I am blogging ahead of my normal schedule to share important information. We all have been waiting for over two-years for FEMA to introduce the new HSEEP doctrine and new Core Capability Exercise Evaluation Guides (EEGs). Two weeks ago these documents along with new templates that can be used for exercise planning and conduct were released by FEMA.

Click here to see and download the small one volume doctrine that takes the place of all the 2007 volumes. Click here to see and download the new templates and Core Capability EEGs. You will see the templates and EEGs at the bottom of the website’s page. 

Please download and save to a folder everything above. You never know when the website or your internet connection may not be working. 

So, what does this all mean? FEMA Region IX suggests that any exercise already in the planning stages and using target capabilities should complete the process using target capabilities. If you haven’t began exercise planning for that next exercise, then I encourage you to use the new system 100%.

FEMA is Beta-Testing a new HSEEP course online this month. It is two-days long and no travel is necessary. If all goes well, expect FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) to begin advertizing and scheduling two-day online HSEEP courses by the end of June 2013. They are also updating the course for classroom training and should train me by the end of summer so that I can hold classroom courses if needed.

The FEMA HSEEP databases (NEXS and CAP systems) will be updated and made more user friendly by this fall. Please be patient as this system is being put into place one piece at a time. I will be at a few Training and Exercise Planning Workshops (TEPW) this year introducing audiences to the new system. The State TEPW is being planned for sometime in September. More news on that is forthcoming from NDEM soon.

For comments and or questions feel free to email me at: tcary@dps.state.nv.us

Best Regards,
Tim Cary