Interagency Logistics Education and Training: Building Homeland Defense and Civil Support Liaisons

摘要

The Interagency Logistics Course (ILC) offered by the Army Logistics University helps prepare local- through national-level agencies to participate in a national disaster response should the need arise. Based on recent weather-related disasters, it appears that the time to prepare for future disasters is now. Part of this preparation was the National Level Exercise (NLE) 2011, which validated the ability of the participating states and agencies to prepare and coordinate a multiple-jurisdiction, integrated response to a simulated national catastrophic event in the central U.S. region known as the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). Now that NLE 2011 is over, after-action reports and discussions will likely indicate that there is a tremendous need and value added when the "Whole Government" community trains together before a catastrophic event takes place.