Item 18 - Resolution, Agreement, and Appropriation Adjustment Accepting the FY 2024 Emergency Management Performance Grant

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Preparedness Grants Manual in the National Preparedness System. As recipients and subrecipients of federal preparedness (ND) grant awards, jurisdictions and organizations must achieve, or be actively working to achieve, all the NIMS Implementation Objectives. These objectives and implementation information can be found on the NIMS and NIMS Implementation and Training pages on FEMA.gov. Emergency management and incident response activities require carefully managed resources (personnel, teams, facilities, equipment, and/or supplies) to meet incident needs. NIMS defines a national, interoperable approach for sharing resources, coordinating, and managing incidents, and communicating information. Incident management refers to how incidents are managed across all homeland security activities, including prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. Utilization of the 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 the NIMS Components – Guidance and Tools page on FEMA.gov. Please also see the relevant NOFOs for additional requirements regarding NIMS implementation for specific programs. 4.7.1. NIMS GUIDANCE FOR THE NATIONAL QUALIFICATION SYSTEM 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. 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. 4.8.SAFECOM Guidance Compliance Lessons learned from recent major disasters, unplanned events, and full-scale exercises have identified a need for greater coordination of emergency communications among senior elected officials, emergency management agencies, and first responders at all levels of government. Federal responders arriving on the scene of a domestic incident are not always able to communicate with SLTT response agencies, as well as key government officials. State and local first responders sometimes experience similar problems, particularly when the incident requires a multi-agency, regional response effort or when primary communications capabilities fail. This lack of operability and interoperability between federal and SLTT agencies―further complicated by problems with communications survivability and resilience―has hindered the ability to share critical information, which can compromise the unity-of-effort required for an effective incident response. Departments and agencies at all levels of government have identified a need for improvement in several high-priority areas, including Governance, Planning, Training and Exercises, Operational Coordination, and Technology. In addition, communications resilience and continuity should be viewed as a critical component within each of these areas. These priorities are explained in detail in Section 2 of the SAFECOM Guidance on Emergency Communications Grants (SAFECOM Guidance). 24