emergency response training:
Incident Command Team Training:
The RBTX staff has directly participated in the design, development, coordination, and facilitation of 20 tabletop exercises of Incident Command Team (ICT) at the Executive Department level. This training represented a crawl, walk, run approach to ICT training emphasizing single scenario response events handled by Department personnel only, followed by more than one scenario incident requiring close coordination between diverse elements of the Department’s ICT, and multiple complex scenario incidents that required the Department’s ICT to reach out to external organizations and responders in order to resolve the crises.
Scenarios involved in Department’s Incident Command Team training included:
The RBTX staff has directly participated in the design, development, coordination, and facilitation of 20 tabletop exercises of Incident Command Team (ICT) at the Executive Department level. This training represented a crawl, walk, run approach to ICT training emphasizing single scenario response events handled by Department personnel only, followed by more than one scenario incident requiring close coordination between diverse elements of the Department’s ICT, and multiple complex scenario incidents that required the Department’s ICT to reach out to external organizations and responders in order to resolve the crises.
Scenarios involved in Department’s Incident Command Team training included:
- Fire
- Chlorine gas (derailed tanker ruptures behind Headquarters)
- Anthrax scare
- Sniper attacks
- Flooding
- Active Shooter
- EF4 Tornado
- Ebola virus
- Hostage taking
- Bubonic Plague
- Workplace violence
- VBIED explosion
- Continuity of Operations
Department Incident Command Team Training with Active Shooter scenario
“This Incident Command Team training is an example of how the Federal Government ought to be doing exercises” – Director of National Capitol Region Coordination
“This Incident Command Team training is an example of how the Federal Government ought to be doing exercises” – Director of National Capitol Region Coordination
seminars:
Northeast Blackout of 2003:
The RBTX staff participated in the design, development, coordination and facilitation of an after-the-fact seminar that looked at the Department of Energy’s step-by-step responses to the cascading interdependencies and effects of the events involved in the Northeast Blackout of 2003. The Northeast Blackout of 2003 left an estimated 10 million people in Ontario, Canada and 45 million people in eight U.S. states without electrical power, cut water supplies, dumped raw sewage, left cell towers and ATM machines inoperable, and created large traffic jams. The hour-by-hour post mortem review of actual events as they occurred allowed DOE officials to identify more effective response procedures and mechanisms to both monitor the crisis as well as assist in the restoration of critical services throughout the Northeast.
The RBTX staff participated in the design, development, coordination and facilitation of an after-the-fact seminar that looked at the Department of Energy’s step-by-step responses to the cascading interdependencies and effects of the events involved in the Northeast Blackout of 2003. The Northeast Blackout of 2003 left an estimated 10 million people in Ontario, Canada and 45 million people in eight U.S. states without electrical power, cut water supplies, dumped raw sewage, left cell towers and ATM machines inoperable, and created large traffic jams. The hour-by-hour post mortem review of actual events as they occurred allowed DOE officials to identify more effective response procedures and mechanisms to both monitor the crisis as well as assist in the restoration of critical services throughout the Northeast.
The Northeast Blackout of 2003