Post 911 State DOT Training Needs

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Post 9/11 State DOTTraining Needs

• Presentation to ET Subcommittee of Critical
  Transportation Infrastructure Protection Committee

Douglas Ham, Area Manager PB Farradyne
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Security-related Projects

• National Cooperative Highway Research Program
  projects sponsored by AASHTO Transportation
  Security Task Force
• A Guide to Updating Highway Emergency Response
  Plans for Terrorist Incidents
• National Needs Assessment for Ensuring
  Transportation Infrastructure Security
• Emergency Transportation Operations Preparedness
  and Response Workshop for Statewide Applications
• Guide for Emergency Transportation Operations
• Bridge and Tunnel Vulnerability Assessment
  Workshops
• Other state DOT studies assessments

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Pre 9/11 Security State DOTs

• Security not main consideration
• Emergency preparedness uneven
• Few state DOTs had considered terrorism
• Many emergency operations plans did not address
• Few if any vulnerability assessments
• Minimal training exercising

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Post 9/11 Security State DOTs

• Security more important
• Fostering a security-conscious workforce
• Some emergency operations plans updated or
  created
• Threat level warning procedures developed in some
  DOTs
• Some vulnerability assessments
• Some additional training exercising

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Emergency Management Recommendations

• Emphasize the principles of contemporary
  emergency thinking and recommend state DOTs stay
  within this thinking unless there is good reason
  to do otherwise. Such principles include
• State DOTs should have an agency-wide emergency
  operations plan (which all state DOTs do not as
  yet have)
• State DOT plans and procedures should complement
  the states overall emergency structure and plans
• State DOT plans should adhere to an all-hazards
  approach
• State DOTs should use the conventional emergency
  management cycle for planning (Mitigation
  Preparedness Response Recovery) and within
  that framework, give strong consideration to
  preparation for specific response activities.

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Further Emergency Management Recommendations

• Encourage state DOTs to be a full player within
  their states emergency management community.
• Recognize the need for state DOTs to understand
  the basic concepts of the Incident Command System
  (ICS) and Unified Command (UC) and the NIMS as it
  is further developed.
• Encourage that resources used to prepare for
  terrorist incident responses should be allocated,
  where possible, to pre-event preparedness efforts
  that enable the Department to respond to a range
  of emergencies.
• (From follow-up memo to A Guide to Updating
  Highway Emergency Response Plans for Terrorist
  Incidents)

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Training Considerations

• Response vulnerability assessment
• Field, district HQ staffs (including
  leadership)
• Training to support plans
• Training to protect employees ( families)
• Training includes exercising
• After-action reviews

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Training Recommendations

• Review and inventory terrorism and related
  training to date, identify what additional
  training is needed, and provide that training on
  a continuing basis as necessary.
• Coordinate with other emergency management
  agencies and the private sector on ways to
  develop more and/or improved multi-agency
  exercises.
• (From draft report from Emergency Transportation
  Operations Preparedness and Response Workshop for
  Statewide Applications project)

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Training Needs

• Terrorism awareness (for many/all employees)
• Responder skills (for subset of employees)
• ICS/UC (reflecting changes resulting from likely
  NIMS implementation)
• Hazardous materials
• Weapons of mass destruction
• Personal protection
• Other
• Operational regimes
• DOT other agency/private sector roles
• Information dissemination to public
• Criticality/vulnerability/consequence assessment
• Asset security including sensitive information

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Training Tools

• Web
• Classroom
• Exercises
• Tabletop
• Operational
• Workshops
• Conferences
• Field

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National-level Cost Estimate

• Training 42,250,000/six years
• Develop deliver awareness training (4 hours) to
  100 and responder training (1.5 days plus
  awareness training) to 15 of state DOT staff
  recurring training of 5 of DOT staff on
  awareness and 1 on responder training
• Assumes average DOT staff of 5,000 general
  awareness training at 50 per person responder
  training at 200 per person
• Exercising 140,400,000/six years
• 1 significant exercise at 250,000 2 smaller
  exercises every year at 100,000
• (From National Needs Assessment for Ensuring
  Transportation Infrastructure Security)

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Constraints Challenges

• Resources
• Relating DOT training activities to other
  activities
• Federal/other state/local/private
• Guidance on recommended training exercise
  program
• Information on available training

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NCHRP/TCRP Activities

• AASHTO/NCHRP Field Personnel Training Program
  under development
• NTI is funded under 20-59(6B) at 50,000 in FY
  2004 and (proposed) 50,000 in FY 2005 to provide
  train-the-trainer programs. NTIs program is
  focused on awareness training.
• Publication of the 20-59(6) handbook is
  anticipated in spring 2004.
• A CD-ROM version of the NTI awareness training is
  in contracting right now, and should be available
  mid-2004.
• Two joint TCRP/NCHRP projects in procurement,
  with RFPs due from security task order
  contractors
• NCHRP 20-59(18) TCRP J-10C Guidelines for
  Transportation Emergency Training Drills and
  Exercises
• NCHRP 20-59(21) TCRP J-10F Continuity of
  Operations Plans for Transportation Agencies
• (Above information from Stephan Parker,
  NCHRP/TCRP)

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Contacts

• For further information, contact
• Doug Ham 703-742-5909
• HamD_at_pbworld.com
• Steve Lockwood 301-816-1848
• LockwoodS_at_pbworld.com