[1] It is a professional alliance of seven national institutions and organizations that work to develop and deliver training, technical assistance, plan assessments, and exercises to emergency responders and first receivers at the territories, state, local and tribal levels.
• National Center for Biomedical Research and Training (NCBRT) at Louisiana State University – biological, law enforcement, and agroterrorism prevention, deterrence, and response.
• Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at New Mexico Tech University EMRTC - explosive and incendiary attacks.
• Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center TEEX – cyber security, crisis communications, executive and elected officials education, hazardous materials awareness and operations, health and medical services, incident management, infrastructure protection, search and rescue, threat and risk assessment, and training gap analysis.
Mission The mission of the NDPC is to enhance the preparedness of territories, state, local, and tribal emergency responders/first receivers and teams, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, to reduce the Nation’s vulnerability to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, all-hazard high-consequence events by developing, delivering, and assessing plans, training, technical assistance, and exercises.