National Exercise Program (NEP) Support

The NEP has four principal objectives:
1) To provide national (as defined by the National Strategy for Homeland Security) leaders and their staffs with the opportunity to periodically train and exercise together, identify key policy issues, and refine key incident management processes/procedures relating to prevention, response, and recovery mission areas against the range of probable threats;
2) To enhance existing and develop new exercise and evaluation common doctrine and methodology, such as the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program, and provide annual Program planning guidance for the benefit of all levels of government and the private sector;
3) To establish collaborative management processes, supporting systems, and multi-year scheduling to meet short and long term goals, monitor all budget activities and performance expectations as required by the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), as well as influence program and system requirements and to provide accurate predictability in spending and program requirement forecasting; and
4) To formalize a system for collecting, reporting, analyzing, interpreting, and disseminating qualitative as well as quantitative exercise lessons and exemplary practices, and monitor the implementation of improvement actions from both exercise and real-world experiences.