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New Tools for Assessing State and Local SNS Readiness
State and local governments play the key role in receiving, distributing, and dispensing materiel from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). Assessing their capability to perform these functions is critical to the success of the SNS program. A growing consensus has emerged that the current checklist-based assessment approach needs to be supplemented to include assessments of jurisdictions’ ability to implement and adapt these plans in real-world situations. This report presents a set of operational drills designed to supplement the current checklist-based system.
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Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction
Chapter Two:
Determining What to Assess
Chapter Three:
How to Assess Capabilities: Main Features of the Proposed System
Chapter Four:
Overview of Assessment Manuals Developed Thus Far
Chapter Five:
Who Should Do the Assessing?
Chapter Six:
Rolling Up the Assessments into an Overall Evaluation
Chapter Seven:
Aggregating Local Assessments into State-Level Scores
Chapter Eight:
Next Steps
Appendix A:
Analysis Used to Select SNS Elements Around Which to Build Assessments
Appendix B:
Operations Manuals for the Proposed Drills
Appendix C:
Draft Mathematical Roll Up Model
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