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Center for Domestic Preparedness

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Mission

To operate a Federal training center specializing in providing advanced and hands-on training to America’s Federal, State, local, tribal and parish emergency responders, to prevent, deter, respond to and recover from terrorist acts, especially those involving weapons of mass destruction or hazardous materials.

To operate a Federal training center specializing in providing advanced and hands-on training to America’s Federal, State, local, tribal and parish emergency responders, to prevent, deter, respond to and recover from terrorist acts, especially those involving weapons of mass destruction or hazardous materials.

To operate a Federal training center specializing in providing advanced and hands-on training to America’s Federal, State, local, tribal, parish, and private emergency responders, to prevent, deter, respond to, and recover from terrorist acts, especially those involving weapons of mass destruction or hazardous materials.

To operate a Federal training center specializing in providing advanced and hands-on training to America’s Federal, State, local, tribal, parish, and private emergency responders, to prevent, deter, respond to, and recover from terrorist acts, especially those involving weapons of mass destruction or hazardous materials.

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Opportunity

Unique training and support facilities at McClellan

Facilities include “specially-designed buildings with sophisticated ventilatory and other decontamination equipment, sensitive chemical agent monitoring devices …”

Walter Reed ArmyInstitute of Research

Facilities include “specially-designed buildings with sophisticated ventilatory and other decontamination equipment, sensitive chemical agent monitoring devices …”

Walter Reed ArmyInstitute of Research

Facilities transfer in September 1999

created a $51 mil cost avoidance

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Toxic Environment Training

Practice and Validate Skills Operate SafelyBuild ConfidenceVerify Operational ProceduresEstablish Credibility

Practice and Validate Skills Operate SafelyBuild ConfidenceVerify Operational ProceduresEstablish Credibility

“If you have not trained in live [toxic] agent, you are not prepared for a WMD incident.”

Robert Burg Office of the Attending Physician

United States Congress

“If you have not trained in live [toxic] agent, you are not prepared for a WMD incident.”

Robert Burg Office of the Attending Physician

United States Congress

“…measures of confidence were clearly higher for subjects trained with toxic agent than for subjects without such training…”

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

“…measures of confidence were clearly higher for subjects trained with toxic agent than for subjects without such training…”

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

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CDP Training• Offer both Resident and Non-Resident Training Programs• Training Programs offer responders an opportunity to network with

instructors and students from across the country• Responders train using current equipment and tactics• Match students – right training• Advanced hands-on training• Scenario-based exercises• Many training offerings culminate

with toxic agent training

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Graduate DemographicsAverage age: 40Average experience: 15 years

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CBRNE Courses• AWR 103: Crimes Scene Management• AWR 160-1: Standardized Awareness Authorized Trainer Course• PER-201: HazMat Evidence Collection• PER-260: WMD Technical Emergency Response Training (TERT)• PER-261: WMD HazMat Technician (HT)• PER-262: WMD Hands-on-Training (HOT)• PER-263: Respiratory Protection Program• PER-264: WMD Law Enforcement Protective Measures• PER-265: WMD Law Enforcement Response Actions• PER-267: WMD Emergency Medical Service (EMS)• PER-268: WMD Complexities Incident Response (8 hour)• PER-270: WMD Agricultural Emergency Response Training (AgERT)• PER-271: WMD Complexities Incident Response Clinician• PER-272: WMD Emergency Respond HazMat Technician (ER-HazMat)• MGT-301: WMD Command and Response• MGT-360: WMD Incident Command

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Performance Defensive

• PER-201: (HazMat Evidence Collection)• 16 Hours• Objective: Train the proper techniques

for collecting/preserving evidence at a WMD crime scene

• Target: LE, FS, EMS and HazMat

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Performance Defensive• PER-260 (WMD Technical

Emergency Response Training)• 32 Hours• Objective: Provide advanced hands-

on training for CBRNE operations and response-4 training lanes and COBRATF

• Target: All Disciplines

• PER-262 (WMD Hands-On Training)• 16 Hours• Objective: Provide advanced hands-

on training for CBRNE operations and response-4 training lanes and COBRATF

• Target: All Disciplines

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Performance Offensive

• PER-261(WMD Hazardous Materials Technician)

• 24 Hours• Objective: Augment skills of HazMat

technician with CBRNE specific skills• Target: Certified HazMat technicians

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Performance Defensive

• PER-263 (WMD Respiratory Protection Program)

• 16 Hours• Objective: Provide core information

to organize, implement and sustain a respiratory protection program

Target: All Disciplines

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Performance Defensive

• PER-267 (WMD Emergency Medical Services)

• 24 Hours• Objective: Perform EMS functions in

CBRNE environment and scenario (Level B&C)

• Target: EMS and HC (non-EMS)

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Performance Defensive

• PER-268 (WMD Complexities Incident Response)

• 8 Hours• Objective: Train on WMD related

topics and hands-on training with equipment, instrumentation and procedures at a WMD event

• Target: All Disciplines

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Performance Defensive

• PER-270 (WMD Basic Agricultural Emergency Response Training)

• 32 Hours• Objective: Perform functions in

CBRNE environment (Level B&C) and scenario to include crime scene/evidence preservation, and decon activities

• Target: Agricultural (APHIS, USDA, Federal, State, Parish, Local, Tribal and Private vets) and traditional first responders

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Management and Planning

• MGT-301 (WMD Command and Response)/MGT-360 (WMD Incident Command)

• 8 Hours/24 Hours• Objective: Trains WMD materials,

pre-incident planning, response plan development, CBRNE incident response, CBRNE Incident Management and hands on training with simulation driven exercise

• Target: All Disciplines

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Northville

Northville CoursesPER-260 TERTPER-262 HOT

• Scenario and task based exercises• Performance oriented – individual & team • Stations include:

• Casualty Collection Point• Victim Extrication (cut-out)• Gross Decon• Technical Decon• Survey and Monitoring

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HazMat Trailer

• Provides a mobile environment to conduct on-site performance based training: HazMat, Law Enforcement Protective Measures/Law Enforcement Response Actions, and HazMat Evidence Collection.

• Provides a flexible environment for training: 1 or 2 rooms, smoke, ambient sounds, and controlled lighting.

• Record and Document Training

The HazMat Trailer “was a great tool to create a mock scene”…River Forrest Police Department

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Technologies forTraining

• Chemical Detection and Classification (Sampling/Surveying & Monitoring)

• Biological Detection and Classification (Sampling/Surveying & Monitoring)

Sampling a suspected Toxic Industrial Chemical

Incident Response Sample Collection Kit

Cultured Bacillus anthracis spores

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Chemical Sampling/Surveying & Monitoring

•Initial Entry—Multi-gas meters, Photo Ionization Detectors, pH paper

•The on-scene Incident Commander needs the best determination of the agent type: Encourage the use of at least three unique technologies

•Subsequent Entries/Advanced Equipment—M8/C8 paper, M256A1 Kit, colorimetric tubes, Ion Mobilization Spectrometry, Flame Photometry, Infrared Spectroscopy, Surface Acoustic Wave, Mass Spectrometry

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Biological Sampling/Surveying & Monitoring

• Protein Detection, Suspicious White Powders

• Lateral Flow Strips• Fluorescent Lateral Flow

Technology• Polymerase Chain Reaction

(PCR)

Rapid Analyte Measurement Platform (Fluorescent Lateral Flow)

Bio-Seeq (PCR)

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System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders (SAVER)

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SAVER Mission• System Assessment and Validation for Emergency Responders

• Provide impartial, relevantimpartial, relevant, operationally oriented assessments and validations of emergency responder equipment

• Responders provide observationsobservations/findings

• Provide information that enables decision makers and responders to better select, select, procureprocure, use, and maintain emergency responder equipment

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SAVER Technical Agents

• Texas A&M University

•• Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP)Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP)

• U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Charleston

• Nevada Test Site

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CDP SAVER History• Began Assessments in March 2004March 2004• Conduct operational assessments on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)

equipment under the National Planning Scenarios, using emergency emergency respondersresponders as evaluators

• Provide useful, functional information on equipment performance in WMD WMD conditionsconditions (i.e., responders wearing PPE, CDP training environments, etc.)

•• PublishablePublishable reports for SAVER and Responder Knowledge Base (RKB) websites, and hard-copy hand-outs

SAVER ~ http://saver.tamu.edu

RKB ~ http://www2.rkb.mipt.org

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Focus Group & Evaluator Selection for SAVER

Discipline

Evaluators (Depending on Assessment)

Background

Years of Experience

Discipline

ResponderExperience

Public Health

Law Enforcement

Public Works

Government Administrative

Public Safety Communications

ID Assessment Equipment

EMA

EMS

HazMat

Health Care

Fire Service

Focus Group Participants

CDP CoursesAwareness

Level

Performance Offensive

Performance Defensive

Management & Planning

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Assessment Categories

• Five SAVER categories

•• AffordabilityAffordability

•• CapabilityCapability

•• DeployabilityDeployability

•• MaintainabilityMaintainability

•• UsabilityUsability•• Synthesize respondersSynthesize responders’’ findings/observationsfindings/observations

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2004/20052004/2005

APD2000®

Class 3 PPE

Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus

Ion-Mobility Spectrometry

In-Suit Communications

Portable Weather Stations

Air-Purifying Respirators

Air-Purifying Escape Hoods

CDP SAVER Assessments

2006/20072006/2007

Multi-Sensor Meter Chemical Detectors

PID/ FID Chemical Detectors Technical Decontamination Support Systems

Loudspeakers/Mask Interface

Personal Decon Kits/ Packets

Bio Sampling Protocol/Kits

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