Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) Program

[Niko]

https://www2.apan-info.net/mpat/

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The Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) Program is a cooperative multinational effort to facilitate the rapid and effective establishment and/or augmentation of a multinational task force headquarters. The MPAT provides responsive coalition/combined expertise in crisis action planning.</td></tr></tbody></table>
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The Concept

• Operational planning augmentation for multinational staff
• Team composition determined by contingency and nations cooperating in a common response
• May include experts in: Ground, Air, Sea, Communications, Intelligence, Legal, Logistics, Medical, Engineering and other areas as required

The Missions

• Military Operations Other Than War
• Small Scale Contingencies

Vision

• A cadre of multinational military planners from nations with interests in the Asia-Pacific region capable of rapidly augmenting a multinational force headquarters established to plan and execute coalition operations in response to small scale contingencies

Objectives
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• Improve Speed of Multinational Response
• Improve Multinational Force Interoperability
• Increase CTF Mission Effectives
• Unity of Effort

Methods

• Strengthen & Practice Common Crisis Action Planning Procedures
• Develop and become familiar with common Standing Operating Procedures (SOP)

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Future Events (registration links will be activated when officially approved &/or venues selected; invitations and exact location will be passed separately):

MPAT TE-13 Pandemic Influenza Table Top Exercise, 16-20 July 2007 /
Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii
co-hosted by U.S. Pacific Command and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

MNF SOP Workshop-11, November 2007 / Manila (Tentative)

MPAT TE-14 Staff Planning Workshop, March 2008 / Location: TBA

MNF SOP Workshop-12, June 2008 / India (Tentative)

MPAT TE-15 Staff Planning Workshop, July 2008 / Location: TBA

[Niko]

Re: Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) Program

hat-tip Commonground (posted in General Indonesia thread)

Indonesian Government and U.S. Pacific Command Host International
Workshop on Disaster Response

June 15, 2007

Bahasa Indonesia

The Indonesian Armed Forces Headquarters and U.S. Pacific Command are hosting an international workshop on disaster response in Jakarta from June11-15, 2007. Called MPAT TEMPEST EXPRESS-12 Staff Planning Workshop, the activity focuses on a Government of Indonesia-led response to a simulation natural disaster in western Java affecting Jakarta.
The primary goals of the event are to better understand planning of major civilian-led humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations; improve civil-military cooperation among the various organizations involved in disaster response; build on Government of Indonesia and TNI disaster response experience and procedures; educate key planners on basic principles, tasks, and roles and responsibilities of responders to disasters; plan for support by, and the transition (departure) of, international military support in disaster relief operations; and increase familiarity with international military crisis action planning.
The lead response organizations in the workshop are BAKORNAS PB, Indonesia?s lead emergency management agency, and the SATKORLAK Jakarta, Jakarta emergency response organization. These organizations are supported by TNI Headquarters (national level) and the KODAM (Jakarta military area command) with significant ministerial, agency, Red Cross-Red Crescent Movement and local nongovernmental support.
Foreign governments are supporting the event with planning expertise provided by military officers from nations participating in the MPAT Program. International military support is being provided by liaison officers from 22 nations. The international military officers will offer and help coordinate the delivery of international military assistance that might be provided in a major natural disaster. The event is also supported by several UN agencies/funds/programs and international and nongovernmental organizations.

http://jakarta.usembassy.gov/press_rel/goi_pacom_disaster.html

MPAT website details on Indonesia "event" can be found here:

https://www2.apan-info.net/mpat/index.aspx?ct=14&cp=91