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An All-of-Government Approach to Increase Resilience for International Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Events A Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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3 Increasing Coordination for the Response to an International CBRN Event: Break Out Groups and Next Steps
Pages 35-40

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... government efforts for coordinated response to CBRN events in partner nations? Groups consisted of approximately 20-25 participants composed of the workshop attendees, panelists, and steering committee members.
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... government response to international events, participants from Group Two raised issues such as the need for better information management and situational awareness; assessing and characterizing problems in advance; and harnessing disaster relief capabilities outside the CBRN spectrum. This group also suggested that more practice on how to respond to international emergencies was required, as was consideration of who will pay for international response before a disaster happens.
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... government could use with partner nations following an event. Lesperence said that this led to a group discussion about how CBRN subject matter experts could support response efforts led by Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART)
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... Participants suggested that one useful mechanism for coordinating response could be to plug into existing incident command structures that already include standards for response. Building from this, other participants emphasized the need for standards that could help facilitate interoperability between different agencies and international response entities.
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... Working Group Three – Standards for International CBRN Response The third working group focused on opportunities for developing a body of international guidelines, standard operating procedures, and other standards for response to catastrophic events, such as a CBRN event. Participants suggested that standards and common guidelines could enhance the effectiveness of response efforts by the United States and its partner nations, both domestically and internationally.
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... in various countries could provide a successful venue for convening work on developing standards; providing a neutral environment committed to scientific rigor and developing conclusions and recommendations based on research and evidence. Science academies and associated institutions could also build broad constituencies that include the senior, in-country experts who are often well connected to their respective governments, and simultaneously tap pools of young incountry scientists that would carry these efforts forward into the future.
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