Acronyms
C&O
What is Concepts & Objectives Meeting?
This meeting is held to refine the scope and exercise objections.
What is the Initial Planning Meeting (IPM)?
Corrective actions, documented in this, should be tracked and continually reported on until completion.
What is the After-Action Report Improvement Plan?
Observations documented in the After Action Report should be categorized as either Strengths or these.
What are Areas for Improvement?
During exercise design and development, this group of people use the intent and guidance of senior leaders and program priorities to shape the individual or series of exercises?
Who is the Exercise Planning Team?
FSE
What is Full Scale Exercise?
This meeting serves as the formal end of the exercise planning process and is held to finalize exercise documentation and logistics.
What is the Final Planning Meeting?
This document provides evaluators/notetakers with a standardized tool to guide data collection and capture performance results.
What is Exercise Evaluation Guide (EEG)?
This is the process by which the areas for improvement from the exercise are turned into concrete, measurable corrective actions that strengthen capabilities.
What is Improvement Planning?
This individual determines the structure of the exercise evaluation team based on exercise scope, exercise objectives, associated capabilities, capability targets, and critical tasks.
Who is the Lead Evaluator?
MSEL
For less complex exercises or for organizations with limited resources, this meeting can be conducted in conjunction with the IPM.
What is the C&O Meeting?
This document is used to combine efforts across the elements of the Integrated Preparedness Cycle to make sure that a jurisdiction/organization has the capabilities to handle threats and hazards.
What is the Integrated Preparedness Plan?
This is the process of overseeing and integrating a variety of exercises over time.
What is program management?
This individual is responsible for the strategic oversight and direction on the HSEEP cycle for an individual exercise.
Who is the Exercise Director?
IPPW
What is Integrated Preparedness Planning Workshop?
This meeting allows for each controller, facilitator, and evaluator an opportunity to provide an overview of the functional area observed and discuss the strengths and areas for improvement.
What is Controller/Evaluator Debrief?
This document or system is a chronological timeline of expected actions and scripted events to be injected into exercise play by controllers to generate or prompt player activity.
What is a Master Scenario Events List (MSEL)?
The exercise phase of the Integrated Preparedness Cycle is linked to the program management process and starts this.
What is the design and development of an individual exercise?
This individual monitors exercise progression, communicates exercise activities throughout all venues, and manages the control staff.
Who is the Lead Controller?
HSEEP
What is Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program?
This is a periodic meeting that establishes the strategy and structure for an exercise program, in addition to broader preparedness efforts, while setting the foundation for the planning, conduct, and evaluation of individual exercises.
What is the Integrated Preparedness Planning Workshop?
This is developed during an Integrated Preparedness Planning Workshop by senior leaders to identify and set preparedness priorities.
What is Multi-Year Schedule of Preparedness Activities?
Exercise program managers should identify these individuals to oversee the exercise program and to carry out the necessary exercise to improve capabilities across the whole community.
Who are needed administration and operational staff?
This individual manages the timely and accurate delivery of injects and player actions and decides on the need to release contingency injects.
Who is the MSEL Manager?