# Presentation: 544533

## The National Communications System (NCS)The Mission and Organization

**Lt Col Joanne Sechrest**
**Mgr, Priority Telecommunications Branch**
** ****DHS/ IAIP/ NCS**
**joanne.sechrest@dhs.gov**
**703.607.4960**
**http://www.ncs.gov**

## Mission: Assist the President, NSC, OSTP, and OMB

- Exercise communications functions and responsibilities in wartime and non-wartime emergencies
- Perform planning for and provision of National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) communications for the Federal Government under all circumstances, including crisis or emergency, attack, recovery and reconstitution
- Bottom line: We assure the nation’s communications                                                                                                                                               backbone

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## The National Communications System

**“****Helping to Ensure the Security of the Nation”**

**Critical Infrastructure Protection**

**Cuban Missile**
** ****Crisis (1962)**

_**1961-1981**_

**NCS (1963)**

**NCC**
**(1984)**

**Cold War**

_**1992- 2004**_

**EO 12472**
**NCS Expanded **(**1984)**

_**1981-1991**_

**EO 12656**
**Further NS/EP **
**Definition**
**(1988)**

**Divestiture**
**(1984)**

**FRP Revised**
**(1995)**

**FRP w/**
**Comm Annex**
**(1992)**

**FRP Revised**
**(1999**)

**Department of Homeland Security**
**(March 2003)**

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**National Security**
**& Emergency**
**Preparedness**
**(NS/EP)**

**NRP**
**(Dec 2004)**

## Department of Homeland Security

**Under Secretary Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection**** **

**Under Secretary Emergency Preparedness and Response**

**Secretary**
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**Deputy Secretary**

**Under Secretary**
**Science and Technology**

**Under Secretary**
**Border  & Transportation Security**

**Under Secretary**
**Management**

**Inspector General**

**Director of the**
**Secret Service  (1)**

**Commandant of**
**Coast Guard  (1)**

**Director, Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (1)**

**General Counsel**

**State and Local Coordination**

**Special Assistant to the Secretary**
**(private sector)**

**National Capital Region Coordination**

**Shared Services**

**Citizenship &  Immigration Service**
**Ombudsman  (1)**

**Legislative Affairs**

**Public Affairs**

**Civil Rights and **
**Civil Liberties**

**Chief of Staff**

**Privacy Officer**

**Executive Secretary**

**International Affairs**

**Counter Narcotics**

**Small & Disadvantaged **
**Business**

***Note (1):  Effective March 1******st******, 2003***

**Department of Homeland Security**

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## Infrastructure Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Division 

- Undersecretary
- Information Analysis
-  and
-  Infrastructure Protection (IAIP)

- Office of the
-  Chief of Staff
- COS

- Competitive Analysis & Evaluation (CAED) Director

- IAIP Business Office Director

- Information Analysis (IA) Asst Sec (ASIA)

- Homeland Security Operations Center (HSOC)
-  Director

- Infrastructure Protection (IP)
- Asst Sec (ASIP)

- Chief of Staff
-  ASIA COS

- Risk Assessment
- Division (RAD)
- Director

- Information Management Requirements
-  Division (IMRD)
- Director

- Protection Services Division (PSD) Director

- Infrastructure Coordination Division (ICD) Director

**National Communications System (NCS)**
** ****Deputy Manager**

- Chief of Staff
- ASIP COS

- National Cyber Security Division (NCSD)
- Director

**Infrastructure Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Division**** **

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## Department of Homeland Security

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_**Legend**_
**                ****Direction **
**                     ****Coordination**
**                   ****Advisement**

**President**

**OMB**

**HSC**

**NSC**

**OSTP**

**Hon. Michael Chertoff**
**Secretary of**
**Homeland Security**

**Dr. Peter Fonash**
**Deputy Manager**
** **

**Mr. Robert Stephan**
**Assistant Secretary, IP**
**Manager, NCS**

**Office of the Manager**
**(OMNCS) Staff**

**Office of the Manager, **
**NCS**

**Industry **
**Arm**

**Government Arm**

**National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC):**
**Bell South (Chair)**
**Lucent (Vice Chair)**
**Unisys****	****Boeing**
**Microsoft****	****SBC**
**Qwest****	****AT&T**
**SAIC****	****CTIA**
**EDS****	****Sprint**
**USTA****	****AMD**
**MCI****	****CSC**
**Verisign****	****Motorola**
**Verizon****	****Teledesic**
**Nortel ****	****Raytheon**
**Rockwell International PANAMSAT**
**Northrop Gruman**
**Bank of America**
**Lockheed Martin**

**Committee of Principals:**
**  ****CIA **
**  ****DHS**
**  ****DHHS**
**  ****DOC **
**  ****DOD**
**  ****DOE**
**  ****DOI**
**  ****DOJ**
**  ****DOS**
**  ****DOT**
**  ****FRB**
**  ****FCC**

**GSA**
**FEMA**
**Joint Staff**
**NASA**
**NRC**
**NSA**
**NTIA**
**TREAS**
**USDA**
**USPS**
**VA**

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## Office of the Manager, NCS

-  Conduct the daily business of the NCS
-  Develop & Manage NS/EP Telecom programs
-  Support the National Response Plan
-  Lead Agency for ESF#2 (Communications)

**Office of the Manager, NCS**

-   Coordinates communications response during
-     emergencies

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## NCS Support to the National  Response Plan

**Emergency Support Function #2**
**(Communications)**

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## Emergency Support Functions and Primary Agencies for Each ESF

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| #1  Transportation  
Department of Transportation | #6  Mass Care, Housing, and Human Services
American Red Cross and Federal Emergency Management Agency | # 11  Agriculture and Natural  Resources
Department of Agriculture/Food and Nutrition Service |
| --- | --- | --- |
| #2  Communications
National Communications                System     | #7  Resource Support
General Services Administration | #12  Energy
Department of Energy |
| #3  Public Works and Engineering
Department of Defense/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | #8  Public Health and Medical Services 
Department of Health and                     Human Services | #13  Public Safety and Security 
Department of Justice |
| #4  Firefighting
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service | #9  Urban Search and Rescue
Federal Emergency Management Agency | #14  Community Recovery, Mitigation and Economic Stabilization
Federal Emergency Management  Agency |
| #5  Emergency Management
Federal Emergency Management Agency | #10  Oil and Hazardous Materials  
Environmental Protection Agency | #15  Emergency and Public Information and External Communications
DHS – Federal Emergency Management Agency |

## National Response Plan: ESF #2 Responsibilities

**National Response Plan: ESF #2 Responsibilities**

- _MISSION_
-   Provision Federal communications support to Federal, State, and local response efforts following a federally declared major disaster, emergency, or extraordinary situation under the National Response Plan
- _NATIONAL FOCUS_
- National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications (NCC)
- Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMA)
- Telecom Programs (GETS, TSP, WPS, SHARES)
- FEMA National Resource Coordination Center (NRCC)
- _REGIONAL FOCUS_
- National Communications System Regional Manager (NCSRM)
- Federal Emergency Communications Coordinator (FECC)
- Joint Field Office (JFO)

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## National Coordinating Center (NCC) 

**for Telecommunications**

**National  Level Support**

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## NCC Mission

- Industry Resources

- Government Resources

- Coordinated NS/EP Responses

- (NS/EP) Requirements

**To assist in the initiation, coordination, restoration, and reconstitution of NS/EP communications services or facilities under all conditions, crises, or emergencies**

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## National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications (NCC) Mission

**National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications (NCC) Mission**

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## NCC Day-to-Day Operations

- Coordinate Government/Industry NS/EP activities
- Maintain 24X7 Watch Center
- Network Monitoring/Abnormal conditions reporting
- Major service disruptions/outages affecting NS/EP
- Network component failures
- Events with significant media attention
- Advocate NS/EP issues
- Advise executives and senior officials

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## NCC Actions As Threat Levels Change

- The NCC will
-  Notify Key Personnel of threat
-    level changes
-  Collect information from industry
-    relative to response/preparedness
-    actions
-  Provide instructions to support
-    personnel as required

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## National Response Plan: ESF #2 Responsibilities

**National Response Plan: ESF #2 Responsibilities**

- _MISSION_
-   Provision Federal communications support to Federal, State, and local response efforts following a federally declared major disaster, emergency, or extraordinary situation under the National Response Plan
- _NATIONAL FOCUS_
- National Coordinating Center for Telecommunications (NCC)
- Individual Mobilization Augmentees (IMA)
- Telecom Programs (GETS, TSP, WPS, SHARES)
- FEMA National Resource Coordination Center (NRCC)
- _REGIONAL FOCUS_
- National Communications System Regional Manager (NCSRM)
- Federal Emergency Communications Coordinator (FECC)
- Joint Field Office (JFO)

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## National Communications System Regional Manager

**Regional  Level Support**

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## Regional ESF #2 Mission Statement

- ESF #2 (Communications) ensures the provision of the Federal communication support to the State and Local response efforts following a presidentially declared major disaster, emergency, or extraordinary situation under the _National Response Plan_ (NRP)
- ESF #2 (Communications) supplements the provisions of the _National Plan for Telecommunications Support in Non-Wartime Emergencies_

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## Federal Region I

**Federal Region I**

**NCS Regional Managers:**

**Peter Dauderis (Primary)**
**John Ahern      (Alternate)**

**Connecticut**
**Maine**
**Massachusetts**
**New Hampshire**
**Rhode Island**
**Vermont**

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## NCS Regional Manager

- Federal Emergency Communications Coordinator (FECC)
- Primary Federal Coordinator for all communications requirements
- Evaluates status of communications in the disaster area
- Coordinates use of communications assets supporting the disaster response
- Approves, prioritizes, and manages Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) requests as directed by the Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO)
- Serves as Chief of the Emergency Communications Staff

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## ESF #2 Regional Organization

**Federal**
**Coordinating**
**Officer (FCO)**

**Operations Section**
**- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -**
**Infrastructure Support Branch**

**Frequency**
**Manager**

**State**
**Liaison**

**FECC**

**FEMA**

**Other Support**
**Agencies**

**NCS Staff**

**ESF #2 Support**
**Agencies**

**Telecom**
**Industry**

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## Other Support Agencies

**ESF #2 Support Agencies**

**Department of Commerce**

**USDA, U.S. Forest Service**

**Department of Defense**

**Federal Communications **
**Commission**

**DHS/EPR/FEMA**

**General Services Administration **

**Department of Energy**

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**Department of the Interior**

**DHS/IAIP/NCSD**

## ESF #2 Emergency Response Operations

- Arlington, VA

- FEMA HQ
- Washington, D.C.

- NCC Rep to the National Resource Coordination Center (NRCC)

- Joint Field Office (JFO)

- Federal Emergency Communications Coordinator (FECC)

**ESF #2 Emergency Response Operations**

- FEMA

- Mt. Weather, VA

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## Spectrum of Threats

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## NCS Support for Emergencies

**FOREST FIRES**
- West & S.W. States			2002-03
- Florida	  			Jul 98

**MAN-MADE INCIDENTS & SPECIAL EVENTS**
- National Political Conventions              Jul/Aug 04
- Wide Area Blackout			  Aug 03
- Winter Olympics	    		  Feb 02
- “9/11” Terrorist Attacks		  Sep 01
- Summer Olympics       		    Jul 96
- Oklahoma City Bombing  		   Apr 95

**WEATHER**
- Hurricanes:
-  Jeanne, Ivan, Frances	Sep 04
- Hurricane Charley		Aug 04
- Hurricane Isabel		Sep 03
- Mid-West Tornados		Spring 03
- Typhoon Ponsonga		Dec 02
- Tropical Storm Allison	Jun 01
- Hurricane Floyd		Sep 98
- Hurricane Georges		Sep 98
- Hurricane Bonnie		Aug 98
- N.E. Ice Storms		Jan 98
- Hurricane Fran		Sep 96

**EARTHQUAKES**
- Seattle, Washington			Feb 01
- Northridge, California		Jan 94

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## ESF #2 Lessons Learned

- FECC is the single POC for all federal communications
-      support in disaster area
- Early activation of ESF #2 is critical
- Communications support requests must be centrally coordinated, prioritized, and managed
- Have visibility and status of all communications assets in
-      disaster area
- Close and continuous liaison between FECC/ECS and FEMA is required
- Plan for alternative and redundant communications means,
-      especially for initial responders

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