FEMA National Integration Center
Recognizing the need to keep NIMS current and relevant within the emergency management and homeland security communities, the Secretary of Homeland Security established the NIMS Integration Center, now National Integration Center, in June 2004. The National Integration Center is a division with FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate and is the primary government office responsible for the maintenance and management of NIMS. The National Integration Center collaborates with Federal, State, Tribal, and local communities and the private sector to provide strategic direction for, and oversight of, NIMS:
- supporting routine maintenance and continuous refinement of the system and its components;
- identification and communication of NIMS adoption and implementation activities;
- the development and distribution of guidance relating to typing of resources and credentialing of emergency response personnel;
- the development and facilitation of NIMS training; and
- the oversight of the routine review and revision of NIMS.
For more information on NIMS and NIMS implementation, contact the National Integration Center - 500 C Street, SW Washington, DC 20472
- Phone: (202) 646-3850
- NIMS Resource Center: www.fema.gov/nims
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