Bomb Threat Tabletop Exercise Package

CISA’s Tabletop Exercise Packages (CTEP) are a comprehensive set of resources designed to assist stakeholders in conducting their own exercises. Partners can use CTEPs to increase their organization’s resilience by assessing and validating capabilities and identifying areas for improvement.

This Bomb Threat Tabletop Exercise is an interactive, discussion-based exercise focused on a suspicious activity, followed by a bomb threat. The scenario consists of three modules: Intelligence and Information Sharing, Incident Response, and Recovery and Continuity.

The objectives for this scenario are:

1. Review emergency preparedness plans and response procedures to a suspicious activity event and a follow-on bomb threat.
2. Examine threat and incident information sharing, notification, and communication procedures between a facility or organization's partners, focusing on intelligence community partners and law enforcement.
3. Examine public messaging and information plans and procedures related to an active threat.
4. Discuss recovery and continuity plans and procedures following suspicious activity events and a bomb threat.