Tempest Express is a France-hosted and U.S.-cosponsored multinational workshop designed to prepare French Armed Forces New Caledonia (FANC) and Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) partner-nation defense personnel for multinational missions to include; Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief (HADR) Operations, Peace Enforcement Operations (PEO), Pandemic Response Operations, Maritime Security Operations (MARSEC), and national Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) planning tasks.