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AT Planning and Response Elements: These elements contribute to the installation's ability to deter and employ countermeasures in the preincident threat condition (THREATCON) measures implementation mode and to respond, mitigate, and recover from a terrorist incident in the postincident response mode.

This planning tool uses sixteen planning and response elements, which combine joint-service vulnerability-assessment elements and FEMA's ESFs as a baseline for planning.

Specific functions exist on all installations that support the installation's ability to either deter or respond to terrorist threats and incidents. The installation may use the sixteen elements provided or break down or rebox to whatever level of detail is deemed necessary by the local command or staff. The following, however, are the recommended (this ensures continuity and comprehensiveness in preparation for vulnerability assessments) AT planning and response elements that will ensure the installation has considered all its functional areas and activities during its planning for both preincident and postincident activities. Using FEMA's ESFs ensures that incoming support can easily transition into the appropriate areas of expertise on the installation if federal assistance is required.

Element Number 1—Intelligence Process: This element focuses on how the installation at all levels deals with the intelligence process (e.g., planning/direction, collection, processing, and dissemination). The lead for this is the installation's Intelligence Officer (G2/J2).

Element Number 2—Information and Planning: This element focuses on preparing the installation to respond to a terrorist attack. In the event of a terrorist incident, the installation must coordinate a large contingent of internal and external support organizations for an effective incident response capability. The subtasks are MOAs and memorandums of understanding (MOUs), C², EOC, and public information. The lead for this is the installation's chief of staff.

Element Number 3—Installation's AT Plan and Programs: This element focuses on the overall AT posture of the installation, including implementation of THREATCON measures, AT and emergency response plans, exercises, and personnel awareness and training. It also includes how the installation responds to threats with the appropriate use of THREATCONs. The lead for this is the installation's AT officer.

Element Number 4—Installation Perimeter Access: This element focuses on the installation's ability to secure the perimeter against and control the access of a terrorist threat to include—

• Entry procedures.
• A high-speed approach.
• An observable, existing guard force.
• Vehicle searches.
• Procedures for observing and reporting suspicious activity.
• Placement of barriers, lighting, and gates.

The lead for this is the installation's provost marshal (PM) and the security office.

Element Number 5—Security System Technology: This element focuses on the technology components of the installation's security system to include—

• Alarm systems.
• Data-transmission media.
• Interior/exterior sensors and detection systems.
• Access points.
• Closed-circuit television coverage.

The lead for this task is the installation's PM and the security office.

Element Number 6—Executive and Personnel Protection: This element focuses on protecting very important persons (VIPs) and high-visibility personnel on an installation (including home and office locations) and marking parking spaces, vehicles, and routes to and from work. The lead for this is the installation's PM and the security office.

Element Number 7—Mail Handling Systems: This element focuses on the installation's ability to secure, handle, and inspect incoming mail for possible terrorist threats. This includes procedures to report and investigate suspected items. The lead for this is the installation's administrative officer.

Element Number 8—Communication: This element focuses on an installation-wide system, which should be in place, for exchanging information about a terrorist threat or incident (e.g., dedicated alert system, giant voice). In the event of a terrorist incident, communications personnel must be able to respond to changing needs during the incident and be able to maintain (over a prolonged period) control of all incoming and outgoing communications, as well as, the communications channels included in the AT plan. The installation must have communications equipment that is compatible with the installation's response personnel and those external resources providing potential support. The lead for this is the senior communications officer.

Element Number 9—Incident Response and Recovery: This element focuses on the installation's ability to mitigate the effects and recover from a terrorist incident and resume normal operations (i.e., decontamination, mass care). This is a vulnerability assessment element and as a major category includes the remaining response elements Numbers 10 through 16. (However, to ensure inclusive and comprehensive planning, it is recommended that Numbers 10 through 16 be assessed as stand-alone elements.) The lead for this is the OSC or the senior fire official.

Element Number 10—Fire Fighting: This element focuses on the overall fire-protection system of an installation to include—

• Fire-department availability and capabilities.
• Building design and construction.
• Automatic fire-suppression systems.
• Alarm sensors and training.

In the event of an incident, fire-fighting response elements detect/suppress fires and WMD, effect rescue, render life-saving first aid, and provide water to the decontamination efforts. The lead for this could be the senior fire official.

Element Number 11—Hazardous Material: This element focuses on the expertise necessary to respond to a WMD incident on the installation. The first responders or Incident Response Team must be trained and equipped in HAZMAT response; they should be able to arrive immediately on the incident site, detect the presence of chemical/radioactive agent, assess the situation, advise the EOC, mitigate the situation (as resources dictate), and have reach-back capability for follow-on forces, as the situation dictates. A biological incident warrants a different type of response. The lead for this could be the senior fire official or the senior HAZMAT officer.

Element Number 12—Health and Medical Services: This element focuses on public health and medical care that the health and medical services provide following a terrorist incident, both at the incident site and in hospitals. The use of WMD weapons or systems will create large numbers of casualties in short periods, compromise both the quality and quantity of health care delivered by posing a serious contamination threat to medical personnel, constrain mobility and evacuation, and contaminate the logistical supply base. These factors have the potential of severally degrading health-care delivery and require detailed planning. The lead for this is the senior medical officer.

Element Number 13—Security: This element focuses on the military police, security, and response forces' performance to include their contribution to deterrence, detection, and delay and their response to terrorist activity, including activity with local police and response agencies. In the event of an incident, the security forces of an installation must provide physical security of the incident site and may conduct postincident investigations or must notify the proper investigative authorities. The site of a terrorist incident is a crime scene; the FBI (if CONUS) or the DOS (if OCONUS) must be notified. Witness testimony, physical evidence, and photographic evidence are important in pursuing leads on suspected terrorists. Security forces must maintain a continuous chain of custody on evidence obtained during an incident by documenting the location, control, and possession of the evidence from the time of custody until presenting the evidence to other authorities or in court. The lead for this is the installation's PM and the security office.

Element Number 14—Resource Support: This element focuses on the operational support necessary to obtain, maintain, store, move, and replenish material resources required to respond to the threat of a or an actual terrorist incident on the installation. This includes the ability to protect the means and the operators during the response support. The lead for this is the senior logistics officer.

Element Number 15—Mass Care: This element focuses on the coordination efforts necessary to provide sheltering, feeding, and emergency relief supplies following a terrorist incident. The provision of emergency shelter for disaster victims includes the use of preidentified shelter sites in existing structures, the creation of temporary facilities such as tent cities or the temporary construction of shelters, and the use of similar facilities outside the disaster-affected area if evacuation is necessary. There may be a need to provide food to victims and emergency workers. The lead for this is the senior logistics officer or the base engineer.

Element Number 16—Public Works: This element focuses on the efforts of public works to ensure that all facilities remain operational, damage is remedied or mitigated, and full recovery of affected elements is accomplished in a timely manner to allow for the recovery of the installation to normal operations after a WMD incident. The lead for this is the base engineer.

TASK ORGANIZATION: The installation must be prepared to implement the THREATCON measures in the form of preplanned, preincident action sets at increased THREATCONs. Most importantly, the installation must be prepared to respond if a WMD incident takes place. All installation personnel are responsible for developing a high state of readiness and responding to support this plan. Designate all organizations present for installation AT defense either here or, if voluminous, in an annex. Include the AT requirements of HN, US, and other civilian organizations quartered within the installation. The commander should consider each unit's ability to assist in the installation's AT plan.

NAME/LOCATION: Designate the installation's name, to include any short title or nicknames if they exist, and the exact location of the installation using universal transverse mercator/global-positioning system (UTM/GPS) coordinates.

MAPS OR CHARTS: Designate a reference to all maps and charts that apply to the installation's AT plan. Consider including an installation grid map, highlighting major infrastructures, utilities, and stockpiles. Use overlays to identify decontamination points; equipment storage and exchange points; field-expedient, decontamination equipment locations (such as fire-fighting equipment, pumps, and heavy machinery); evacuation routes; casualty collection points; and protection shelters. Additionally, due to the importance of environmental effects on WMD, consider including any relevant meteorological issues (e.g., prevailing winds). The installation commander and staff can use these maps during the AT planning and execution process.

TIME ZONE: Designate the time zone of the installation. Indicate the appropriate number of hours to calculate (plus/minus) Greenwich mean time (Z time).

REFERENCES: Designate either a compilation of DOD, joint, and service publications or the selected reference list the installation develops to include MOAs/MOUs pertinent to the AT plan.

1. SITUATION:

2. MISSION/PURPOSE:

Provide a clear, concise statement of the command's mission and the AT purpose or goal statement supporting the mission. The primary purpose of the installation's AT plan is to safeguard personnel, property, and resources during normal operations. It is also designed to deter a terrorist threat, enhance security and AT awareness, and assign AT responsibilities for all installation personnel. DODD 2000.12 states that it is "DOD policy to protect DOD personnel and their families, facilities, and other materiel resources from terrorist acts." In meeting this goal, the installation should meet the following four objectives:

4. LOGISTICS AND ADMINISTRATION:

Designate the logistics and administrative requirements to support the AT plan, which should include enough information to make clear the basic concept for planned logistics support. Ensure that the staff conducts logistical planning for both preincident and postincident activities The staff should address the following: locations of consolidated WMD defense equipment, expedient decontamination supplies, IPE exchange points, special contamination-control requirements, retrograde contamination monitoring sites, WMD equipment/supplies controlled supply rates and prestockage points, and procedures for chemical-defense equipment "push" packages. Specific logistics and administrative requirements will emerge throughout the planning process outlined in the CONOPS, specifically when developing the action sets. These requirements should be incorporated into this paragraph.

• Readiness and Concept of Combat Service Support: Designate service-support instructions and arrangements pertinent to the AT plan. If the arrangements are lengthy, include in an annex or separate administrative and logistics order. When planning for a postincident response, include ways to cope with decontamination of equipment; clothing exchange and showers; equipment recovery and evacuation; mortuary-affairs policy, standards, and procedures; contaminated remains; and emergency destruction of munitions.

• Material and Services: Designate supply, maintenance, transportation, construction, and allocation of labor that apply to AT efforts before a terrorist incident. Establish mission essential equipment requirements for a WMD defense. Determine the types and quantities of supplies and equipment needed to support the plan (decontamination, individual protection, collective protection, and communications). Determine the requirements of what to issue, to whom, and when and the training required when issued.

• Weapons and Ammunition: Designate the weapons and basic ammunition allowances required to support the AT augmented security forces.

• Medical Services: Designate plans, policies, and local/HN agreements for AT and WMD treatment, hospitalization, and evacuation of personnel, both military and civilian. Planners should include aerial medical-evacuation support, the nearest trauma center, the ability to set up a crisis center, response capabilities for NBC and radiological agents, contamination and decontamination assurance, and the ability to support a mobile medical hospital. Installation planner should ensure that all medical personnel are properly trained and maintain a high state of readiness.

• Personnel: Designate procedures for strength reporting and replacements and other procedures pertinent to base defense, including handling civilians. Enter specific procedures for processing casualties; include coordination with medical services for documentation and installation procedures for notification of next of kin.

• Civil Affairs: Designate the person, staff, or unit responsible for coordinating and interfacing with the local population to provide assistance for civilian needs in the event of casualties.

• Updates to the Installation's AT Plan: Designate the appropriate person, staff, or unit responsible for developing a process for updating the installation's AT plan (derived from this template) and for the distribution of those updates.

5. COMMAND AND SIGNAL:

Enter instructions for command and operation of communications-electronics equipment. Identify the primary and alternate locations of the CP and EOC. Enter the installation's chain of command. Highlight any deviation from that chain of command which must occur as a result of a WMD incident. The chain of command may change based on the deployment of a JTF or an NCA-directed mission. Identify the location of NBC staffs or any technical support elements that could be called upon in the event of a terrorist WMD incident and the means to contact each. The installation must provide for prompt dissemination of notifications and alarm signals and the timely and orderly transmission and receipt of messages between elements involved in and responding to the incident.