55A - FY 2009 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANT

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• Promote Continuous Improvement: Implement after action report recommendations. lessons learned, and oversight committee recommendations. Utilize the lessons learned from previous exercises. emergencies, disasters, and oversight reports to develop strategies to improve operational effectiveness. • Support and Train Personnel for the Deeds of Operational Demands: Provide core competency support and ensure staff is well trained, their professional gro~~rth is fostered, and have the support/tools they need to complete their work. • Enhance Communications Capabilities: Explore, develop, and enhance Internet~Intranet capabilities, and enhance the Operational Area Radio System to support core technology functions. • Integrate Critical Federal Initiatives: Promote National Incident Management System (NIMS) and National Response Frame~~~ork (NRF) compliance. Maximize federal resources through planning and coordination. y • Promote Technical Resources in Emergency Management: Integrate technical capabilities in all elements of emergency management. Promote coordination and collaboration with internal and external technical experts. • Expand Operational Readiness: Develop staffing plans for appropriate resources during operational events. Identify "core" business practices that must be maintained durin~~ an emergency deployment and the staffing levels necessary to meet these needs. Develop policies and procedures for shifting workloads for staff during deployment and upon return. Finalize implementation and rollout of the Operational Readiness "Team to facilitate efficient deployment of staff during emergencies and disasters including the credentialing of emergency responders to be utilized for Emergency Management Mutual Aid. • Enhance Information-sharing Capacity: Enhance capacity to share and disseminate information and programmatic guidance to all stakeholders. customers and emergency networks. 55A-13