The FEMA Exercise Branch designs, develops, conducts, and evaluates exercises, specific to FEMA, including no-notice exercises, operational component exercises, FEMA-wide national level exercises, and, as appropriate, exercises that involve regional offices. It serves as the lead and primary coordinator for FEMA intra-agency exercises, largely those within the Response Directorate, and coordinates FEMA’s participation in interagency exercises to help ensure FEMA’s ability to accomplish its mission. The FEMA Exercise Branch also administers the FEMA Exercise and Evaluation Program (EEP) and co-chairs the associated Exercise Coordination Group, the primary coordinating body on issues of exercise scheduling, budgeting, resource allocation, organization, objective formulation, design, development, conduct, evaluation, and corrective action recommendations.
