Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC)
Outreach Meeting
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 (1:00 - 3:00 PM eastern)
Reception Immediately following 3:00 - 5:00 PM

Please RSVP to: dcrecept@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Multi-Sector Crisis Management Consortium (MSCMC)

http://www.mscmc.org/

Syed Qadir
MSCMC Chair
Executive Director, National Response Center

Location:

Alliance Center for Collaboration, Education, Science and Software

(ACCESS)

Ballston Metro Center Office Tower, Suite 800

901 North Stuart Street

Arlington, Virginia 22203

Phone: 703.248.0072

Fax: 703.248.0100

Email: dcrecept@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Directions:

http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/directions.html

http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/schedule.html

Agenda:

1:00 - 1:10 PM

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

Janet Thot-Thompson

MSCMC Executive Director

NCSA ACCESS Director

http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/

Syed Qadir

MSCMC Chair

Executive Director, National Response Center

http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/

1:10 - 2:15 PM PRESENTATION - TOP OFFICIALS 2 (TOPOFF 2) EXERCISE PLANNING

This presentation will focus on the TOPOFF 2 (T2) exercise series, which

is currently in planning and the initial stages of execution. T2 is a congressionally-mandated, national combating Weapons of Mass

Destruction (WMD) biennial terrorism exercise.

 

TOPOFF 2000, the first TOPOFF exercise conducted in May 2000, was a single, no-notice full-scale multi-venue exercise. Unlike TOPOFF 2000, T2, while retaining the multi-venue format of its predecessor, will also have an

international component and will use a cycle of exercise activity of increasing complexity. The goals of T2 are to:

(1) Improve the nation's capacity to manage complex/extreme events.

(2) Create broader operating frameworks of expert crisis and consequence

management systems.

(3) Validate authorities, strategies, plans, policies, procedures, and

protocols.

(4) Build a sustainable, systematic national exercise program to support a

national homeland security strategy.

2:15 - 2:45 PM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

2:45 - 3:00 PM CLOSING REMARKS

3:00 - 5:00 PM RECEPTION

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Technical Information

AccessGrid venue = ACCESS DC

AccessGrid www site = http://www.mcs.anl.gov/fl/accessgrid

Teleconference numbers: Toll free: 1-877 607-8979; UIUC local: 1- 217 244-7532

ACCESS Polycom Bridge server = 205.253.57.82

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ACCESS contact: Tom Coffin = tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu 703-248-0105

ACCESS DPPT3 server = ball.ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu

Slide repository = http://calder.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ACCESS/PPT/021120mscmc/pdf