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Ramsey County, Minnesota law enforcement officers next to a simulated casualty during an active shooter response exercise at the Arden Hills Army Training Site. Active shooter training (sometimes termed active shooter response training or active shooter preparation) addresses the threat of an active shooter by providing awareness, preparation, prevention, and response methods.
In 2008, the United States Department of Homeland Security defined an active shooter as "an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area; in most cases, active shooters use firearms and there is no pattern or method to their selection of victims." [3]
According to their official website, the mission of the CDP is to identify, develop, test and deliver training to state, local and tribal emergency response providers; provide on-site and mobile training at the performance, management and planning levels; and facilitate the delivery of training by the training partners of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Fusion centers are terrorism prevention and response centers, many of which were created under a joint project between the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs between 2003 and 2007. The fusion centers gather information from government sources as well as their partners in the private ...
By this point in time, the FCDA came under the Department of Defense and was re-titled the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (DCPA). In 1979, then President Jimmy Carter brought together a number of Federal agencies that had involvement in disasters, including DCPA, and created a new, amalgamated organization, the Federal Emergency Management ...
The Human Factors and Behavioral Sciences Division (HFD) is a division of the Science and Technology Directorate of the United States Department of Homeland Security.Within the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, HFD applies social and behavioral sciences to improve detection, analysis, and understanding and response to homeland security threats.
In 2002, the National Strategy for Homeland Security motivated Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD) 5, 7, and 8 providing the national initiatives. [2] Within these initiatives, HSEEP focuses on development of exercise around capabilities-based planning, National Response Plan (NRP), National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Universal Task List (UTL) and the Target ...
The first version of the NIFOG was published in September 2007. It was developed in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Spectrum Management Office [4] to assist Federal and non-Federal agencies and potential users of the mutual aid channels. The NIFOG contains sections on: