Did you see the list of supporting agencies?
What the heck are
United States Postal Service National Preparedness Specialists?
I did a search and found one commenting on a site for postal employees on whether the cost of conferences were beneficial to employees.
I’m a National Preparedness EAS {Executive & Adminstrative Schedule] field employee (HQ department). As a field employee I have to travel (by car) as part of a multi state responsibility to monitor exercises and give trainings. We are made to go to a yearly PO conference at Bolger Academy in Potomac, MD, and stay at the Bolger Hotel there (Free Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner-who’s paying for this, the PO of course). This is what happens when the PO HQ hires an outside contractor (with no PO background), and makes him a PCES in charge of 60 people nation-wide. We were just told of a new scheduled NP conference (been going on for years) at Bolger Academy this December 3-6th 2013 for a week of trainings/meeting time for all NP personnel (workers and managers).
linkBolger isn't your grandpa's hotel meeting place.
linkAnd in case you were worried the Bolger is IACC approved. The
IACC is an organizations that sets standards for conference centers including what kind of tables and chairs the conference center can use. Sounds like the kind of thing a government agency would love. It's hilarious reading the requirements. I bet there's some postal rule that they can only have conferences at IACC approved facilities. lol
This is just from going to IDP's original link. I haven't looked at much. But think not only have bureaucrats at every gov't agency we have specialist within each who are being trained to think they are going to protect the gov't.