Strategic National Stockpile

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The Division of SNS is currently part of CDC's Coordinating Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response.

The SNS successfully deployed a 12-hour Push Package to New York City in response to 9/11 and MI to numerous locations in response to the anthrax attacks of 2001.

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Following landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf coast of Mississippi and Louisiana in September, 2005, officials at CDC deployed stockpile assets, technical assistance and response units, and federal medical contingency stations to state-approved locations near or in the disaster areas. Disaster responses to Hurricane Katrina included new "Federal Medical Contingency Stations" (FMCS) -- austere, rapidly deployed, minimal care medical kits capable of housing, triaging, and holding displaced patients for whom local acute care systems have been incapacitates.

FMCS-equipped facilities are not designed for comprehensive community care needs. FMCS sets are instead designed to offer last-resort care and support during situations in which normal, day-to-day operations are disrupted. CDC is now developing rules under which staff operations can surge from normal 8 hour days to unrestricted work hours; rules governing the scope of care FMCS was designed to support; and systems to standardize and automate CDC business processes.