FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is currently assisting with the training of 75 National Guardsmen from three states.
This week, 25 members of the Vermont Air National Guard and 12 soldiers from the Maryland Army National Guard will complete two weeks of training on the CDP campus and 38 guardsmen from New Mexico will …
A Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) employee has been chosen to participate in a Department of Homeland Security working group focused on mental health and wellness.
Kelly Ryan, a supervisory instructional systems specialist at the center, was notified of his selection in May.
The working group’s goal is to develop a comprehensive, research-informed approach to …
The partnership between FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Office of Bombing Prevention (OBP) provides added value to the training many responders receive at the CDP.
To-date in 2022, six OBP courses have been conducted on the CDP campus, resulting in 51 completions of its Protective Measures Course …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently completed two sizable paving projects and is gearing up to begin another.
During the past month, aging parking lots at the CDP’s main building and its Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility received new pavement as part of a campus-wide improvement project.
The overall project involves several …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will offer a week of train-the-trainer courses September 11-16, which will prepare attendees to deliver select CDP training to other responders in their communities.
Train-the-trainer courses serve as a force multiplier, enabling participants to train their agency members, partnering agencies and communities in recognition, response and mitigation best practices. …
When an EF-4 tornado struck Winterset, Iowa, on March 5, Diogenes Ayala, director of the Madison County Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, relied on training he received from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) in his response to the storm.
Ayala felt pulled to the emergency management field following 9/11. A native of New …
The 2022 National Preparedness Symposium came to a close today on the campus of FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama.
The annual event was attended by more than 200 people, including federal preparedness coordinators, state training officers, and emergency managers and first responders from across the nation. It featured remarks by FEMA Deputy …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has a library of self-paced, web-based training offerings responders can access anywhere, using a computer or compatible mobile device.
One of the offerings – Homemade Explosives and Precursor Awareness for Public Safety – teaches responders about the types of materials typically used in homemade explosives as well as the reasons …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is working with the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office to create web-based Post-BioWatch Actionable Result Sampling Refresher Training.
The DHS BioWatch Program monitors for biological agents intentionally released into the air. It acts as an early warning system, enabling rapid response to reduce …
This week, FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness concludes its annual Tribal Nations Training Week.
Training during this year’s event spanned more than a month and was held both in residence at the CDP campus in Anniston, Alabama, and virtually.
Resident training was conducted in early March with 75 responders participating in healthcare, law enforcement and …
