“In August of 2006, the Secretary [DHS] directed the creation of the Interagency Incident Management Planning Team (IMPT) …The mission of the IMPT is to provide national-level contingency and crisis-action incident management planning through a collaborative, interagency process. The IMPT’s planning focus is designed to be at the strategic level, whereas FEMA’s planning focus is at the operational level, as laid out in the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act. The IMPT comprises two components: (1) a core group of 15 full-time planning representatives from key DHS elements (e.g., FEMA, TSA, CBP, Coast Guard, I&A, as well as other key interagency members (e.g., DoD, DOJ/FBI, HHS, DOE, EPA, DOT, and the American Red Cross); and (2) an ‘on-call’ staff of 38 planners that includes other members from both DHS and the interagency community. Each member assigned to the IMPT has undergone a robust training program to prepare each of them for their planning responsibilities. “The IMPT’s initial actions have focused on the development of national, strategic interagency concept plans (CONPLANS) that address each of the 15 National Planning Scenarios. These allthreats and all-hazards scenarios include nuclear, chemical, biological, natural disaster, and cyber incidents….Each plan developed by the IMPT identifies the actions that individual departments and agencies, including DoD, will take in the event a given scenario were to occur. A critical function of the IMPT is to identify the national level commitments of the entire interagency in one comprehensive document. This effort serves two distinct purposes: First, it facilitates the ability of the Secretary to fulfill his coordination responsibilities under HSPD-5 by providing awareness of the individual capabilities that a specific agency plans to deliver; and (2) it identifies existing seams and gaps that exist within the interagency for a particular scenario”. (DHS, Statement of VADM Roger Ruff, July 19, 2007, pp. 2-3)