The new agreement will enhance NORAD by including a maritime warning responsibility in addition to its long-standing aerospace warning and airspace control responsibilities. This will allow a more complete picture of potential threats to North America.
The American Red Cross plans to expand its capacity to handle disasters by increasing stockpiles of supplies and plans to build partnerships with comminity groups.
The table-top exercises will focus on several key preparedness and disaster response functions, including evacuations, sheltering, National Response Plan implementation, and National Incident Management System activation.
"By the end of this year, each urban area is going to get a score card, a public score card, that will identity gaps and help us to determine the improvements we need to make in the near term." Michael Chertoff, Secretary Department of Homeland Security.
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