Emergency preparedness, opportunities exist to strengthen interagency assessments and accountability for closing capability gaps : report to congressional requesters.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.

Standardized Title:

Emergency preparedness: opportunities exist to strengthen interagency assessments and accountability for closing capability gaps

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--United States.

Emergency management.

Interagency coordination--United States.

Interagency coordination.

United States.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 79 pages) : color illustrations

Other Title:

Opportunities exist to strengthen interagency assessments and accountability for closing capability gaps

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2014.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

"No-notice catastrophic disasters pose one of the greatest challenges to national emergency preparedness. Emergency support functions (ESFs) are federal interagency coordinating structures that group capabilities into functional areas most frequently needed in a national response. GAO was asked to review federal preparedness to respond to no-notice catastrophic disasters, such as improvised nuclear device (IND) attacks and major earthquakes. This report assesses the extent to which opportunities exist to enhance (1) assessment of ESF preparedness and (2) management oversight of the closure of federal capability gaps identified in selected exercises, real-world incidents, and other assessments. GAO reviewed relevant laws, directives, strategies, and plans; analyzed recommended corrective actions from national-level exercises and other interagency assessments; reviewed documents and interviewed officials from five federal departments key to disaster response (Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and Justice); and compared current processes against internal control standards and leading program management practices"--Preliminary page

Contents:

Background

ESF coordinators conduct their oversight responsibilities in various ways, but opportunities exist to strengthen the assessment of ESF preparedness

Federal departments identified corrective actions to address capability gaps, but management oversight of implementation status could be improved

Conclusions.

Notes:

"December 2014."

"GAO-15-20."

"Revised December 9, 2015, to correct a formatting error on page 28."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF cover (GAO, viewed January 2, 2015).

OCLC:

899137400