National Response Framework (Second Edition)

The National Response Framework (Second Edition) is a national cross-sectoral framework of the United States of America. Its main objective is to guide to how the Nation responds to all types of disasters and emergencies.
More specifically, the Framework aims to describe scalable, flexible, and adaptable coordinating structures, as well as key roles and responsibilities for integrating capabilities across the whole community, to support the efforts of local, state, tribal, territorial, insular area, and Federal governments in responding to actual and potential incidents; describe, across the whole community, the steps needed to prepare for delivering the response core capabilities; foster integration and coordination of activities within the Response mission area; outline how the Response mission area relates to the other mission areas, as well as the relationship between the Response core capabilities and the core capabilities in other mission areas; and provide guidance through doctrine and establish the foundation for the development of the supplemental Response Federal Interagency Operational Plan (FIOP).