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36: 94:'s Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program. The investment justification submitted to the department highlighted the need to address the failures of the Hurricane Katrina response, noting the unprecedented and massive scale of operations that would be required by the nation (United States) if a catastrophe similar to Katrina were to befall the 106:
As the project has evolved and the Regional Logistics Program has made its work available for widespread use, these operational components, plans and tools have been assembled into a Universal Logistics Standard that can be specifically implemented within the
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stakeholders can build a comprehensive disaster logistics program. The Universal Logistics Standard was developed by the Regional Logistics Program under the oversight of the NY-NJ-CT-PA Regional Catastrophic Planning Team, which is funded as part of the
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Holguín-Veras, José; Pérez, Noel; Ukkusuri, Satish; Wachtendorf, Tricia; Brown, Bethany (1 December 2007). "Emergency Logistics Issues Affecting the Response to Katrina: A Synthesis and Preliminary Suggestions for Improvement".
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and posed serious logistical challenges to the governmental agencies, volunteer organizations, private sector partners and individual citizens that were active in the response and recovery operations. While the magnitude of the
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disaster is widely considered a key factor for the logistics failures that ensued in its aftermath, evaluations and research on the logistical response by all levels of government identified the following key shortcomings:
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Near non-existent integration between state and federal logistics systems encouraged state and local response officials to abandon the established plans and procedures for requesting and managing critical supplies and
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To address these shortcomings, in 2008 the NY-NJ-CT-PA Regional Catastrophic Planning Team received funding for the creation of the Regional Logistics Program as a competitive, high-value project awarded through the
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Logistics Centers, which supplement emergency management agencies with an operation to receive resource requests and conduct resource management or movement control strategies specifically needed for an incident
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operations that function to manage incoming shipments of critical commodities, supplies and resources as they arrive into an impacted area and are assigned to meet specific operational needs during a response.
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is a strategic framework for managing disaster response among local, state, regional and federal disaster response personnel. Its intended use is as a foundation on which local, state and federal
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A number of tactical tools have been designed to assist with implementation of the Universal Logistics Standard in areas such as volunteer and donation management,
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It consists of plans and guides on strategies, components and tactical tools that enable disaster logisticians to plan and execute operations with common
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Commodity Point of Distributions, which are independent operations to distribute food, water and critical supplies to the general public.
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Procurement delays, due to bureaucratic requirements at all levels of government and the lack of purchasing agreements with suppliers.
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Government agencies were not adequately staffed with personnel who had experience or skills in complex logistics operations.
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Near total failure in regional communications created problems with agency coordination and response logistics.
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Critical supplies, resources and assets were not effectively prepositioned to support the required response.
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agencies with trained logisticians to support complex logistics operations needed for an incident response.
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To date, four components are available to emergency management agencies to support these strategies:
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Asset visibility was almost totally obstructed throughout all points in emergency supply chains.
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Planning for the handling and distribution of donations was insufficient.
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Area Logistics Emergency Response Teams, which provide
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Index

emergency management
US Department of Homeland Security

Hurricane Katrina
U.S. Gulf Coast
Hurricane Katrina
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
NY-NJ-CT-PA project site
NY-NJ-CT-PA project site
United States
logistics
emergency management
tactics
Resource Management
emergency management
just-in-time
credentialing
private sector
"Adopting a Disaster Logistics Doctrine: The Universal Logistics Standard"
"Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant Program (RCPGP) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)"
doi
10.3141/2022-09
"2010 Demographic Profile Data for the New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA"
"Regional Logistics Program: Linking Resources, Expertise and Information"




"The Universal Logistics Standard"
Category

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