"The National Standard Exercise Curriculum (NSEC) is working to unify exercise curriculum for coursework in exercise program management, design, development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning among Federal, State, Territorial, Tribal, and local partners. The National Standard Exercise Curriculum will reflect the broad collaboration and consistency within and across Departments, agencies, and levels of government espoused by the National Preparedness Goal, related Presidential Directives and the National Exercise Plan (NEP). Additionally, the curriculum will provide guidance to State and local jurisdictions concerning exercise training and ensure established policy is reinforced, corroborated, and institutionalized through education and training. The following major objectives of the curriculum development process will be accomplished with the advice of the working group and the consent of the policy development committee: (1) Establish planning guidance to align coursework into a national standardized exercise curriculum (2) Ensure consistency across all exercise training curricula in accordance with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and National Preparedness Goal (3) Shape future efforts in exercise training and course development (4) Integrate the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) into the Master Exercise Practitioner (MEP) Program". (FEMA, National Exercise Division, HSEEP, Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2008, p. 4).