PLANNING SCENARIOS
Executive Summaries
Mission Areas:
The following Mission Areas were used to assist in scoping the response requirements generated by the scenarios.4 The full-text document contains detailed information for each Mission Area, and this executive summaries document highlights actions to be taken under each Mission Area.
| Prevention/Deterrence/Protection - | The ability to prevent, deter, or protect against terrorist actions |
| Emergency Assessment/Diagnosis - | The ability to detect an incident, determine its impact, classify the incident, conduct environmental monitoring, and make
government-to-government notifications |
| Emergency Management/Response - | The ability to direct, control, and coordinate a response;
provide emergency public information to the population at
risk and the population at large; and manage resources - this
outcome includes direction and control through the Incident
Command System (ICS), Emergency Operations Center
(EOC), and Joint Information Center (JIC) |
| Incident/Hazard Mitigation - | The ability to control, collect, and contain an incident at its
source and to mitigate the magnitude of its impact; this
outcome also includes all response tasks conducted at the
incident scene except those specifically associated with victim
care |
| Public Protection - | The ability to provide initial warnings to the population at
large and the population at risk, notifying people to shelter-inplace or evacuate; provide evacuee support (e.g., transportation for evacuees, reception center, sand shelters); protect schools and special populations; and manage traffic flow and access to the affected area |
| Victim Care - | The ability to treat victims at the scene, transport patients,
treat patients at a medical treatment facility, track patients,
handle and track human remains, and provide tracking and
security of patients' possessions and evidence |
| Investigation/Apprehension - | The ability to investigate the cause and source of the attack;
prevent secondary attacks; and identify, apprehend, and
prosecute those responsible |
| Recovery/Remediation - | The ability to restore essential services, restore businesses and commerce, cleanup the environment and render the affected
area safe, compensate victims, provide long-term mental
health and other services to victims and the public, and restore
a sense of well-being in the community |
4 Department of Homeland Security, Office for Domestic Preparedness: Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program, October 2003.
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