California Emergency Management Agency

Training & Exercises

Golden Guardian 2010

SWEPC Update Briefing

Jim Ayre
Asst. Secretary of Exercise and Training
 Agenda

• Golden Guardian 2010 Overview

• Discussion & Questions

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 Golden Guardian
• Golden Guardian 10 Summary
– The sixth Full-Scale Exercise (FSE) in the Governor’s
Golden Guardian Exercise Series since 2004
– 2010 theme is terrorist attack
– Aligned with the National Exercise Program
– Will take place over multiple days in May 2010
– Developed in a collaborative process in order to meet
participants’ needs
• Assess selected State Emergency Functions/Target Capabilities
• Assess regional capabilities developed in a collaborative planning
process within the framework of statewide exercise goals.
 Approved
Statewide Goals
• Assess Federal, State, Regional, and Local information sharing
capabilities through a Preventative Exercise
• Evaluate State, Regional, and Local response to effects of
terrorist attack in a neighboring State and to a terrorist attack in a
major California Port
– Exercise EMAC and direct communications with a neighboring state
– Re-assess coordination of response in a port
• Examine recovery aspects of local terrorist catastrophic incidents
• Support regional response to a catastrophic terrorist incident in a
neighboring state
– Assess state-to-state SOC issue resolution, coordination, and resource
support to a neighboring state.

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 Approved State Capabilities
to be Assessed
Corresponding Target
State Emergency Functions Capabilities
• Communications • Communications
• Long-Term Recovery • Economic &
Community Recovery
• Public Information • Emergency Public
Information & Warning
• Management • EOC Management
• Hazardous Materials • WMD/Hazardous
Materials Response &
Decontamination
• Evacuation • Citizen Evacuation &
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 General Concept
Terrorism Centric
• 3 day exercise in May 2010
• Center of gravity:
– Prevent, Respond to & Recover from Terrorist
incidents:
• Neighboring FEMA IX State
• In California ports
• Support other concurrent exercises through
Regional Planning Teams
– Comprised of local & CalEMA exercise planners
needed
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 Focus of Assessment
• State Capabilities through SOC &
participating state agencies
• Selected Regional Capabilities through Coastal
REOC
• Selected through collaborative process with
regional and local participants
• Coordinated through a Regional Planning Team
comprised of Local, Regional, and CalEMA
Exercise Planners and Subject Matter Experts
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 Current Participants
(as of August 26, 2009)

• 13 Counties
• 1 UASI
• 10 Cities
• 6 Ports
• 21 State Agencies
• 4 Federal Agencies

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 Golden Guardian 2010
(Purposed Scope of Play)
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
May 17 May 18 May 19
Terrorist
Attack in Bay
Area Port
Coastal REOC and local EOCs open (Assess Selected
Regional Capabilities from the TCL)

Other exercises conducted

concurrently throughout CA

(Assess selected CA-EFs)

SOC opens
Conducts mutual aid with neighboring state

Executive Level TTX

Terrorist •Recovery from terrorist
Attack incident in a port

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 Proposed Planning Cycle
CY 2009 – Timeline
S ta te S ta te
S ta te A g e n cy S ta te A g e n cy
A g e n cy A g e n cy
IP C MPC
C&O MSE L C onf
8/2 6/0 9 1 0/2 1/0 9
6/1 0/0 9 1 2/9/0 9
P o rt S e cu rity
-
IR IP C IR M P C IR M S E L
N o rth
8/1 2/0 9 O ct C o n f#1
6/2 3/0 9
TBD TBD

M ar09 A p r09 M ay 09 Ju n09 Ju l 09 A u g09 S ep09 O ct09 N o v0 9 D ec09

CR MPC
C R C&O C R IP C 1 1/1 1/0 9
5/2 8/0 9 7/1 3/0 9
SR MSEL
S R C&O S R IP C SR MPC
C onf
7/1/0 9 8/5/0 9 1 2/2/0 9
1 0/2 6-2 8/0 9

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 Proposed Planning Cycle
CY 2010 – Timeline
GG 10 G G 10 Conduct
Functional 5/17-18/2010
Exercise
3/16/10 IR
SIMC ELL Executive
Trng Recovery
SA Mar/Apr TTX
IR FPC TBD 5/19/10
3/18/10 IR IR C/E IR AAC
MSEL Jun TBD
FPC Trng
C onf#2
Mar TBD Apr TBD
Jan TBD

Jan 10 Feb 10 Mar 10 Apr 10 M ay 10 Jun 10 Jul 10 Aug 10

SR CR CR CR
SIMC ELL SR FPC C/E Trng MSEL SR
Trng FPC 4/14/10 4/27-28/10 Walk-thru AAC
2/15-17/10 3/17/10 5/6/10 6/23/10
CR
SIMC ELL Trng
4/228-29/10

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 Points of Contact
Steven Goff Tom Tornell
Director, Exercises Coastal Region Lead Planner
Steven.Goff@calema.ca.gov Thomas.Tornell@ohs.ca.gov
Cell: 916.826.8117 Cell: 916.826.8090

Jim Woodward Pam Perdue

Golden Guardian Lead Planner Southern Region Lead Planner
James.Woodward@ohs.ca.gov Pamela.Perdue@ohs.ca.gov
Cell: 916.439.3546 Cell: 916.261.4541

Elaine Viray Sharon Avery

State Agencies Lead Planner Inland Region Lead Planner
Elaine.Viray@ohs.ca.gov Sharon.Avery@ohs.ca.gov
Cell: 916.826.4722 Cell: 916.437.9496
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