Unmatched homeland security training and real-world exercises are hallmarks of the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). Since 1998, TEEX's National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center (NERRTC) has provided emergency responders and jurisdictions with hands-on, scenario-driven WMD training and exercises to prepare them for terrorist attacks. As the founding member of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, NERRTC has delivered WMD training on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for more than 175,000 responders in nearly 7,000 jurisdictions in all 50 states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.

The Texas Engineering Extension Service is doubling the size of its Emergency Operations Training Center (EOTC), which serves as the home of one of the nation's top courses for computer-simulated incident management training. The now 31,000-square-foot Emergency Operations Training Center (EOTC) uses state-of-the-art simulation and computer-based technologies to train first responders and city officials to manage a crisis through a unified command approach. Located adjacent to Disaster City in College Station, the multi-million-dollar training center optically links active and virtual simulations, including direct links to active response in Disaster City.

Disaster City® is the most comprehensive emergency response training facility in the world. This state-of-the-art, 52-acre training facility is designed to simulate an endless variety of disaster scenarios involving structural collapse and can be customized for the specific training needs of any group. Disaster City® is filled with full-scale, collapsible structures that would be found in every community, including a single family dwelling, strip mall, office complex, public assembly hall, industrial complex, train derailments, and real rubble piles over tunneling systems. Disaster City can deliver the full array of search and rescue skills and techniques needed by today's emergency response professionals.

The 120-acre Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station is the largest in the United States and includes full-scale buildings, towers, tanks, industrial plant structures and a ship that are used during life-like training simulations. Other training aids are used for classes in high-rise rescue, aircraft firefighting, passenger train emergency response, structural collapse/heavy rescue and other mass-casualty emergencies.

The Central Texas Police Academy (CTPA) incorporates the latest technology and instructional techniques for training entry-level law enforcement professionals. CTPA is the primary training provider for law enforcement agencies in the Brazos Valley area, but also accepts recruits from all over Texas. The dedicated instructional staff has earned a statewide reputation for graduating some of the most outstanding cadets in Texas. CTPA's day and evening academies are conducted at Texas A&M University's Riverside Campus in Bryan, Texas. CTPA is licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE).

Three TEEX training divisions are located at the Texas A&M Riverside Campus, a 1,900-acre campus adjacent to State Highway 47 and Highway 21 west of Bryan. TEEX occupies about 100,000 square feet of offices, classrooms and laboratories. The agency also maintains outdoor training facilities at Riverside, including overhead and underground electric power training fields, a firing range for law enforcement officers, a heavy equipment training field and an emergency vehicle-driving track.