What does NRF stand for?

They make recommendations to FEMA and discuss the National Response Framework, the role of National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters in information sharing, and improvements FEMA has made to services.

The working group's findings could mean changes to the country's blueprint for disaster response, known as the National Response Framework, Fugate said.

In January 2008, the Department of Homeland Security issued the National Response Framework (NRF) to replace the NRP.

The new national response framework, released in March, is expected to enhance preparedness by providing a detailed plan for response and short-term recovery.

Today, we fully embrace the principles outlined in the National Response Framework as we work daily to identify and confront the myriad of homeland security challenges our nation faces.

The successful demonstration is a significant step forward in the deployment of the DHS's Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) platform, a middleware foundation that enables commercial and government incident management technologies to share information and support decisions for the National Response Framework and National Incident Management to prevent, protect, respond, and recover from natural, technological, and terrorist events.

They also constitute a major source of the nation's mass care and related disaster services and are integrated into the 2008 National Response Framework.

Coordinated through FEMA, the "Spring Ahead" demonstration will involve Federal, State, local and private sector National Response Framework (NRF), National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) and National Continuity Policy Implementation Plan (NCPIP) stakeholders.