State of Florida - Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council

THE STATE OF FLORIDA
2013-2015 TRAINING AND EXERCISE PLAN (TEP)
CHAPTER 2: PROGRAM PRIORITIES
The State of Florida continues to strive for 100% compliance with Presidential, DHS/FEMA, and
any other federal policies and procedures. The “Core Capabilities” reflected in the FEMA
publication “National Preparedness Goals” dated September 2011 provides the State its initial focus.
Below is an extract from that document addressing the “Core Capabilities by Mission Area.”
National Directives and Program Priorities
Presidential Policy directive (PPD)-8 introduces some new initiatives that will change the way our
nation addresses emergency/disaster preparedness and to some degree response. As a result of
PPD-8 FEMA has incorporated strategic plans and concepts that while not bringing about any
drastic changes to our national priorities, will significantly alter our methods of achieving these
priorities through the “Whole Nation/Community – All Hazards” approach. Again, the National
Priorities will virtually remain unchanged as follows: 1) Strengthening planning and Citizen
preparedness Capabilities; 2) Implementing the National Incident Management System (NIMS) via
the National Response Framework (NRF); 3)Implementing the National Infrastructure Protection
Plan (NIPP); 4) Strengthening our National information sharing and collaboration capabilities; 5)
Strengthening Interoperable and Operable Communications capabilities; 6) Strengthening CBRNE
detection; 7) Strengthening Medical Surge and Mass Prophylaxis capabilities; and 8) Expanding
Regional Collaboration.
Core Capabilities
Overview
Core capabilities are essential for the execution of each of the five mission areas: Prevention,
Protection, Mitigation, Response, and Recovery (see Table 1). To assess both our capacity and our
gaps, each core capability includes capability targets for which measures will be developed. The core
capabilities and capability targets are not exclusive to any single level of government or organization,
but rather require the combined efforts of the whole community.
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