National-Level Planning Documents

The key planning documents at the national level include: National Planning Frameworks for the five mission areas. The frameworks are succinct, high-level descriptions for each of the five mission areas of the coordinating structures necessary to: (1) deliver the core capabilities from that mission area, and (2) support the delivery of core capabilities from the other mission areas. Federal Interagency Operational Plans (FIOP) for the five mission areas. These plans are the Federal Government’s concept of operations documents. They go into more depth on how Federal agencies align resources, work together and, in some cases, how they support or complement activities that take place in the private sector and at other levels of government in the public sector. The FIOP highlights how the federal government delivers core capabilities which we discussed in the National Preparedness Goal. Supporting Department-Level Operational Plans. Additional documents will describe how Federal departments and agencies will fulfill their individual responsibilities as defined in the interagency operational plans.