Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program

By Ridge, Tom

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Title:	Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program
Author:	Ridge, Tom
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


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Preface: In the two years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America, Federal, State, and local homeland security agencies have made major investments of time and resources to enhance their preparedness to prevent, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism. It is important to evaluate how well these investments achieve enhanced preparedness. The most effective way to evaluate preparedness prior to an actual incident is by conducting and evaluating threat- and performance-based exercises. Exercises provide a risk-free environment for jurisdictions to assess if they have the plans, policies, procedures, resources, and agreements in place to enable homeland security personnel to perform critical tasks required to prevent, respond to, or recover from a terrorist attack. The Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP), U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has defined a methodology and developed guidance for the evaluation of performance-based exercises, which are described in Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program, Volume II: Exercise Evaluation and Improvement. The first document in this series on the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program, Volume I: Overview: and Doctrine, was published in March 2003. Volume III: Exercise Development Manual and Volume IV: Sample Exercise Documents and Formats are under development.

Table of Contents
TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Background and Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Purpose and Scope of This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Chapter 1: Overview of the Evaluation Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Evaluation Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Task-Level Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Agency/Discipline/Function-Level Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Mission-Level Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Overview of the Evaluation and Improvement Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Evaluating the Cycle of Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Chapter 2: Evaluating Discussion-Based Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Planning and Organizing the Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Define Evaluation Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Prepare the Evaluation Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Develop Evaluation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Recruit, Assign, and Train Evaluators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Finalize Evaluation Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Observe the Exercise and Collect Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Analyze Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Draft the After Action Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Suggested After Action Report Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Chapter 3: Evaluating Operations-Based Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Plan and Organize the Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Define Evaluation Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Prepare the EVALPLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Develop Evaluation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Recruit, Assign, and Train Evaluators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Determining How Many Evaluators Are Needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Identifying and Recruiting Evaluators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Training Evaluators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Finalize Preexercise Evaluation Plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Observe the Exercise and Collect Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Observing the Exercise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24