Remember that key operational components that may be activated to respond to an incident include the NRCC, RRCC, and JFO, representing the national, regional, and incident levels of Federal incident response.

When a State, tribe, or territory requests Federal assistance from the FEMA Regional Office, that office will:

• Activate the RRCC.
• Notify national leadership.
• Deploy an IMAT in support of disaster response operations and to lay the foundation for establishing a JFO.
• Operate under the direction of the FEMA Regional Administrator.
• Direct the RRCC to coordinate Federal regional response efforts until the JFO is established.

When the JFO is established, its primary function is coordinating the resource needs of the State, tribe, territory, and local community through the Federal response and recovery system. However, FEMA also has a control and coordinating role in managing Federal resources using an ICS structure and practicing the ICS principles at the incident level. You learned about this in Lesson 4.