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2.) '''ISSUE: NETs need clearer guidance and templates on Operations Planning.''' PBEM began requiring NETs to assemble Ops Plans in 2013, but a lack of clarity has led to products that are inconsistent in what they address and leave teams asking questions about their missions that PBEM has not sufficiently responded to. | 2.) '''ISSUE: NETs need clearer guidance and templates on Operations Planning.''' PBEM began requiring NETs to assemble Ops Plans in 2013, but a lack of clarity has led to products that are inconsistent in what they address and leave teams asking questions about their missions that PBEM has not sufficiently responded to. | ||
'''Related problem:''' '''Service area boundaries make no sense.''' For years now, a NET's service area boundaries conform to neighborhood association boundaries. However, those boundaries do not fit with the post-earthquake response capacity available to most teams of NETs. | |||
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3.) '''ISSUE: NETs have only ever been deployed through PBEM-managed centralized deployments.''' Since NET started in 1994, there has ''never'' been an emergency for which NETs self-deployed and activated a team ops plan. And in fact, ''every'' deployment has been PBEM directing NETs on where to go and what to do (even if that response was on a small neighborhood scale, such as putting up a perimeter around a down power line). And in fact, the only kind of disaster imaginable that would prompt NETs to self deploy and use an ops plan is a catastrophic city-scale disaster that brought down communications...in other words, an earthquake. | 3.) '''ISSUE: NETs have only ever been deployed through PBEM-managed centralized deployments.''' Since NET started in 1994, there has ''never'' been an emergency for which NETs self-deployed and activated a team ops plan. And in fact, ''every'' deployment has been PBEM directing NETs on where to go and what to do (even if that response was on a small neighborhood scale, such as putting up a perimeter around a down power line). And in fact, the only kind of disaster imaginable that would prompt NETs to self deploy and use an ops plan is a catastrophic city-scale disaster that brought down communications...in other words, an earthquake. | ||