Exercise Design, Conduct, and Evaluation:
Review, test, or revise emergency plans through various types of exercises.
- Highly organized exercise design process
- Using Department of Homeland Security target capability evaluating guides
- Extensive backgrounds in emergency fields
- Strong relationships with local and state emergency responders
- All planning and execution in accordance with the Homeland Security and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
Hold a workshop to review plans with employees to identify how they would react in a given scenario, a functional exercise in which a particular scenario or portion of the plan is acted out, or a full-scale exercise in which the client and community partners would activate and carry out their full emergency plan.
Discussion Based:
Key stakeholders discussing capabilities and vulnerabilities when considering activation of plans and systems.
Planning meetings to establish baseline objectives
- Crisis-driven scenarios with discussion building from facilitated questions
- Reports are generated from captured discussion
- Key actions to fulfill any gaps or enhance processes
- Match capabilities to vulnerabilities
Functional
A controlled hands-on approach to a scenario of crisis or concern.
- Objectives developed for specific scenario and operation
- Simulated activities
- Responses are acted on in a notional format
- Real work resources are simulated
- Reports are generated from the observations of operational procedures
- A specific and formal evaluation process
- Full SIMCELL Operations Room to make an exercise more realistic with live injects, phone calls, social media injects, etc.
Full-Scale:
- Extend operational activities to the fullest level through real world simulation
- Scenarios developed with plausible situations
- Resources are deployed and utilized
- Tests philosophical and procedural expectations against reality
- Invaluable when evaluating plans for accuracy and usability