NIMS Resources and Information On February 28, 2003, President
Bush issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive–5 (HSPD-5).
HSPD–5 directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop
and administer a National Incident Management System (NIMS).
NIMS provides a consistent nationwide template to enable all
government, private-sector, and nongovernmental organizations to
work together during domestic incidents. NIMS is a
comprehensive, national approach to incident management that is
applicable at all jurisdictional levels and across functional
disciplines. The intent of NIMS is to: - Be applicable across a
full spectrum of potential incidents and hazard scenarios,
regardless of size or complexity. - Improve coordination and
cooperation between public and private entities in a variety of
domestic incident management activities. Lessons learned from
previous large-scale disasters point to a need for a National
Incident Management System. Emergencies occur every day
somewhere in the United Sates. These emerg