These guidelines will ensure that more services are ICS trained and can communicate with other agencies during a large-scale incident. The National Incident Management System or NIMS was formulated by the Department of Homeland Security under orders from President George W. Bush. The program was established in March 2004 as a way to further reduce barriers to communication, command and jurisdiction in large-scale emergency events. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, released a statement saying the following about NIMS: NIMS provides a consistent, flexible, and adaptable national framework within which government and private entities at all levels can work together to manage home incidents, regardless of their cause, size, location or complexity. This flexibility applies to all phases of incident management: prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and