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Operations and Workforce Development Committee (OWDC)
(formerly Incident Operations Standards Working Team and the Training Working Team)


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Assignments/Areas of Primary Responsibility

January 2012

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Agreements/Charters Chair
Annual Report Chair
Area Command/National IC’s NASF (Hanneman)
Budget Development Chair
DHS Competency Change Management Board Fleming
DHS Fire/HazMat Group BIA (Koch)
DHS IMWG Koontz
Geographic Coordination Groups/Boards  
Alaska
BLM (Arnberger)
California
FireScope (Hafner)

Eastern

Eastern States (DJohnson)

NICC

NPS (Koontz)

Northern Rockies

FS (Van Bruggen)

Rocky Mountain

FWS (Conn)

Southwest

BIA (Koch)

Great Basin

NPS (Koontz)

Northwest

BLM (Arnberger)

Southern

Southern States(Utley)
Geographic Area Training Representatives MJohnson/Fleming 
Glossary Change Board BIA (Koch)
International Fire Training FS (Van Bruggen)
IQS Eastern States (DJohnson)
Incident Management System Consortium FireScope (Hafner)
Liaison to Other Working Teams  

Communication, Education, and Prevention Com.

Western States (Stoffel)

Fire Environment Committee

NPS (Koontz)

Fire Equipment Technology Committee

NASF General (Hanneman)

Fuels Management Committee

FWS (Conn)

Incident Business Committee

FWS (Conn)

Information Technology Committee

IQCS Business Steward (Morgen)

Publications Management System

Chair

Risk Management Committee

BIA (Koch)

WUI Mitigation Committee

Southern States (Utley)

Leadership SubCommittee

NASF (Hanneman)

Nature Conservancy

TNC (Heumann)

NRF NIMS

NPS (Koontz)
National Interagency Aviation Committee Aviation Rep (Gibbs)
Position Naming Board Subcommittee IQCS Business Steward (Morgen)
Team Member Recognition Logistics
Website/OWDC Homepage Logistics

Liaison Roles and Responsibilities

  1. Formal business will follow the chain of command. i.e.: Issue papers, requests for change. Communication will go through the Committee from the sub-committees to OWDC.
  2. Informal business i.e.: information sharing should be communicated at the appropriate level.
  3. Committee communication of issues. Forward issues to Chair for coordination and dissemination.
  4. When working with other committees ask what the time constraints are and why the issue coming forward is time sensitive.
  5. Liaisons are conduits not advocates.