NIMS
The National Incident Management System

2006 Draft Target Capabilities List

The August 2006 Draft Version of the Target Capabilities List is available -
click here for download.

NIMS is the "overarching" system developed by the US Department of Homeland Security to coordinate all emergency response within the United States.

A new NIMS Alert message  was issued by the NIMS Coordination Center on October 30, 2006.  It contains guidance on the 2007 compliance requirements.  An extract of its contents:

Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 “Management of Domestic Incidents” required that states, territories, local jurisdictions and tribal entities adopt the National Incident Management System (NIMS). Over the past two years, all of these entities have made significant progress in implementing the NIMS system. The implementation of the NIMS across the nation creates a baseline capability that, once established, will be the foundation for our prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery strategies. During FY05 and FY06, states were asked to “self-certify” their NIMS compliance.

Fiscal Year 2007:
By September 30, 2007, jurisdictions will be required to comply with the FY07 NIMS requirements to receive FY08 emergency preparedness grants. In FY07, all jurisdictions must comply with specific performance-based metrics. These metrics were derived, in part, from the FY06 required compliance activities and also include some new performance measures.
Metrics will be used to:
• Gather information on the current state of NIMS compliance;
• Identify best practices and areas that may require further technical assistance;
• Provide continued guidance and feedback; and
• Assist with the refinement of metrics and/or data-gathering tools.

County Emergency Managers have completed coordinating the completion of update reports for the 2006 cycle.  All local agencies were required to logon to the NIMCAST management pages, and update their reports.  See our NIMCAST page for more . . .  All "local units of government" (counties, cities) must formally adopt NIMS by Resolution -  a sample Adoption Resolution is available here.

The PADD Point of Contact for this program is Jim Creighton.