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Federal Emergency Management Agency: Grants and Training Office Training Program

Supports Federal, state, and local programs for training first responders on terrorism preparedness skills and capabilities, especially involving weapons of mass destruction. The program develops curricula, monitors grant-funded training programs, and administers the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The Program has developed training that addresses critical skills and abilities needed by state and local responders to prepare, prevent, and respond to a terrorist incident. It still lacks independent evaluations, or a methodology for comparing the performance of different training programs and providers.
  • Coordination and consistency with other Federal preparedness training programs is limited. Little progress has been made on developing a broader interagency preparedness training framework required under Homeland Security Presidential Directive Eight.
  • Funding and available training slots are not well targeted. Funding for several major training centers is based past appropriation earmarks, not competition or effectiveness. Training slots are allocated by state population, not by risk of terrorist attacks.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Standardizing assessments of homeland security knowledge, skills and abilities, and using this data to compare the impact of training among trainees, training providers, and programs.
  • Completing development of the National Training Program required under Homeland Security Presidential Directive Eight, in coordination with DHS components and Federal agency partners.
  • Pursuing greater flexibility in allocation of grant funding to training partners, and certifying more state/local training providers.

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