Pre-Positioned Disaster Supplies (PPDS) Program
Pre-Positioned Disaster Supplies (PPDS) Program :
"The Pre-Positioned Disaster Supplies (PPDS) Program was developed to position life saving and life sustaining disaster equipment and supplies as close to a potential disaster site as possible. The goal is to substantially shorten the response time from incident to delivery of these initial critical assets... The strategy is to place PPDS containers in hurricane/typhoon-prone states first, then earthquake-prone, then highly populous metropolitan areas.... PPDS containers are also stockpiled at various locations where containers are staged and ready for transport as threats arise". (FEMA. "Homeland Security's Pre-Positioned Disaster Supplies (PPDS) Program," May 16, 2006)
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