A bureaucracy that may care more about protecting its turf/rice bowl over getting something done. Yeah, like that hasn't happened.
I keep hearing about the issue of radio connectivity, but how many units can be on the same frequency before it breaks down in chaos? How does that get managed so that searches can be done in different areas without everyone hearing data that's not relevant to them? Who tells the units searching, say, the south county area "you guys go to button five" and ensures that what they find goes up to the powers that be and what they need to know gets to them?
That doesn't sound like something that can be stood up and to make work on the fly, but then how do they make time to practice setting up and running a black swan event?
Also, Lewiston may be to the south, but if you haven't flown over Maine or lived there, you may not appreciate how huge and sparsely-settled much of it is. My memory is that the Halifax Sectional had areas in far-northern Maine where a single cabin was deemed useful as an aeronautical landmark.