The aim of the template is to raise awareness and build capacity with respect to the preparedness, risk assessment, and consequence management of biological incidents and to strengthen the capabilities of states to prevent and combat terrorism.
The Defense Department last year stood up the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive consequence management response force in order to beef up the nation's ability to respond to such attacks.
A second strategic development occurred when USNORTHCOM and the Department of the Army directed USARNORTH to serve as the operational lead to further develop and coordinate consequence management response capability for chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and highyield explosives (CBRNE) incidents.
In a statement the US Navy said: "The exercise will test the capabilities of all participants to effectively manage the integration of critical command and control, security, and consequence management resources".
Schoof, Crisis Management in Japan & the United States: Creating Opportunities For Cooperation Amid Dramatic Change (a joint American/Japanese project conducted by The Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis and The Osaka School for International Public Policy, Osaka University) is a close examination of how the United States and Japan have each overhauled their crisis and consequence management structures in order to prevent and respond to disasters.
And it could do more by leveraging WMD expertise through planning, training, exercises, and consequence management to support the homeland defense mission.
It establishes conceptual guidance for assessing and monitoring a developing threat, notifying appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies of the nature of the threat, and deploying the requisite advisory and technical resources to assist the Lead Federal Agency (LFA) in facilitating interdepartmental coordination of crisis and consequence management activities.
[1] All levels of government, from the executive branch of the federal government to city and town leaders, must consider how they would manage a WMD attack, especially how they would make a successful transition from crisis management at the scene to consequence management (i.
