National Incident Management System (NIMS)

FEMA. (2017). National Incident Management System (NIMS).

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2017

Link

https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/fema_nims_doctrine-2017.pdf

Cited from

military_strategic_studies, organizational_management

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Authority Handoff
  • The defining commitment is that the role is distinct from any occupant, and the transfer is performed by an explicit procedure whose components recur across substrates: a named role; an operational state — commitments, in-flight decisions, situational awareness — attached to the role; an explicit briefing of the incoming occupant; an acknowledgment of acceptance; a broadcast to dependents who rely on the role; and documentation of the moment of transfer.

    This sourceSpecifies the Incident Command System transfer-of-command protocol — briefing, acknowledgment, broadcast to responding units, posting in the incident log, and the rule against changing command during a critical evolution.

• Mission Command
  • Emergency response. The Incident Command System: strategic objectives flow down each operational period, tactical execution is delegated to the operations chief and below.

    This sourceDefines the Incident Command System: strategic objectives set per operational period in the Incident Action Plan, tactical execution delegated downward, standardized terminology and training for coherence.

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