National Security: An Inventory of Professional Development Activities Intended to Improve Interagency Collaboration and Selected Characteristics (GAO-11-109SP, November 2010)
	An E-supplement to GAO-11-108
	Activity Type: Exercise Programs
	A list of abbreviations is provided at the bottom of the page.
	Activity Name	Providing Agency	Activity Description	Target Audience	2009 Approximate Participation
	First-Army: Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Team Pre-Deployment Training	DOD	A 60 to 90 day training exercise providing the knowledge and skills for operating effectively in an Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Team.  Military Provincial Reconstruction Team members participate for 60 days; team leaders for 90 days; and civilian members join their military counterparts for the last 2 - 3 weeks of the exercise.	Primarily military and some civilian personnel scheduled to deploy to an Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Team	2540
	The Interagency Civilian-Military Integration Training Exercise Program	State	A 1-week field exercise program at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Indiana, that provides information about the roles and responsibilities of federal agencies working in Afghanistan and the skills needed to work together in an post-conflict, interagency environment.	USG personnel deploying to Afghanistan to serve on or work with civilian-military platforms, such as Provincial Reconstruction Teams	20
	Food Defense Exercise Program	USDA	A 1-day food defense exercise program hosted several times annually by USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service that focuses on building effective and efficient coordination of state, local, federal agencies, and industry stakeholder responses to food crises incidents, food defense.	GS-13 level (or equivalent) employees and above from federal, state, local, private industry and academia	170
	Foreign Emergency Support Team Quarterly Exercises	State	Quarterly exercises intended to teach Foreign Emergency Support Team members how to work together to assess an emergency involving an embassy and how to best respond to a crisis overseas.	USG members of an interagency team responsible for responding to incidents and crises around the world	Not Available
	National Exercise Program	DHS	A program of exercises that examines and evaluates national policies—such as the National Preparedness Guidelines, National Incident Management System, National Response Framework—on domestic incident management and response to terrorism or nonterrorist catastrophic events.	Federal department and agency principals and other key officials responsible for domestic incident management of terrorism or non-terrorist catastrophic events	Not Available
	NDU, Center for Applied Strategic Learning: Policy-Related Exercises	DOD	These half-day to 2-day, in-person crisis simulations provide policy and decision-making experiences, encouraging interagency dialogue and whole-of-government approaches to future national security challenges.	Mid-level to senior-level civilian and military leadership (GS-13, O-5 and above) and members of Congress	Not Available
	Joint Military Exercises	DOD	Joint exercises range in duration and can be hosted by a military Service or combatant command.  They are typically training events or simulations of wartime operations and could include multinational, nongovernmental, joint, or single-service participants. Rather than focusing solely on DOD's military missions, joint exercises address areas such as counterterrorism, homeland defense and security, combat operations, domestic and foreign consequence management, stability operations, noncombatant evacuations, humanitarian assistance, and disaster response.	Various	Not Available
		Abbreviations
		DHS: Department of Homeland Security
		DOD: Department of Defense
		DOE: Department of Energy
		FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency
		FS: Foreign Service (pay schedule)
		GS: General Schedule
		JPME: Joint Professional Military Education
		NGO: Nongovernmental organization
		NDU: National Defense University
		NNSA: National Nuclear Security Administration
		O: Officer-level (pay schedule)
		ROTC: Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
		SES: Senior Executive Service
		State: Department of State
		Treasury: Department of Treasury
		USAID: United States Agency for International Development
		USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
		USG: United States Government