Program • Exercise transformation • Remedial actions/lessons learned

5. PNP Coordination with Regions • Support the Regions’ continuing success in broadening FEMA’s partnerships across missions, disciplines and with non-traditional stakeholders by RA and FPC outreach • E.g., as the DHS (and ultimately, the National) Joint Fusion Center PMO is established in support of 72 fusion centers • E.g., in conduct of the Nationwide Plan Review • Benefit of PNP/NPD reorganization for the Regions: • Consistent guidance and direction for PNP programs • Improved coordination between grants, preparedness, and continuity initiatives • Deputy Administrator with unified administration and oversight for protection, preparedness, grants, continuity and National Capital Region Coordination

6. FEMA Strategic Priority for 2010: Catastrophic Event Preparedness • Improve collaboration with partners for catastrophic event preparedness • Establish shared preparedness objectives across Federal, State, and Local levels • Integrate the public as a resource and part of the solution • Identify and plan against interdependencies associated with large, complex events • Implementation: • Champions: Tim Manning & Bill Carwile • Key Interdependencies: • Preparedness policy revisions (i.e., HSPD-8) • Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program • Operations Directorate Catastrophic Planning Initiatives • Planning guidance and technical assistance programs • Nationwide Plan Review • National Response and Recovery Frameworks

7. Nationwide Plan Review • At the request of Congress, FEMA will lead an update of the 2006 Nationwide Plan Review (NPR) that is due in April, 2010.  • Objectives: • Expanded analysis to look at planning and processes for all catastrophic threats • Document progress since the first Nationwide Plan Review • Build foundation for future analysis and assistance • Process: • Self-assessment and certification of plan status • Analysis of submitted plans to be led conducted jointly by HQ and the Regions • Feedback to jurisdictions as well as to federal guidance and assistance programs • Submission of a final report to Congress • Requested support from the Regions: • Serve as the primary POC • Assist in development of materials, the roll-out process, and lead analysis of submitted plans with HQs assistance • Support analytical report development

8. Preparedness Task Force • Congress directed the establishment of a Local, State, Tribal, and Federal Preparedness Task force to examine the national preparedness system and how emergency management doctrine, measurements and assessments, grants, federal requirements, and other elements of the preparedness cycle support that System. • Organization: • Representation from a cross section of missions, disciplines, types and levels of government, as well as non-government sectors • An informal working group is being formed now to begin discussions until a formal advisory body is established under FACA • Existing groups (e.g., Reporting Requirements Working Group, National and Regional Advisory Committees) will be leveraged • Requested support from the Regions: • Expert advice and counsel • Assistance in evaluative process • Host meetings; help facilitate comments from stakeholders and assist with outreach • Note: First meeting expected in March; letters being sent to national associations requesting membership recommendations

9. Requirements Reduction Working Group • Goal: • Establish an Agency-wide information gathering process and system fielded to State, territory, local, and tribal governments once each calendar year • The new process and system must collect defensible data that is accessible by all stakeholders, and that can be used for conducting assessments of the Nation’s preparedness capacity for all-hazards • Objectives: • Reduce data requests from FEMA on States • Leverage existing data collected from previous and ongoing data calls • Ensure preparedness data has a high level of utility for all stakeholders • Deliverable: • Data collection plan and methodology for FY 2010 • Near-, mid-, and long-term recommendations on program and data collection processes

10. Questions? Timothy Manning Timothy.manning@fema.gov Corey Gruber Corey.gruber@dhs.gov 202-646-3100