EMAC Resource Readiness
Build a Mission Ready Package Before You Need It.
Document your deployable resource now - its people, equipment, capabilities, logistics, and estimated costs - so your organization can respond with confidence when assistance is needed.
An MRP is not a deployment commitment. It is a ready-to-use description of a resource your organization may be able to provide through EMAC.
Why build now?
Save time when time matters most.
During an emergency, your team should be deciding whether it can deploy, not trying to assemble critical resource information from scratch. A Mission Ready Package brings that information together before an incident occurs, so your organization can respond quickly and deploy with confidence when assistance is needed.
| Decision point | Without a prepared MRP | With a prepared MRP |
|---|---|---|
| Resource details | Determine personnel, equipment, and capabilities during the incident delaying your response. | Start with a defined, deployable capability that is ready to deploy. |
| Cost estimates | Learn about eligible expenses, calculate personnel, equipment, travel, lodging, and other anticipated costs under pressure. | Start with estimated costs that can be quickly reviewed and updated for the mission. |
| Operational needs | Work through qualifications, transportation, logistics, rotations, and support needs during the incident. | Know what the resource and personnel need to deploy safely and effectively. |
| Ready to Offer | Spend valuable time gathering information and resolving details before an offer can be made. | Confirm availability, update mission-specific details, and move quickly to an offer. |
Respond Faster
Start with a defined resource package so you can quickly respond to a request and submit an offer.
Deploy with Confidence
Plan personnel, equipment, qualifications, logistics, rotations, and deployment requirements before the mission.
Protect Reimbursement
Understand eligible expenses and documentation requirements, estimate mission-related costs, and improve cost visibility before deployment.
Know what to prepare
What goes into a Mission Ready Package?
An MRP defines a specific mission or capability and captures what is needed to deploy it for a defined period of time - including personnel, equipment, logistics, operational requirements, limitations, and estimated costs.
Before you begin, gather the right information.
Building an MRP is a team effort. You may need information from across your organization to build a complete and accurate MRP. Work with the appropriate operations, finance/administration, personnel, and logistics staff to gather the information you need.
- Mission capability and deployment requirements
- Personnel, qualifications, rates, and rotations
- Equipment, rates, and operational requirements
- Travel and logistical requirements
- Estimated mission-related costs
- Operational limits, support needs, and readiness timeline
MASS organizes every Mission Ready Package into 10 sections. Explore each section below to understand what information you will need to prepare before building your MRP.
01 MRP Details Define the resource, its mission capability, and what it needs to deploy.
Start with a clear description of the resource and the mission it can perform so Requesting and Assisting States can understand the capability being offered.
NIMS alignment is encouraged, but it is not required. If no national resource type or job position/qualification matches your resource, describe it in clear, simple, thorough language consistent with NIMS resource-typing principles. If you believe a national resource type or qualification is needed, let us know.
02 Point of Contact Identify who is responsible for the MRP and how they can be reached.
Provide dependable contact information for the person responsible for the resource and its Mission Ready Package.
03 Travel Estimate how personnel will travel, lodge, and sustain themselves during the mission.
Develop realistic travel assumptions for the resource. Estimates can be updated once an actual mission location and duration are known.
Your deployment destination may not be known when the MRP is created. Use reasonable planning assumptions and update travel costs when the package is used for a specific mission.
04 Personnel Define who is needed, how they will work, and the anticipated personnel costs.
Identify the personnel required to perform the mission, including qualifications, work schedules, rotations, and anticipated personnel costs.
Personnel salary and fringe information may require assistance from your finance or administration staff.
05 Equipment Identify the equipment required to perform and support the mission.
Document the equipment that deploys with the resource and any requirements that affect how it is transported, staged, operated, or supported.
06 Equipment R&R Plan for maintenance, repair, replacement, rehabilitation, and decontamination.
Consider what the equipment may require during deployment and what may be necessary to return it to service after the mission.
07 Commodities Identify expendable supplies and consumable items needed for the mission.
Include consumable items that will be used during the mission and need to be replaced as they are consumed.
08 Other Capture mission-related expenses that do not fit another cost category.
Use this section for anticipated mission-related costs that are not appropriately captured under travel, personnel, equipment, or commodities.
09 Cost Estimate Review the complete estimated cost of deploying the resource.
MASS brings together the costs entered throughout the MRP to provide a planning estimate for the mission.
An MRP is a planning estimate. Costs should be reasonable, eligible, mission-related, and consistent with applicable jurisdictional or state policies. Actual reimbursement still requires appropriate documentation and review.
10 Federal Funding Identify federal investments that helped build or sustain the capability.
If federal funding supported elements of the Mission Ready Package, identify the applicable funding programs so those investments in deployable mutual-aid capabilities can be reported.
Confirm the resource can be deployed.
Before developing an MRP, work with your State Emergency Management Agency to confirm that the resource can be legally deployed through intrastate or interstate mutual aid.