Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program¶
Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2020). Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program.
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6 citations across 6 artifacts.
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Mechanisms¶
- 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
- 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.
- 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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