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National Incident Management System: maximizing the integration of activities connected with incident management, preparedness, response and recovery
NIMS has been designed with the sole purpose of integrating emergency practices on all levels of government. These practices include mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery and NIMS provides the single platform where all these practices would merge in order to better respond to national terrorist crises. The strengths of the program are:
1. It provides standards for organizational structures, processes and procedures
2. It also offers standards for planning, training and exercising of emergency practices
3. It integrates technologies such as voice and data communication systems, information systems and data display systems (Bullock, p. 53)
Weaknesses
1. extensive training required to understand the system properly
2. not enough trained individuals available who can handle the complexities of NIMS
3. NIMS is dependent on NRP for effective utilization of its capabilities and for its final success
National Response Plan
With the help of NIMS, NRP provides a better response system by:
1. optimizing the use of available resources needed for effective incident management
3. improving incident-related communication so more awareness can be created and the situation can be better handled (Bullock, p. 357)
Weaknesses
1. The complex nature of terrorist attacks may still not be fully understood by NRP. The federal response plan was replaced by this new document because it could be seen that FRP lacked some critical features which had made country more vulnerable. NRP seeks to address those loopholes but it is still too early to say if it truly understands the complexity of vulnerabilities that America is faced with today.
2. Terrorists attacks today are far more varied in technique, planning and execution and NRP may not be able to respond to all of them because of lack of resources
3. NRP doesn't fully address the need for additional resources. It seeks to integrate the ones already available but doesn't address the issue of insufficient resources.
References
Jane Bullock, George Haddow. Introduction to Homeland Security, Second Edition (Butterworth-Heinemann Homeland Security) Butterworth-Heinemann; 2 edition (April 13, 2006)
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