Item 35 - FY 2022 Emergency Management Performance Grant

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25 standardized resource management concepts such as typing, credentialing, and inventorying promote a strong national mutual aid capability needed to support the delivery of core capabilities. Additional information on resource management, NIMS resource typing definitions, job titles, and position qualifications is available at NIMS Components - Guidance and Tools | FEMA.gov. Please also see the individual program appendices in this Manual for additional requirements regarding NIMS implementation for specific programs. FEMA developed the NIMS Guideline for the National Qualification System (NQS) to describe national credentialing standards and to provide written guidance regarding the use of those standards. This guideline describes credentialing and typing processes and identifies tools that Federal Emergency Response Officials and emergency managers at all levels of government may use both routinely and to facilitate multijurisdictional coordinated responses. Starting in FY 2023, EMPG program recipients are required to use EMPG Program funds to support NQS implementation efforts. Additional information about NIMS in general is available on FEMA’s website at National Incident Management System | FEMA.gov. The NQS doctrine promotes interoperability by establishing a common language for defining job titles and by enabling jurisdictions and organizations to plan for, request, and have confidence in the capabilities of personnel deployed for disasters and emergencies from other entities through mutual aid agreements and compacts. Following the concepts and processes in this Guideline will enhance national preparedness by expanding the network of qualified incident management and support personnel who can be deployed nationwide. Additional information about NIMS implementation is available at NIMS Implementation and Training | FEMA.gov. FirstNet The Middle-Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, Pub. L. No. 112-96, as amended (codified in part at 47 U.S.C. §§ 1401-1473) established the First Responder Network Authority (hereinafter FirstNet Authority) as an independent authority within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). 47 U.S.C. § 1424(a). The FirstNet Authority’s statutory mission is to establish a nationwide public safety broadband network (FirstNet). 47 U.S.C. § 1426(b). FirstNet uses the 700 MHz D block spectrum to provide Long-Term Evolution (LTE)-based broadband services and applications to public safety entities. 47 U.S.C. §§ 1401(2), 1421(a). FirstNet became operational in March 2018 and is based on a single, national network architecture that evolves with technological advances and consists of a physically separate evolved packet core (EPC) network and radio access networks (RANs). FirstNet provides public safety entities with mission-critical broadband data capabilities and services including, but not limited to messaging, image sharing, video streaming, group text, voice, data storage, application, location-based services, and Quality of Service, Priority, and Preemption. Public safety entities seeking to enhance their operational capabilities using broadband technology may seek grant funding from appropriate programs to support the following: •Planning for integration of information technology (IT) infrastructure, software, and site upgrades necessary to connect to FirstNet; •Handheld broadband devices including smartphones, feature phones, tablets, wearables, push-to- talk (PTT) devices; •Vehicle-mounted or otherwise field operated data devices, such as ruggedized laptops;