Civil Support Team
With this fielding began the development and evolution of new capabilities and concepts to ensure that DoD could support evolving interagency response plans.The certified WMD-CSTs provide unique capabilities, expertise, and technologies to assist the governors in preparing for and responding to a CBRN situation.The WMD-CST is manned, trained, and equipped to conduct continuous operations for a minimum of 72 hours using organic table of distribution and allowances (TDA) assets.Codified as the Response Management Plan (RMP), this document ensures that a designated number of WMD-CSTs are always ready to respond to a national need, or to fill a request of a State without an available WMD-CST.Therefore, this plan is intended to be activated only when a specific support request is received at the NGB Joint Coordination Center (JoCC).