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~Wt. -~~ ~ COMBINED AREAS STRATEGIC PLAN FOR TERRORISM PREPAREDNESS currently planned for the OCOA. We will draw on the expertise our EC&C Technical Services. Inc subsidiary" which holds the Western Region ODP Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program Technical Assistance Contract. to develop recommendations for a coordinated exercise program. The exercise program will be targeted to address the most vital needs identified in the risk assessment and to ensure that new training and equipment are accompanied by the opportunity for first responders to use the equipment prior to a WMD incident. URS understands that the UASI strategy is a dynamic process and will quickly evolve. This is especially true as WMD capabilities in the UAs significantly improve during the first year or two of grant funding. Considering this dynamic, URS will provide the UAs with the Microsoft ACCESS database developed for this project protected upon completion of the scope of work. allowing the Urban Areas to update the data on an on-going basis. Spending Strateg' It has been apparent to UAs that have completed the UASI capabilities assessment that the cost to fill all of the needs identified far exceeds any reasonable assumptions about funding that may be available. Consequently. it is necessary for each UA to develop a methodology to prioritize spending to fill the most important needs. URS will use a combination of statistical analysis and consensus building to develop the priorities and spending strategy to be included in the Countywide Strategic Plan for Terrorism Preparedness. This combination will provide a technically supported, reproducible list of spending priorities. We propose establishing priorities at four levels: very high, high, medium and low. This will result in numerous items at each level and will provide the UAs with some flexibility and discretion to select desired items in the higher categories as needs arise. Based on results of the capabilities assessment we will customize the UASI needs prioritization model developed for the San Diego UASI project to meet the needs of the OCOA. Specifically, the model will be adjusted to emphasize strengthening regional preparedness and capabilities in the mutual aid regions of the OCOA. As part of the needs prioritization modeling process, URS will develop a shopping list of various prevention/response elements (e.g. collect PTE intelligence, prevent terrorist from accessing sites, detect WMDs, rescue victims from site after attack. etc.) and a meeting will be organized with select agencies members to rank and weight these prevention-re_"polhP P/Pf7IPfl!S based on group consensus regarding relative importance. Based on information provided during the pre-bid meeting. it is expected that preventions elements may be weighted higher than some response elements. The Delphi method of assessing group consensus will be used. This method involves a discussion of assessment objectives, anonymous voting by each participant regarding the relative importance of the different prevention/response elements, statistical feedback on the distribution of individual responses. an open discussion of the significant differences of opinion, and conducting additional rounds of assessment as necessary. The raw gap for each item listed in the capability assessment under planning, organization, equipment, training, and exercises will be calculated as the difference between the target and current levels of the resource. The gap will be expressed as a percentage of the desired level. For example. if the capability assessment indicates that 4 urban search and rescue (US&R) vehicles are needed and only 1 is present, the gap would be 75%. The impact URS 12