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• gtSL. CHANGE ORDER REQUEST One Mission. Yours. Approval from C.O. (Y / N) t Date Deliverable # 28 — SPA III Fall Exercise Exercise Planning and Coordination Statement of Work The Cal SIEC Southern Planning Area has recognized the importance of regularly scheduled training and exercises. The SPA Strategic Plan, Goal 4 -Training and Exercise, states that "...the SPA will ensure that regular interoperable communications training and exercise opportunities are coordinated regionally among public safety practitioners".... Goal 5 of the Strategic Plan further states the "...SPA will support routine usage of regional interoperable communications equipment and Standard Operating Procedures..." The Strategic Plan Goal 5, Initiative S 12 breaks this down even further by stating that the SPA will "... Coordinate and facilitate a regular schedule of interoperability usage drills between operational areas designed to identify gaps in communications capability between contiguous operational areas that will inspire solutions for improving regional interoperability..." Internal to the SPA, over the last couple of years the Inland Interoperability Group has conducted an exercise dubbed the "Radio Rodeo" which brings together agencies from within San Bernardino and Riverside counties and also a number of agencies from Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Imperial Counties, as well as several state and federal agencies. This exercise has proven valuable in establishing common usage procedures, interoperability channels and improving the understanding of the different communications systems within the Inland Interoperability Group and how to improve interoperability. The"Radio Rodeo' also allows respective agencies to actually bring their mobile communications equipment to a central site and actually establish communications links between their respective systems and for agency personnel to see firsthand the type of equipment that neighboring agencies are operating on. Failures to communicate are examined and often interoperab:.lity fixes are identified. The SPA would like to expand the "Radio Rodeo' concept to include as many of the Southern Planning Area Operational Areas as possible. This would have to be accomplished on a voluntary basis and with minimal cost to participating agencies. It is envisioned that this could be accomplished through setting up regional "Radio Rodeos" or clusters which could in turn be linked through the use of existing communications interoperability methods and channels and allow multiple clusters to communicate with each other. The additional effort required for the planning and coordination support to accomplish the expansion would be provided by Willdan Homeland Solutions. This support would consist of outreach to the respective Operational Areas which make up the SPA to: • Solicit and determine participation • Establish an acceptable date to conduct the exercise in the October 2012 timeframe which could maximize participation • Determine cluster locations with input from SPA membership • Develop goals and objectives with input from SPA membership • Publish those goals and objectives in the form of an exercise plan • Distribute exercise plan information • Assist in planning, coordinating, and overseeing all exercise functions • Assist in gathering and distributing lessons learned through an after action report • Gather lessons learned from each participant and publish exercise results through an after action report The intent of the exercise would not be to demonstrate agency response to a large scale event or to conduct a full scale exercise but rather to allow communicators to meet and resolve issues between respective communications systems and work on improving communications operability and interoperability. This communications exercise would better prepare the respective agencies to meet those challenges in the future in a more ambitious exercise or real world event. GTS! Confidential