[DHS Briefing] National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) Overview & Status NECP's goal is emergency response communications interoperability. What is the current status and what lies ahead?  A pre-recorded, no cost, program is available now.      RATINGS: [SP] [CS] [CM] [EM] [MD]  Program Description The National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) is a cooperative effort of the United States Department of Homeland Security and emergency services stakeholders from Federal, State, local, and tribal agencies. The NECP is a strategic plan that establishes a national vision for the future state of emergency communications. The desired future state is that emergency responders can communicate as needed, on demand, and as authorized at all levels of government and across all disciplines. To measure progress toward the vision, three strategic goals were established: Goal 1: By 2010, 90 percent of all high-risk urban areas designated within the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) are able to demonstrate response-level emergency communications within one hour for routine events involving multiple jurisdictions and agencies. Goal 2: By 2011, 75 percent of non-UASI jurisdictions are able to demonstrate response-level emergency communications within one hour for routine events involving multiple jurisdictions and agencies. Goal 3: By 2013, 75 percent of all jurisdictions are able to demonstrate response-level emergency communications within three hours, in the event of a significant incident as outlined in national planning scenarios. This thirty minute LEAPS.TV DHS Briefing will provide a broad introduction to the NECP, a status report of current progress toward the Goals outlined in the plan and a look at the way ahead. [Recommend this LEAPS.TV program to a colleague.] Presenter Bio Chris Essid, Director DHS Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) Chris Essid is the First Director of Department of Homeland Security's Office of Emergency Communications (OEC), within the Office of Cyber Security and Communications. Mr. Essid is responsible for leading the Office in its mission to accelerate and attain operable and interoperable emergency communications among public safety agencies and across US Federal, state, local, and tribal governments nationwide. Mr. Essid brings a wealth of emergency communications experience to OEC. For the last 4 years he served as the first Interoperability Coordinator for the Commonwealth of Virginia within the Governor's Office. While in that role, Mr. Essid led Virginia to develop the Nation's first Statewide Communications Interoperability Plan, established the State Interoperability Executive Committee, and coordinated the creation of three strategic radio caches to improve statewide tactical communications response. Additionally, during Mr. Essid's tenure, Virginia implemented a common language protocol that transitioned emergency responders from disparate 10-codes to plain language. Mr. Essid developed a practitioner-driven approach within Virginia that is widely recognized as the catalyst for these successes and resulted in a winning partnership among state, local, and private sector communications efforts. As Interoperability Coordinator, Mr. Essid served on the SAFECOM Emergency Response Council, Commonwealth Preparedness Working Group, Virginia Interoperability Executive Committee, National Capital Region Programmatic Working Group for Interoperability, Capital Wireless Integrated Net Executive Board, and chaired the All Hazards Consortium Interoperability Working Group. Mr. Essid has a BA in History from the University of Kentucky and an MA in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma. Advisors   > Lloyd Moskowitz, Program Advisor         Director of 911 Communications, Gaston County Public Safety Background/Preparatory Reading The National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) is clearly described in this 80 page Department of Homeland Security document. In addition to 41 pages of document text there are an additional 39 pages of appendices that provide deeper, more specific coverage of specific points in the main body of the document itself, including Appendix 1: NECP Legislative Requirements Compliance Matrix, Appendix 2: Alignment with National Strategies, Planning Initiatives, and Key Authorities, Appendix 3: Key Federal Emergency Communications Initiatives, Programs, Systems, and Services, Appendix 4: DHS Organizations with Responsibilities and Programs Supporting Emergency Communications, Appendix 5: The SAFECOM Interoperability Continuum, Appendix 6: NECP Stakeholder Coordination, Appendix 7: NECP Source Documents and Appendix 8, a 33 page Glossary of Terms. While it is not required to read this document prior to reviewing this LEAPS.TV program reading this document is strongly recommended in order to get the greatest benefit from this program and to better understand its content. If you do not read this document as pre-reading you might wish to consider this as a post-reading exercise. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/national_emergency_communications_plan.pdf Sponsored by This program is being made available at no charge to the law enforcement and public safety community thanks to the generous support of The Law Enforcement And Public Safety Channel.