How flexible is it to allow the user to design exercises (based upon time allowed for the exercise) for biochemical and chemical events?
Message insertion times, objectives, message taxed, and expected actions can be modified on an Excel spreadsheet. Time allowed for each exercise can be automatically expanded or contracted, but normally 1.5-3.5 hours is a reasonable range. Message insertion times spread out, proportionally. Continued: Although the EOC exercises can be overhauled, the goal of the product was to provide Emergency managers with a quick way to set up (in as little as two hours) and conduct a realistic EOC exercise, not to introduce them to an exercise design process. The exercise design is in the content of the messages. I have talked to hundreds of the ends at country at county level and below. Most of them neither have the time nor the inclination to design exercises (especially smaller jurisdictions), but they are interested in conducting EOC exercises. Our EOC exercises fill that need.
