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The following is an exert from the Intoduction of the NIMS Five-Year Training Plan. The full plan can be downloaded in pdf here
The National Incident Management System (NIMS) represents a core set of doctrine, concepts, principles, terminology, and organizational processes that enables effective, efficient, and collaborative incident management across all emergency management and incident response organizations and disciplines. The President of the United States of America has directed Federal agencies to adopt NIMS and encouraged adoption of NIMS by all stakeholders—Federal, State, territorial, tribal, sub-state regional, and local governments, private sector organizations, critical infrastructure owners and operators, and nongovernmental organizations involved in emergency management and/or incident response. As initially laid out in Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD)–5, Management of Domestic Incidents, which established NIMS, adoption and implementation of the NIMS by State, tribal, and local organizations is one of the conditions for receiving Federal preparedness assistance (through grants, contracts, and other activities).
Adequately trained and qualified emergency management/response personnel are critical to the national implementation of NIMS. In particular, the NIMS document describes the National Integration Center's (NIC) responsibility to develop "a national program for NIMS education and awareness," and to facilitate common national standards for personnel qualification. The Five-Year NIMS Training Plan will guide the NIC's activities to support NIMS training and education. The Plan is comprehensive, covering NIC responsibilities and actions as well as those of all stakeholders.
A critical piece of the Five-Year NIMS Training Plan is the description of a National Training Program for NIMS. This document introduces a National Training Program for NIMS, which compiles the NIC's existing and on-going development of NIMS training and guidance for personnel qualification. Previous guidance on NIMS training has been updated and is issued as Appendices of this document. The National Training Program for NIMS will develop and maintain a common national foundation for training and qualifying emergency management/response personnel. To achieve a national goal of well trained and qualified emergency management/response personnel, able to work together effectively and efficiently during any incident, the National Training Program for NIMS has three broad objectives.
These objectives are:
1. Support NIMS education and training for all stakeholder emergency management/response personnel;
2. Adapt the functional capabilities defined by the NIMS into guidelines and courses that help stakeholders develop personnel training and credentialing plans that yield the desired capabilities; and
3. Define the minimum personnel qualifications required for service on complex multi-jurisdictional incidents nationwide, a term used in this document to denote incidents that require responders to hold credentials under the National Emergency Responder Credentialing System, in development by FEMA.8
8 Some information about the forthcoming National Emergency Responder Credentialing System is available at: http://www.oes.ca.gov/Operational/OESHome.nsf/PDF/NIMS%20Credentialing/$file/credentialingFAQ.pdf. It is also recommended that stakeholders adopt the same qualification and credentialing for service on smaller, day-to-day incidents
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