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Table 2–2
Elements of capability—Continued
Elements of capability Description
Manning and personnel Paid and volunteer staff who meet relevant training, qualification, certification, and credentialing standards
necessary to perform assigned missions, functions, and tasks in accordance with relevant laws, regulations,
policy, and guidance.
Manning of command, unit, and tenant teams requires a minimum of two shifts unless specifically stated
with a goal of three shifts for every function depending upon local conditions and personnel availability.
Manning efforts must address issues regarding (1) changes to position descriptions (PD) (or scope of work
statements for contract employees); (2) pay and compensation issues for assignment, activation, mobilization,
overtime, and hazardous conditions (as applicable to assigned functions and tasks); (3) personal safety,
including the requirements necessary to employ protective equipment (if applicable to assigned functions
and tasks); and (4) impacts on leave, holiday, schools, and other temporary assignments/duties requiring
extended durations outside the local geographic area.
Paid and volunteer staff assigned to capabilities must be designated in writing in the applicable personnel
category (see chap 4).
Training, certification,
and credentialing
Equipment fielding and
sustainment
Training courses must provide the context of the supported operation, the necessary objectives for the
mission, functions, or tasks to be performed and the employment and user-provided maintenance of all assigned
equipment applicable to the mission, functions, or tasks to be performed by the user.
Training programs must address initial and sustainment training of all personnel assigned to the program
with training plans that address turnover and attrition rates.
Content and methods of delivery that comply with relevant training standards necessary to perform assigned
missions, functions, and tasks and must result in certification (when available) and support established
credentialing requirements.
Paid and volunteer staff assigned to capabilities must be credentialed for their assigned mission, functions,
and tasks as credentialing requirements are approved and disseminated by the Army.
Prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery equipment (to include training and exercise materials) must
(1) comply with existing standards (see chap 14), (2) be inventoried by resource type (see chap 9), (3) be
inventoried in the MAXIMO Inventory Management System as directed by DAMO–ODP and supporting inventory
management provider (see chap 14), (4) be employed based upon on-label directions (no off-label
use) and associated equipment-based training (or new equipment training) specifications, and (5) be maintained
and sustained per existing standards and specifications.
Exercise and evaluation Exercises, self-assessments, peer assessments, higher headquarters assessments, program reviews, external
reviews, compliance monitoring, and actual emergencies provide opportunities to demonstrate, evaluate,
and improve the combined capability and interoperability of the other elements in order to perform assigned
missions, functions, and tasks to established standards and measures of effectiveness necessary to
achieve successful outcomes.
All capabilities shall be exercised by functional area (functional exercise) and as a combined capability set
(full scale exercise) on an annual basis (see chap 15).
Exercise development, execution, and evaluation shall be employ the procedures, terms, and processes
described in the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) and result in an after action
report (AAR) and corrective action plan (CAP) (see chap 15).
Execution and implementation of the CAP recommendations to the greatest extent possible within available
resources (as determined by the installation commander) must be accomplished for the exercise process
to be considered valid for assessment purposes.
Maintenance Plans, organizations, personnel, training, equipment, and exercises must be maintained to remain applicable
to the needs of the installation commander.
Maintenance requirements include, but not limited to, (1) an annual plan review (see chap 6), (2) annual
organizational review (as part of the plan review), (3) staff position replacements due to staff requests, turnover,
and transfers, (4) sustainment and refresher training cycle plus ongoing initial training for new staff as
required, (5) renewal of certifications and credentials, (6) maintenance of equipment and facilities per specifications,
(7) removal of obsolete equipment and incorporation of new equipment as required, (8) Multiyear
training and exercise plan development on an annual basis, (9) exercise scenarios evolving in complexity
and integration as capabilities mature over time, and (10) incorporation of new and evolving requirements as
developed and promulgated from National, DOD, Joint, and Army offices upon approval by DAMO–ODP.
Sustainment All aspects of the EM program require sustainment through multiple resource streams and supporting
MDEPs.
Total cost of ownership must be identified and the appropriate financial resources requested from applicable
resource sponsors.
The Visibility Installation Protection Program (VIPP) MDEP is only responsible for resourcing specific installation
emergency manager positions, supporting specific elements of training and exercise programs as
approved by the program evaluation group II , and sustaining equipment and material procured through approved,
pre-identified DOD, Joint, and Army fielding programs (for example, JPM–IPP and AEFRP) within
the fiscal resource constraints enforced by the program evaluation group II.
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