National Incident Management System (NIMS)

The nation’s ability to address emergent threats is rooted in the strength of its emergency management workforce, partnership and interconnectivity. This interconnectivity, includes the necessity to better integrate across federal agencies and with non-federal partners to quickly assess, adapt, surge, and respond to a wide range of threats and hazards. In support of the National Preparedness Goal, State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) recipients must belong to, be in, or act as a temporary member of EMAC, except for American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which are not required to belong to EMAC at this time. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) was ratified by the U.S. Congress (P.L. 104-321). The FEMA NIMS-EMAC program supports the 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan, Goal 3: Promote and Sustain a Ready FEMA and Prepared Nation, Objective 3.2: Posture FEMA to Meet Current and Emergent Threats, which aligns FEMA’s readiness priorities to adapt to the increased frequency, severity, and complexity of heightened demands on FEMA and the larger emergency management community. One of the ways FEMA will monitor the effectiveness of Objective 3.2 is the composite logistics readiness rate for moving, staging and delivering commodities and equipment for catastrophic disasters performance measure. This measure captures the performance of six components of logistics: contracts, personnel, training, outside of continental U.S. (OCONUS) inventory, continental U.S. (CONUS) inventory, and equipment. Communities can address these challenges by using a systematic approach that builds on proven preparedness activities. The National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides stakeholders across the whole community with the shared vocabulary, systems, and processes to deliver the capabilities described in the National Preparedness System (NPS).