Joint Field Office Activation and Operations - Federal Emergency ...

UNCLASSIFIEDare established by ensuring constant communication between and among allconcerned parties. Regardless of the Coordination Group’s efforts to fostercoordination and cooperation, critical issues may arise that must be forwarded forresolution to the IAC.• Synchronizing the Coordination Period. Typically the on-scene IncidentCommand will have established operational periods before (or at least concurrentwith) the establishment of a JFO. In this case, because requests for resources in thenext operational period will flow up to the JFO following the on-scene IncidentCommand’s tactics meeting, the JFO should carefully consider delaying the start ofthe JFO Coordination Period such that these resource requests are briefed during theJFO Coordination Group Objectives Meeting. This will put the JFO slightly “out ofphase” with the on-scene Incident Command but might better support on-scenelogistical needs.Similarly, the information cycle outlined in this document should not, in itself, drivethe start and length of the JFO Coordination Period. Instead, the informationrequirements should be viewed as output products which can be tasked forproduction in the Coordination Plan (via ICS Form 204 or other tasking) to theappropriate JFO organizational element. Where national-level demands forcompleted wide-area strategy are required, however, the JFO Coordination Groupmust consider this in synchronizing the JFO Coordination Period.Finally, coordination and support missions tend to be more strategic than tactical,with “operationalizing” (putting into operational orders/Incident Action Plans, thentactical execution) and fruition occurring on a much longer timeframe than the onscenetactical operation. For this reason, the JFO Coordination Group may finditself synchronizing closely to the on-scene Incident Command operational periodearly in the incident response, and shifting as the incident progresses to longer(more strategic) Coordination Periods.2.2 Full Coordination and Support2.2.1 JFO Coordination Group Objectives MeetingThe JFO Coordination Group will identify/review and prioritize objectives for the nextcoordination period. Support and coordination objectives from the previous coordinationperiod are reviewed and any new objectives are identified.30Version 8.3Interim Approval April 28, 2006