Are there prototype exercises for Infrastructure Recovery that would apply to public works?
We have no prototype exercises for Infrastructure Recovery at this time because they involve long-term operations. We have focused on EOC start-up and immediate response activities because they are critical and they lend themselves to real-time exercises, 2-3 hour long. The problem with a Recovery Exercise, especially for public works, is the long time span required in real-time. However, I believe that realistic Recovery Exercises could be developed. For example, since realistic voice messages are at the heart of our exercises, we could combine several exercises to produce several hundred real-time voice messages over a period of a few days!
