National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC)

The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC) is a training partner and established training arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS/ FEMA. It is a professional alliance of seven national institutions and organizations that work to develop and deliver training, technical assistance, plan assessments, and exercises to emergency responders and first receivers at the territories, state, local and tribal levels. The members were chosen for their unique knowledge bases in the areas of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive, medical, critical infrastructure, and incident management, and have enhanced their core competencies at the request of DHS and FEMA to include other areas as well. The following is a list of the NDPC members and their core competencies:

• Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP)Center for Domestic Preparedness – prevention, deterrence, and response to CBRNE hazards and healthcare/public health mass casualty.

• National Center for Biomedical Research and Training (NCBRT) at Louisiana State University – biological, law enforcement, and agroterrorism prevention, deterrence, and response.

• National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA/CTOS-Center for Radiological/Nuclear Training at the Nevada National Security Site – prevention, deterrence, and response to radiological/nuclear incidents.

• Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at New Mexico Tech University EMRTC - explosive and incendiary attacks.

• Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center TEEX – cyber security, crisis communications, executive and elected officials education, hazardous materials awareness and operations, health and medical services, incident management, infrastructure protection, search and rescue, threat and risk assessment, and training gap analysis.

• National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at University of Hawaii - natural disasters, coastal communities, islands and territories and underserved at-risk populations.

• Transportation Technology Center, Inc. TTCI – rail and surface transportation safety, integrity and security research and testing, security and emergency response in surface transportation.

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