Over the years, the ISC team has worked with FEMA to coordinate the rapid mobilization of thousands of technical staff and integrate these personnel into the event’s Incident Command Structure. The ISC team has responded to hundreds of natural hazards, man-made disasters, and incidents of national significance. Our catastrophic response and recovery experience includes the 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2004 and 2005 Florida hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina, the 2008 Midwest Floods, 2012 Hurricane Sandy and 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
ISC provides nationwide professional support services in carrying out the statutory authorities of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act under the National Response Framework (NRF). Through ISC’s partnership, these services assist FEMA and the agency’s state and local counterparts in response to nationally declared disasters. As part of a nation-wide team network, ISC provides a variety of services, such as: damage assessments, technical analysis, program management, operational and strategic planning support, training development and delivery, policy analysis, grant management, organizational assessment, and other special studies and assignments. These services are provided under the auspices of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), requiring the coordination and rapid mobilization of technical staff and assists in the integration of these personnel into the event’s Incident Command Structure.
WANT TO KNOW MORE?ISC was requested by FEMA’s Disaster Response & Recovery Directorate to develop an evaluation system for assessing the effectiveness of the NRF to provide a comprehensive, all-hazards approach to catastrophic recovery operations.