---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 764"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "764"
heading: "National exercise simulation center"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/764"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Emergency Management"
  - "Subchapter II — Comprehensive Preparedness System"
  - "Part B — Additional Preparedness"
---

# §764. National exercise simulation center


The President shall establish a national exercise simulation [center](/usc/6/681.md?p=1) that—

- (1) uses a mix of live, virtual, and constructive simulations to—
  - (A) prepare elected officials, [emergency](/usc/6/701.md?p=6) managers, [emergency response providers](/usc/6/194.md?p=g-2), and [emergency](/usc/6/701.md?p=6) support providers at all levels of government to operate cohesively;
  - (B) provide a learning environment for the [homeland](/usc/6/126.md?p=g-1) security personnel of all Federal [agencies](/usc/6/701.md?p=2);
  - (C) assist in the development of operational procedures and exercises, particularly those based on [catastrophic incidents](/usc/6/701.md?p=4); and
  - (D) allow [incident](/usc/6/383.md?p=i-2) commanders to exercise decisionmaking in a simulated environment; and
- (2) uses modeling and simulation for training, exercises, and command and control functions at the operational level.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 664, Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1433.)