Homeland Security Institute - Capabitily Planning

This Capabilities-Based Planning Instrument (CBPI) was designed by the Homeland Security Institute to help you align your existing preparedness strategies with national goals. It allows you to use a simple, interactive process to find and assemble information contained in current federal guidance, including the National Preparedness Goal, Universal Task List, and Target Capabilities List.
The CBPI can help you to:

Enhance your training and exercise Planning Exercises program

Use the CBPI to identify "mission essential" tasks that your entity is responsible for performing during major events
Find out which nationally-recommended training courses will provide your personnel with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform their essential tasks.
Evaluate your performance during exercises and real world events using national performance measures.

Define your capability requirements National Responce Plan

Use the CBPI to identify capabilities your entity needs to perform your homeland security missions.
Compare your current capabilities with national target capability measures.
Determine what capability development will have the greatest impact on improving preparedness. Future federal assistance will be tied to building required capabilities.

Update your plans

Use the CBPI to identify target capabilities that are associated with the plan or annex that you are interested in updating.
Compare your plan or annex with the related target capabilities to ensure that all critical topics are addressed
Compare your plan or annex with the related target capability descriptions to ensure that it is aligned with national goals.

The CBPI provides an easy and efficient process for you to start capabilities-based planning. By selecting from a series CBPI of dropdown menus, you can bring together the information you need from current federal guidance documents.

The CBPI will also help you to become more familiar with the National Preparedness Goal's implementation processes and terminology.
We welcome your feedback as we continue to develop and refine the CBPI.