Organization & authority
Common terminology, command relationships, position scope, and accountable resource requests.
Doctrine & evaluation
A stated standard.
An observable decision.
NIMS and ICS provide the organizational vocabulary. HSEEP provides the exercise-evaluation framework. City SeCUReD connects those foundations to the decisions and records produced during an exercise.
Built into the system
Doctrine informs
what an action means.
The repository represents NIMS/ICS terms, positions, entity states, and procedural operations in code. Guards can refuse actions that do not meet an operation’s requirements; refusals are recorded with their reasons.
This gives the exercise a consistent language for responsibility, authorization, and review. It does not replace the jurisdiction’s own plans or the evaluator’s judgment.
Objectives & procedures
Exercise objectives, procedural preconditions, sequenced actions, and documentation.
Evidence & findings
Recorded actions and decisions provide a basis for review, including refusals and missing evidence.
How evaluation is framed
Assess the exercise.
Document the participant’s evidence.
The exercise leader selects objectives and the criteria to examine. The repository distinguishes an exercise’s capability ratings from an individual participant’s training record.
Exercise evaluation
Capability → target → critical task
HSEEP-based evaluation connects a core capability to an exercise-specific target and observable critical tasks. Findings should explain the evidence, the standard, and the area for improvement.
Participant record
What the person actually did
Participant records preserve observed evidence and assessment coverage. A missing detector or unconnected source must be identified as unobservable or not assessed, rather than treated as a participant failure.
Project rubric
Consistent checks, with stated limits
The implementation includes checks for exercise marking, required position activation, orders, synthesis, and record consistency. Project-specific evidence mappings and weights are editorial choices requiring practitioner validation.
Benchmarking
Hold the conditions steady.
Compare the procedure.
Matched scenarios and fixed seeds let exercise leaders compare response strategies against the same starting conditions.
Review objective attainment, recorded actions, and the reason for differences between runs. The benchmark harness supports deterministic controls and model-driven arms, with limitations reported alongside results.
A benchmark result describes performance inside the simulator. It does not establish real-incident effectiveness, forecast outcomes, or confer professional certification.
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