United States Coast Guard
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COMDTINST 3010.19D
12 January 2015
COMMANDANT INSTRUCTION 3010.19D
COAST GUARD AFTER ACTION PROGRAM
(a) National Incident Management System Training Program, September 2011
(b) Contingency Preparedness Planning Manual Volume III – Exercises, COMDTINST
1. PURPOSE. This Instruction establishes policy, guidance, and responsibilities for the Coast Guard
After Action Program (CGAAP) to document and act on lessons identified in contingency operations
and exercises. This Instruction establishes the requirement to utilize the Contingency Preparedness
System (CPS) as the system of record for the CGAAP.
2. ACTION. All Coast Guard unit commanders, commanding officers, officers-in-charge,
deputy/assistant commandants, and chiefs of headquarters staff elements will comply with the
provisions of this instruction. Internet release is authorized.
3. DIRECTIVES AFFECTED. Coast Guard After Action Program (CGAAP), COMDTINST
3010.19C is cancelled.
4. BACKGROUND.
a. The Coast Guard has captured lessons learned, best practices, and recommended improvement
actions identified during contingency exercises and actual events since 1978. Various systems
were used to store and retrieve this information until 2003, when the web-based CPS was
launched to electronically link Coast Guard contingency plans, exercise planning, and after
action reporting.
b. CPS is the application that supports the CGAAP. While the Department of Defense (DoD)/Joint
Staff and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) each have lessons learned information
systems, CPS provides the functionality required by the Coast Guard to rapidly retrieve data on
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