The National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC) enhances the preparedness of state, local, territorial and tribal emergency responders to reduce the nation’s vulnerability to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, natural disasters, and other all-hazard, high-consequence events. The NDPC develops, delivers, and assesses response plans and provides training, technical assistance and exercises.
Since its inception in 1998, the NDPC has trained over four million state, local, tribal and territorial emergency responders. In 2021, the NDPC delivered 4,113 trainings to over 154 thousand individuals. Although a commendable accomplishment, there remains a significant backlog of training requests from state, local, tribal and territorial agencies needing the important training provided by the NDPC.
NDPC members are certified training partners of DHS/FEMA’s National Training and Education Division. The NDPC has recently requested an increase in funding in order to begin to reduce the level of unmet training needs; however, two challenges have made a timely funding increase even more critical. As the nation overcomes the COVID-19 pandemic, we are experiencing a rapid increase in training requests. There are also increased demands for training to support readiness, climate disasters, workforce development and social equity. These requests coincide with sharply rising costs associated with training development and delivery.
Because of these combined factors, it is vital that the NDPC receives an increase in funding. If these responders’ needs are not met with appropriate, quality training, it will compromise their abilities to remain prepared to protect their communities from threats.
NDPC training provides state, local, tribal and territorial stakeholders the knowledge and skills necessary to keep our nation safe from a range of threats. The NDPC stands ready and respectfully requests an increase in funding to ensure success.
About the NDPC:
The NDPC is a partnership of several nationally recognized organizations whose membership is based on the urgent need to address the preparedness needs of the nation’s emergency first responders within the context of all hazards. The consortium is made up of seven members: the Center for Domestic Preparedness, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, LSU’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training/Academy of Counter-Terrorist Education, Texas A&M’s Engineering Extension Service’s National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center, Counter Terrorism Operations Support (CTOS) at the Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site, Security and Emergency Response Training Center (SERTC), Transportation Technology Center Inc. (TTCI) Pueblo CO., and the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii.
