Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program¶
Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2020). Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program.
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Mechanisms¶
- Disaster Exercise
- The exercise's after-action report hands that finding to the region's improvement process — but the exercise's own job, surfacing the cross-authority break under authorization and safe stop-control, is done.
This sourcePlaces exercise findings in an After-Action Report/Improvement Plan and continuing corrective-action process.
- The exercise's after-action report hands that finding to the region's improvement process — but the exercise's own job, surfacing the cross-authority break under authorization and safe stop-control, is done.
- Disturbance Scenario Stress Test
- A Disturbance Scenario Stress Test defines that closure as the injected disturbance and runs the network forward, either in simulation or a tabletop drill.
This sourceUses tabletop or simulated exercises to advance a scenario through injected events and participant responses.
- A Disturbance Scenario Stress Test defines that closure as the injected disturbance and runs the network forward, either in simulation or a tabletop drill.
- Domino Tabletop Exercise
- It follows the established discipline of scenario-based response rehearsal.
This sourceDefines a tabletop exercise as facilitated, scenario-driven discussion for examining response plans, policies, procedures, and decisions.
- It follows the established discipline of scenario-based response rehearsal.
- Overshoot Tabletop Stress Test
- The discipline, drawn straight from the emergency-management tabletop exercise
This sourceTreats a tabletop as a low-stress discussion exercise and requires specific corrective actions to be assigned, tracked, and implemented through an improvement-planning process.
- The discipline, drawn straight from the emergency-management tabletop exercise
- Readiness Drill
- The discipline is realistic — ideally unannounced — conditions and an honest after-action review
This sourceUses an After-Action Report and Improvement Plan to turn exercise observations into documented strengths, deficiencies, and corrective actions.
- The discipline is realistic — ideally unannounced — conditions and an honest after-action review
- Resilience Tabletop Exercise
- Its strength is that it reaches a class of fragility nothing else does: the executability of a response
This sourceUses exercises to validate plans and policies, examine readiness and performance, and identify capability gaps.
- Its strength is that it reaches a class of fragility nothing else does: the executability of a response
- Scenario Drills
- The discipline that guards against it is to vary scenarios and inject genuine surprise — the logic of a well-run tabletop exercise
This sourceUses discussion-based exercises across a range of threats and follows them with evaluation and improvement planning to identify gaps.
- The discipline that guards against it is to vary scenarios and inject genuine surprise — the logic of a well-run tabletop exercise
- Scenario Injection Drill
- From a pre-built list of scripted events — a Master Scenario Events List — the exercise controllers drip cues into the team's actual tooling on a timeline: first a single odd authentication from a dormant service account, then, twenty minutes later, lateral movement toward a database host, then data staging.
This sourceDefines a Master Scenario Events List as a chronological list of scripted events and injects used by controllers to drive exercise play.
- From a pre-built list of scripted events — a Master Scenario Events List — the exercise controllers drip cues into the team's actual tooling on a timeline: first a single odd authentication from a dormant service account, then, twenty minutes later, lateral movement toward a database host, then data staging.
- Scenario Walkthrough with Rerun
- Its strength is rehearsing rare, high-stakes sequences a team cannot safely live through in advance, building a shared mental model and the "muscle memory" of the handoffs before the real event forces them.
This sourceDescribes exercises as low-risk settings to test plans, familiarize personnel with roles, strengthen interorganizational communication, and practice collective response capacity before real hazards.
- Its strength is rehearsing rare, high-stakes sequences a team cannot safely live through in advance, building a shared mental model and the "muscle memory" of the handoffs before the real event forces them.
- Service Restoration Runbook
- Frequent drills keep it executable but cost practice time.
This sourceTreats frequent drills as a way to keep a restoration runbook executable.
- Frequent drills keep it executable but cost practice time.
- Tabletop Breach Walkthrough
- Its strength is cheap, safe reach into the parts of a defense a technical test cannot touch: the coordination layer
This sourceExamines operational coordination and human hand-offs through discussion-based tabletop exercises.
- Its strength is cheap, safe reach into the parts of a defense a technical test cannot touch: the coordination layer
- Tabletop Cascade Exercise
- Run under a recognized framework, it produces a structured after-action report rather than a hallway conversation.
This sourceUses FEMA’s recognized exercise framework to produce a structured After-Action Report and Improvement Plan.
- Run under a recognized framework, it produces a structured after-action report rather than a hallway conversation.
- Temporal Scenario and Stress Test
- Its strength is buying failure cheaply: it surfaces the timing weaknesses that only appear under stress — saturated windows, unstable lagged control, racing overlaps — while they can still be fixed on paper rather than in the event, the rehearsal logic of a tabletop exercise.
This sourceDefines tabletop exercises as facilitated, scenario-based discussions used to examine plans, roles, and decisions before an actual event.
- Its strength is buying failure cheaply: it surfaces the timing weaknesses that only appear under stress — saturated windows, unstable lagged control, racing overlaps — while they can still be fixed on paper rather than in the event, the rehearsal logic of a tabletop exercise.
- Trusted Intermediary Compromise Tabletop
- Its failure mode is that talk is not doing
This sourceDistinguishes discussion-based tabletop exercises from operations-based exercises conducted in realistic, real-time environments, supporting the limitation that discussion is not operational execution.
- Its failure mode is that talk is not doing
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