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Home Front: WoT
Chertoff looks to NIFC for disaster response
2008-08-07
Local news article not too interesting in its own right, but an example of the quiet development of regional emergency response centers around the country. There's one is NJ that is being set up to deal with WMD, extreme weather, pandemics etc. in the wider NYC area. Purpose is to integrate federal, state & local capabilities on a flexible, as-needed basis. They're not ready for prime time yet but people are working on them FWIW
Posted by:lotp

#3  These regional centers raise some interesting command & control issues at the operational level (vs. tactical at the low end and strategic at the high end). Especially given that they essentially get active on a disaster by disaster basis and coordinate people across a lot of organizational and cultural divides.
Posted by: lotp   2008-08-07 14:08  

#2  Colorado has been somewhat ahead of the curve for a while now. I can recall about 15 years ago, a good friend of mine, was on a team with Mil / Fed / State / Local agencencies for disaster planning (he was one of regional healthcare side of team).

They were very serious even back then about terrorists and WMD attacks along with med emergencies like Hanta outbreaks.

It was very comprehensive and he was VERY impressed with the results. Showed me some of the response plans, and they were some of the most thourough I had seen to date (and even since).
Posted by: bombay   2008-08-07 12:33  

#1  they are forming up here in CO wiht the Guard providing a lot of the "special weapons" expertise. Lots of those Guard resources are also state and local LEOs, so its a very good cross-fertilization effort. Big item remains comms C3I for the state/local/regional stuff. That's where I might be working if things fill in right. CO due to terrain needs overhead assets, and I know how to integrate those from an end user and back end engineer standpoint. Trying to use some "Friends of..." pull to get an appointment.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-08-07 10:15  

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