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U.S. Department of Energy ORDER
Washington, D.C. DOE O 150.1
Approved: 5-8-08
SUBJECT: CONTINUITY PROGRAMS
1. OBJECTIVES.
a. Continuity planning as required by the following.
(1) National Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD
51)/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20
(HSPD 20), National Continuity Policy, dated,
5-9-07;
(2) Executive Order 12656, Assignment of Emergency
Preparedness Responsibilities, dated, 11-18-88, as
amended; and
(3) Executive Order 12472, Assignment of National
Security and Emergency Preparedness
Telecommunications Functions, dated, 4-3-84, as
amended.
b. NSPD 51/HSPD 20 establishes a comprehensive national
policy on the continuity of Federal Government
structures and operations and a single National
Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the
development and implementation of Federal continuity
policies. The policy also establishes National
Essential Functions (NEFs), and prescribes continuity
requirements for all executive departments and
agencies. NSPD 51/HSPD 20 also provides guidance for
State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and
private sector organizations in order to ensure a
comprehensive and integrated national continuity
program that will enhance the credibility of our
national security posture and enable a more rapid and
effective response to and recovery from a national
emergency.
(1) Continuity of Government (COG): A coordinated
effort within each branch of government (e.g., the
Federal government’s executive branch) to ensure
that NEFs continue to be performed during a
catastrophic emergency.
(2) Continuity of Operations (COOP): An effort within
individual organizations (e.g., Federal executive
branch departments and agencies) to ensure that
Mission Essential Functions (MEFs) continue to be
performed during a wide range of emergencies,
including localized acts of nature, accidents,
technological, or attack-related emergencies.
c. The objectives of this Order are:
(1) to assign and describe roles and responsibilities
for the Department of Energy (DOE) Continuity
Program;
(2) to establish requirements for planning,
preparedness, response, and reconstitution
activities of the Continuity Program; and
(3) to ensure that the Department is ready to respond
promptly, efficiently, and effectively to a
continuity event involving DOE/NNSA facilities,
activities, or operations.
2. CANCELLATION. None.
3. APPLICABILITY.
a. Departmental Elements.
Except for the exclusions in paragraph 3c below, this
Order applies to all Departmental elements; including
elements created after this Order is issued (Go to
www.directives.doe.gov/pdfs/reftools/org-list.pdf for a
current listing of Departmental elements).
The Administrator of National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA) will assure NNSA employees comply
with their respective responsibilities under this
Order. Nothing in this Order will be construed to
interfere with the NNSA Administrator’s authority under
section 3212(d) of Public Law (P.L.) 106-65 to
establish Administration specific policies, unless
disapproved by the Secretary.
b. DOE Contractors.
Except for the exclusions listed in paragraph 3c, the
Contractor Requirements Document (CRD), Attachment 1,
applies to the extent set forth in each contract
requiring or involving responsibility for work or
operations at DOE sites or facilities that support or
perform Departmental MEFs or Primary Mission Essential
Functions (PMEFs). These functions are described in
Attachment 2.
c. Exclusions.
(1) In accordance with the responsibilities and
authorities assigned by Executive Order 12344 and
to ensure consistency throughout the joint Navy
and DOE organization of the Naval Nuclear
Propulsion Program, the Deputy Administrator for
Naval Reactors will implement and oversee all
requirements and practices pertaining to this DOE
Order for activities under the Deputy
Administrator’s cognizance.
(2) In accordance with the statutory responsibilities
and regulatory requirements assigned to Bonneville
Power Administration, they are exempt from
compliance of this order as long as they have
developed and implemented a comprehensive and
integrated Business Resilience Program that
encompasses this Order.
(3) Requests for exemptions must be approved or denied
by program Secretarial Officers (if applicable)
and the Director, Office of Emergency Operations,
with conflicts resolved by the Deputy Secretary or
designated Departmental Chief Operating Officer.
Requests for exemptions must be submitted from the
cognizant field element manager to the appropriate
program Secretarial Officers and the Director,
Office of Emergency Operations.
4. REQUIREMENTS. See Chapters I and II.
5. RESPONSIBILITIES. See Chapter III.
6. DEFINITIONS. See Attachment 3.
7. REFERENCES.
a. P.L. 106-65 The National Nuclear Security
Administration Act, as amended.
b. P.L. 80-253, The National Security Act of 1947, as
amended.
c. Title 5, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 550,
Subpart A, Premium Pay, and Subpart D, Payments during
Evacuation.
d. 36 CFR 1236, Management of Vital Records, as amended.
e. 41 CFR 102-74.230, Occupant Emergency Program, as
amended.
f. Executive Order 12148, Federal Emergency Management,
dated 7-20-79, as amended.
g. Executive Order 12472, Assignment of National Security
and Emergency Preparedness Telecommunications
Functions, dated 4-3-84, as amended.
h. Executive Order 12344, Naval Nuclear Propulsion
Program, dated 2-01-82, as amended.
i. Executive Order 12656, Assignment of Emergency
Preparedness Responsibilities, dated 11-18-88, as
amended.
j. HSPD 3, Homeland Security Advisory System, dated 3-11-
02.
k. HSPD 5, Management of Domestic Incidents, dated 2-28-
03.
l. HSPD 7, Critical Infrastructure Identification,
Prioritization, and Protection, dated 12-17-03.
m. HSPD 8, National Preparedness, dated 12-17-03.
n. HSPD 20/NSPD 51, National Continuity Policy, dated 5-09-
07.
o. National Security Directive 42, National Policy for the
Security of National Security Telecommunications and
Information Systems, dated 7-05-90.
p. National Response Framework, dated March 2008.
q. National Communications System Directive 3-10, Minimum
Requirements for Continuity Communications
Capabilities, dated 7-25-07.
r. Memorandum from Frances Fragos Townsend, Assistant to
the President for Homeland Security, “Continuity
Policy/Department and Agency Essential Functions,”
dated 1-10-05.
s. Memorandum from Joshua B. Bolten, Director, Office of
Management and Budget, “Regulation on Maintaining
Telecommunications Services during a Crisis or
Emergency in Federally Owned Buildings,” dated 6-30-05.
t. DOE O 151.1C, Comprehensive Emergency Management
System, dated 11-02-05.
u. DOE O 243.2, Vital Records, dated 2-2-06, which
establishes Department-wide requirements, roles and
responsibilities for implementing and maintaining a
Vital Records program, as required by the Federal
Records Act, as amended.
v. DOE O 322.1B, Pay and Leave Administration and Hours of
Duty, dated 1-14-05, which establishes requirements and
responsibilities for the management of pay, including
overtime and compensatory time, leave administration,
and hours of duty, as amended.
w. DOE Order 414.1C, Quality Assurance, dated 6-17-05, as
amended.
x. DOE O 470.4A, Safeguards and Security Program, dated
5-25-07, which establishes responsibilities for the DOE
Safeguards and Security Program and the managerial
framework for implementing DOE Policy 470.1, Integrated
Safeguards and Security Management, dated 5-08-01.
y. DOE M 470.4-1, Safeguards and Security Program Planning
and Management, dated 8-26-05, which establishes
program planning and management requirements for the
Department’s Safeguards and Security Program, as
amended.
z. DOE O 475.1, Counterintelligence Program, dated 12-10-
04, establishes the Counterintelligence Program
requirements and responsibilities for DOE, including
NNSA, as amended.
aa. Department of Energy Organization Act, 42 U.S.C.
7132(a).
8. IMPLEMENTATION.
a. Full compliance with this Order and any changes made to
this Order must be accomplished within one year of
issuance.
b. If compliance cannot be accomplished within one year,
an implementation schedule must be developed and
submitted to the Director, Office of Emergency
c. Operations through the appropriate program Secretarial
Officer or staff office director.
9. NECESSITY. In compliance with Sec. 3174 of P.L. 104-201 (50
U.S.C. 2584 note), DOE hereby finds that this Order is
necessary for the protection of human health and the
environment or safety, fulfillment of current legal
requirements, or conduct of critical administrative
functions.
10. CONTACT. For assistance regarding this directive, contact
the Continuity Program Manager at 301-903-5886.
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY:
JEFFREY F. KUPFER
Acting Deputy Secretary
CHAPTER I
CONTINUITY PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
1. GENERAL.
a. A Departmental Continuity Program comprised of COG
and COOP Programs must be established to:
(1) ensure the Department can continue to support
National Essential Functions (NEFs) (See
Attachment 2);
(2) ensure the Department can continue to perform
Mission Essential Functions (MEFs), Primary
Mission Essential Functions (PMEFs), and
Essential Supporting Activities (ESAs) (See
Attachment 2);
(3) ensure readiness by addressing at a minimum,
the basics of continuity planning (e.g.,
determination of MEFs, PMEFs, ESAs, order of
succession, delegation of authority,
communication requirements, human capital,
and vital records);
(4) ensure that the requirements established in
NSPD 51/HSPD 20, Executive Order 12656,
Assignment of Emergency Preparedness
Responsibilities, and the program elements
specified in Federal Continuity Directives
are addressed; and
(5) address preparedness and response to epidemic
and pandemic events.
b. This Order is not intended to require new or
redundant programs when the requirements of this
Order can be satisfied through or integrated with
existing emergency management programs.
c. The requirements of this Order should be
coordinated with the requirements of a
comprehensive emergency management system, which
defines the requirements for planning, preparing,
and responding to DOE operational emergencies.
2. CONTINUITY PROGRAM COMPONENTS.
a. COG is a coordinated effort within the executive
branch to ensure NEFs continue to be performed
during a catastrophic emergency. COG is dependent
on the effective implementation of a COOP Program.
b. COOP.
(1) Management.
(a) The Department must develop and implement a
Departmental COOP Program. The DOE COOP
Program must be documented in an overarching
DOE COOP Plan.
(b) Each program office and staff office must
assess COOP management needs to plan and
implement a COOP Program commensurate with
Departmental MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs. Each COOP
Program must document and address the basics
of continuity planning (e.g., essential
functions and activities, order of
succession, delegation of authority,
communication requirements, human capital,
and vital records) in a COOP Implementation
Plan that also addresses epidemic and
pandemic events.
(2) Field Programs.
(a) Each field element must plan and implement a
field COOP Program. The field element COOP
Program must be commensurate with the field
element’s role in supporting the execution of
Departmental MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs. In
addition, the field element must address
commitments made to DOE program offices and
staff offices, with regards to providing
alternate work locations, devolution sites,
and performance of MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs to
support the DOE COOP Program, as required.
(b) Each field element must document and address
basic continuity planning (e.g., essential
functions and activities, order of
succession, delegation of authority,
communication requirements, human capital,
and vital records) in a field COOP Plan that
also addresses epidemic and pandemic events.
(c) Field COOP Programs and Plans must be
coordinated with the DOE COOP Plan, the
relevant program office or staff office
Implementation Plan, appropriate field
element, Emergency Management Plan, and
contractor’s Continuity Programs, as
applicable.
(3) Capabilities. COOP Programs must be developed with
the following capabilities:
(a) Implement with and without warning;
(b) Perform PMEFs as soon as possible after the
occurrence of the continuity event, but no
later than 12 hours after COOP activation;
(c) Sustain COOP operations for up to 30 days;
and
(d) Sustain COOP operations for up to 60 days
during an epidemic or pandemic continuity
event.
c. Responsibilities must be established in accordance with
Chapter III of this Order.
3. PLANNING PHASE.
a. COOP Planning must:
(1) provide for deferring nonessential functions until
additional resources become available and as the
situation permits;
(2) outline a decision process for determining
appropriate actions in implementing COOP plans and
procedures including continuity of operations
condition (COOP COGCON) changes;
(3) consider reduced or mitigated disruptions to
operations;
(4) address procedures for the orientation of COOP
personnel and for conducting operations and
administrations at alternate operating facilities;
(5) provide for coordination with non-COOP personnel,
including teleworking personnel;
(6) provide for implementation of plans addressing
epidemic and pandemic threats to DOE facilities;
and
(7) provide for the reconstitution of agency
capabilities and the transition from a continuity
event to normal operations.
b. Mission Essential Functions (MEFs), Primary Mission
Essential Functions (PMEFs), and Essential Supporting
Activities (ESAs). MEFs, PMEFs, ESAs and the resources
needed to accomplish and sustain the functions and
activities during a continuity event must be
identified. See attachment #2.
(1) MEFs are the limited set of Department-level
government functions that must be continued
throughout or resumed rapidly after a disruption
of normal activities. PMEFs are a subset of MEFs
that must be performed in order to support or
implement the performance of NEFs before, during
and in the aftermath of a continuity event. MEFs
must be prioritized based on the criticality and
recovery-time objective of the function. Recovery-
time objective is the pre-determined time frame a
function must be resumed following a continuity
event.
(a) The DOE Continuity Program Manager must
identify the Departmental MEFs and PMEFs.
(b) PMEFs must be continued with minimal
disruption or resumed within 12 hours of COOP
activation and maintained for up to 30 days,
or until normal operations can be resumed.
(c) All MEFs must be resumed within 30 days of
COOP activation.
(d) Consider a recovery-time objective of 60 days
to accomplish MEFs for epidemic and pandemic
event planning.
(2) ESAs are specific activities performed to allow
DOE to accomplish its MEFs and PMEFs. The
Continuity Program Manager must identify the
Departmental ESAs.
(3) Program office, staff office, and field element
essential functions/activities.
(a) Each DOE organization (program office, staff
office or field element) must identify their
MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs for which the office is
responsible for or provides support.
(b) Specific office essential functions,
resources, and vital records needed to
perform the MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs must be
identified as the office’s essential
functions and activities.
(4) COOP personnel that perform the essential
functions/activities for each program office,
staff office and field elements must be
identified. Those identified will be members of
the Continuity Emergency Response Group (CERG).
CERG members must have the authority to perform
organizational essential functions and activities.
(5) CERG members must be trained and properly equipped
by their respective program office or staff
office.
(6) Provisions for the acquisition of necessary
resources for continuity operations must be made.
c. Planning Requirements. COOP Programs must provide for
integrated planning that at minimum addresses the
following.
(1) Delegation of Authority.
(a) Program offices, staff offices, and field
elements must establish predetermined
delegations of authority for making policy
decisions when normal channels of direction
are disrupted.
(b) Delegations of authority must include clear
descriptions of the circumstances under which
the delegated authorities would take effect
and any limits to the authorities delegated.
(2) Orders of Succession. Establish succession to
office with accompanying authorities in the event
a disruption renders departmental leadership
unable, unavailable, or incapable of assuming and
discharging their duties and responsibilities of
office.
(a) The DOE Secretarial Order of Succession must
be established pursuant to section 202(a) of
the Department of Energy Organization Act, 42
U.S.C. 7132(a).
(b) Program offices, staff offices, and field
elements must establish orders of succession
for key positions within their organizations
to ensure support of the Secretary and the
execution of MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs when
necessary.
(c) Succession orders must include position or
title, a description of conditions under
which succession will take place, method of
notification, and any limitations of
authority.
(3) Alternate Operating Facilities.
(a) Alternate operating facilities used for
performing MEFs, PMEFs, and/or ESAs with
minimal disruption of operations must be
identified, prepared, and maintained.
(b) Field elements must take maximum advantage of
existing infrastructures and consider whether
the field element’s essential functions and
activities can be executed from DOE
Headquarters or another DOE field element
during a continuity disruption.
(c) An all-hazard risk assessment must be
conducted for use in the selection and
planning of alternate operating facilities.
1 The following factors must be considered
during the selection phase: Geographic
location; power; telecommunications and
internet grid services availability;
health, safety, security and emotional
well-being of relocated employees; and
the distance from hazardous areas or
facilities.
2 Hazard and risk assessments performed
for other DOE requirements may be used.
(d) Alternate operating facilities must:
1 provide sufficient space and equipment
to sustain relocation operations for 30
days;
2 be selected with the capability of
sustaining operations for 60 days for
epidemic or pandemic events;
3 provide safety and security for
personnel and operations;
4 provide reliable logistical support,
services, infrastructure systems, and
emergency power;
5 be equipped to perform PMEFs within
12 hours of activation and until normal
business activities can be
reconstituted;
6 provide interoperable communications and
means for secure communications if
needed; and
7 provide necessary computer equipment,
software, and automated data processing
equipment.
(e) DOE/NNSA Headquarters alternate operating
facilities must be reported to the General
Services Administration (GSA) on form SF-336,
“GSA Alternate Reporting Form.”
(f) Telework options should be considered when
appropriate. Telework facilities do not have
to meet requirements established in (3) (c)
through (3) (e) above.
(4) Interoperable Communications. See Chapter II.
(5) Vital Records.
(a) A vital records program must be established
in accordance with DOE O 243.2.
(b) Records that are vital to accomplishing
PMEFs, MEFs, and ESAs must be identified and
available.
(c) Duplicate records or back-up electronic files
must be prepositioned or otherwise available
at an alternate operating facility.
(d) Program offices, staff offices, and field
elements must account for the identification
and protection of vital records, systems,
data management software and equipment. These
vital records will include classified and/or
other sensitive data, as applicable,
necessary to perform MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs,
and to reconstitute normal operations after
the continuity event.
(6) Human Capital.
(a) COOP human capital planning encompasses the
Federal and Departmental policies regarding
employees in an emergency situation and
follows requirements of 5 CFR Part 550,
Subparts A and D and DOE O 322.1B, Pay and
Leave Administration and Hours of Duty.
(b) In addition to Federal and Departmental
policies, COOP human capital planning must
consider staffing needs during continuity
events (including epidemic and pandemic),
designation of CERG members, status of
non-emergency employees, communication with
employees, staffing flexibility, pay and
leave flexibility, work schedules, dismissal
and closure policies, use of alternative
worksites, and telework policies.
(c) Methods of notifying and communicating with
employees about COOP issues must be
developed.
(d) A corporate accountability system must be
developed for DOE HQ federal employees and
contractors to be used during a continuity
event. Each program office, staff office, and
field element must establish a personnel
accountability program to document the
location, contact information, and well-being
of all personnel during a continuity event.
(e) Employees who are identified as CERG members,
must have a designee letter and appropriate
telework agreement.
4. PREPAREDNESS PHASE.
a. Training, Testing, and Exercises.
(1) A COOP training, testing, and exercise program
must be developed and implemented to assess,
demonstrate, and improve the Department’s ability
to respond to a continuity event. The COOP
training, testing, and exercise program may be
integrated with other test, training, and exercise
programs.
(2) A multi-year training, testing, and exercise plan,
along with a planning calendar addressing exercise
requirements and resources to support these
activities, must be developed and implemented.
(3) Training.
(a) Training familiarizes continuity support team
members with plans, procedures, and tasks to
be performed during a continuity event.
(b) An annual COOP awareness briefing must be
conducted for the DOE workforce. COOP
awareness briefings must include training on
COOP alert, notification, and deployment
procedures.
(c) Individual and team training of the CERG
members must be conducted annually and must:
1 familiarize CERG members with alert,
notification, and deployment procedures
and;
2 familiarize members with the skills
necessary to implement COOP plans and
carry out PMEFs, MEFs, communication
systems, and reconstitution.
(d) Drills can be used to reinforce training, and
they are not evaluated.
(e) Designated successors must receive annual
briefings on their responsibilities to carry
out emergency duties during a continuity
event.
(4) Testing.
(a) Tests serve to assess and validate specific
aspects of COOP plans, policies, procedures,
systems, and facilities used in response to a
continuity event.
(b) Testing of COOP alert and notification
procedures and systems must be conducted
quarterly.
(c) Contact numbers must be available at each
alternate operating facility to permit
communication among field elements, DOE/NNSA
Headquarters, Federal departments, and
agencies, and customers.
(d) Communications equipment at the operation
center and alternate operation centers must
be tested quarterly to ensure available
redundant communications sufficient to meet
continuity event requirements.
(e) Recovery of vital classified and unclassified
records, critical information systems,
services, and data must be tested annually.
(f) Primary and backup infrastructure systems and
services at the alternate operating
facilities must be tested annually.
(5) Exercises.
(a) Exercises serve to assess and validate the
integration and practicality of all aspects
of COOP plans, policies, procedures, systems,
and facilities used in response to a
continuity event.
(b) An annual formally documented continuity
exercise must be conducted. The exercise may
be part of a larger emergency management
exercise.
(c) The exercise must provide the opportunity for
CERG members to demonstrate familiarity with
COOP plans, the capability to perform MEFs,
PMEFs, and ESAs, and include a demonstration
of inter-and intra-agency communication
capabilities.
(d) A comprehensive debriefing must be conducted
after each exercise where participants
identify systemic weaknesses in plans and
procedures, and recommend revisions to the
COOP plans.
b. COOP training, testing, and exercises must be
documented and deficiencies identified. Exercises must
be documented in an after action report. Corrective
actions must be identified and tracked through a
corrective action system to completion, in accordance
with DOE Order 414.1C, Quality Assurance, dated 6-17-
05, as amended. All corrective actions for NNSA shall
be implemented in accordance with P.L. 106-65, The
National Nuclear Security Administration Act, as
amended.
5. RESPONSE PHASE.
a. Notification.
(1) A preplanned decision-making process affecting the
status of the Department in a continuity event
must be identified.
(2) The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Operations Center (FOC) makes the appropriate
Continuity of Government Readiness Condition
(COGCON) level notifications to the executive
branch departments and agencies. The COGCON levels
establish the required readiness level for the
Federal Government.
(3) Headquarters Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
Watch Office and the DOE Continuity Program
Manager serves as the principal points of contact
for receipt of continuity event notifications and
reports from the FOC.
(4) Depending on the situation, the DOE Continuity
Program Manager or designee, initiates internal
notifications per the DOE COOP Plan to
organizational leadership, COOP coordinators, the
field, and others as necessary to provide
direction relating to changes in COOP COGCON level
or COOP Plan activation.
(5) During a continuity event, the DOE Headquarters
EOC Watch Office serves as the focal point to
receive, coordinate, and disseminate information
as required.
(6) Notification of changes to COOP COGCON levels, a
continuity event and/or DOE COOP Plan activation
must be made as indicated in the DOE COOP Plan and
program office or staff office Implementation
Plans.
b. Activation and Relocation.
Once a decision is made to activate the DOE COOP Plan,
program offices and staff offices must implement their
COOP Plans as instructed in the notification. Field
elements affected by the event must implement their
COOP Plans as necessary to support DOE Headquarters.
The CERG provides leadership, performs MEFs, PMEFs, and
ESAs, and provides logistics and other support during a
continuity event.
(1) DOE Headquarters.
(a) A Headquarters CERG must be established for a
continuity event affecting DOE Headquarters.
(b) The Headquarters CERG is comprised of the
Continuity Emergency Management Team (CEMT)
and the Continuity Support Team (CST). Field
elements must provide support to the HQ CERG
when required.
(c) The Continuity Program Manager will activate
the HQ CEMT facility. The position of CEMT
Director will be filled by the Continuity
Program Manager or another senior manager
from the Office of Emergency Operations.
(d) The CEMT staffing, activation, mission,
functions, and responsibilities are described
in the DOE COOP Plan.
(e) Essential COOP personnel for each program
office and staff office comprise the CST. CST
members must be identified and trained.
(f) Response to a Headquarters continuity event
must be coordinated with the DOE Headquarters
Occupant Emergency Plan and the Headquarters
Emergency Management Team.
(2) Field Elements.
(a) Field elements must establish their own CERGs
for continuity events affecting their
facilities.
(b) The field element manager may activate a CERG
to oversee COOP operations at the appropriate
site.
(c) The field element manager ensures situational
reports are provided to the DOE Continuity
Program Manager via the DOE EOC Watch Office.
(d) The field element manager or designee will
communicate with state, local, territorial,
and tribal governments, the national media,
and the public.
(e) DOE Headquarters will communicate with
national leadership, other Federal agencies,
and national media.
(f) Field element COOP programs must work in
concert with the appropriate field emergency
management programs.
c. Devolution of Control and Direction.
(1) The Departmental COOP Program must address the
possibility that leadership and staff may be
unavailable or incapable of supporting the
execution of DOE MEFs, PMEFs, or ESAs from either
the primary or the alternate locations. Under such
circumstances, DOE leadership must transfer MEFs,
PMEFs, and ESAs to another geographical location.
(2) Headquarters devolution planning must address the
following subjects: Direction, control, and
necessary resources.
(3) Personnel with the authority to perform MEFs,
PMEFs, or ESAs must be identified at the
designated devolution site.
6. RECONSTITUTION.
a. The COOP Program must include planning for resumption
of normal operations or reconstitution once a threat or
disruption is over.
b. Pre-planning and coordinating options must include
movement from the alternate or devolution location to
the original operating facility or a new operating
facility if necessary. Procedures for a smooth
transition must be outlined.
c. A reconstitution plan must address procedures for
notifying personnel that resumption of normal
operations has commenced. The plan will ensure the
orderly return to the primary facility and include;
verifying all systems, communications, and other
required capabilities are available and operational.
d. The status of the DOE Headquarters relocation must be
reported to the FOC and other points-of-contact, as
necessary.
e. The status of the relocation of any DOE operations must
be reported to the DOE EOC Watch Office, the DOE
Continuity Program Manager, and other
points-of-contact, as necessary.
f. An after-action review of COOP operations and the
effectiveness of plans and procedures must be conducted
to identify areas for correction. Remedial action plans
must be developed as soon as possible after
reconstitution. Corrective actions must be tracked to
completion. All corrective actions for NNSA shall be
implemented in accordance with P.L. 106-65, The
National Nuclear Security Administration Act, as
amended.
7. READINESS ASSURANCE. Each DOE program office, staff office,
and field element must establish a Continuity Readiness
Assurance Program to ensure that MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs can
be performed during a continuity event. The Continuity
Readiness Assurance Program at the program office, staff
office, and field element level may be part of another
readiness assurance program. The Continuity Readiness
Assurance Program consists of the following components.
a. Assessments of COOP Programs. Each DOE program office,
staff office, and field element shall be responsible
for monitoring and/or ensuring completion of the
following issues within its own program office, staff
office or field element.
(1) Identify findings (i.e., strengths, improvements,
deficiencies) in continuity programs; training,
testing, and exercises; plans and procedures; and
provide assurance that capabilities are sufficient
to implement COOP plans.
(2) COOP assessment activities can include program and
exercise evaluations and performance indicator
tracking. Activities can be conducted with
emergency management readiness assurance
evaluation activities.
(3) A review of COOP Programs must be conducted once
every three years by an entity technically
qualified, knowledgeable in the areas to be
accessed, and not directly involved with the
development of that COOP Program.
(4) Program offices, staff offices, and field
elements, and contractor-operated facilities must
conduct annual self-assessments of their COOP
Program. Self-assessment results must be
documented in the Continuity Readiness Assurance
Report.
(5) COOP Program evaluations must be based on the
requirements in this Order.
(6) Each field element must evaluate the COOP program
at each site or facility under its supervision
annually. The field element must provide the
evaluation results to the appropriate program
office and the DOE Continuity Program Manager. The
evaluation results may be included with the
Continuity Readiness Assurance Report.
(7) Evaluations of the COOP Program may be combined
with other evaluation programs.
(8) Evaluation reports must be completed within 30
working days of completion of the assessment.
b. Improvements. Each DOE program office, staff office,
and field element must ensure appropriate and timely
improvements are made in response to needs identified
through coordinated COOP planning, resource allocation,
program assistance activities, evaluations, training,
drills, and exercises. All improvements for NNSA shall
be implemented in accordance with P.L. 106-65, The
National Nuclear Security Administration Act, as
amended.
(1) Corrective Actions. A Continuity Corrective Action
Program (CAP) must be developed and implemented to
assist in documenting, prioritizing, and
resourcing continuity issues identified during
training, testing, exercises, assessments, and
responses.
(a) Continuous improvement of the Continuity
Program results from implementation of
corrective actions from findings (areas for
improvements).
(b) Corrective Action Plans must be developed
within 30 working days of receipt of a final
report (training, testing, exercise, or
assessment).
(c) Corrective actions must be completed as soon
as possible.
(d) Corrective actions addressing revision of
procedures or training of personnel should be
completed before the next annual
self-assessment of the program.
(e) A verification and validation process must be
accomplished by someone independent of those
who performed the corrective action. The
process verifies the corrective action has
been completed and validates the effective
resolution of the original finding.
(2) Lessons Learned. The Continuity Readiness
Assurance Program must include a system for
incorporating and tracking lessons learned from
training, drills, and actual responses. Program
offices, staff offices, field elements, and
DOE/NNSA contractor-operated facilities must
participate in the DOE/NNSA Corporate Lessons
Learned Program. DOE-STD-7501-99, The DOE
Corporate Lessons Learned Program, provides
guidance on the use of the system.
c. Continuity Readiness Assurance Report. The Continuity
Readiness Assurance Report documents the readiness of
the continuity program based on planning and
preparedness activities and the results of the
assessment, including evaluations and improvements. The
report is a planning tool to identify and develop
needed resources and improvements, and to highlight
changes and achievements in the program. More
specifically, the report must identify what the goals
were for the fiscal year that ended, and the degree to
which these goals were accomplished. This report must
also identify the goals for the next fiscal year.
(1) Program offices and field elements may submit
Continuity Readiness Assurance Reports as
appendices to Emergency Readiness Assurance Plans
(ERAPs), if applicable.
(2) Field elements must provide copies of Continuity
Readiness Assurance Reports to their appropriate
program office.
(3) Continuity Readiness Assurance Reports must be
provided to the Director, Office of Emergency
Operations by November 30 of each year.
(4) The Continuity Program Manager must submit an
annual status report that summarizes continuity
readiness assurance to the Deputy Secretary by
April 30 of each year.
8. PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION.
a. Personnel Requirements.
(1) Each DOE/NNSA program office or staff office
manager or administrator, along with a cognizant
field element manager and DOE/NNSA
contractor-operated site or facility subject to
this Order, must designate an individual to
administer the COOP Program.
(2) This individual must develop and maintain a COOP
Implementation Plan, field COOP Plan, and
Continuity Readiness Assurance Report as
appropriate.
b. COOP Plans.
(1) The DOE COOP Plan documents the overall DOE COOP
Program and addresses procedures to ensure the
Department’s ability to accomplish the
Departmental MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs during a
continuity event. The Plan:
(a) identifies Departmental MEFs, PMEFs, and
ESAs, and identifies procedures to ensure
MEFs and PMEFs are accomplished during a
continuity event;
(b) addresses Orders of Succession and Delegation
of Authority;
(c) identifies alternate operating facilities and
their capabilities;
(d) describes COOP notification and COOP Plan
activation procedures;
(e) outlines a decision process for determining
appropriate actions for implementing COOP
plans and procedures;
(f) identifies the devolution site and its
capabilities;
(g) addresses human capital issues;
(h) addresses Departmental response to epidemic
and pandemic events;
(i) describes the COOP Training, Testing, and
Exercise Program;
(j) addresses reconstitution planning; and
(k) addresses the DOE Continuity Readiness
Assurance Program.
(2) Each DOE program office or staff office must
develop a COOP Implementation Plan that details
the office’s COOP Program, responsibilities, and
procedures to support the DOE COOP Plan. COOP
Implementation Plans must define or reference
internal procedures necessary to ensure
accomplishment of MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs from
alternate operating locations. The COOP
Implementation Plan must:
(a) include COOP elements, as indicated in this
Order;
(b) identify the MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs the office
supports or is responsible for, and indicate
specific office essential
functions/activities that must be performed
to accomplish the MEFs, PMEFs, or ESAs;
(c) address internal procedures necessary to
ensure accomplishment of MEFs, PMEFs, and
ESAs during a continuity event;
(d) identify CERG members for their offices;
(e) identify implementing procedures that clearly
describe how COOP Plans must be implemented;
(f) include predetermined delegations of
authority for making policy determinations
and decisions that can take effect when
normal channels of direction are disrupted;
(g) establish orders of succession to key
positions within the organization;
(h) identify alternate operating facilities and
capabilities;
(i) identify vital records;
(j) identify methods for notification of and
communications with employees;
(k) establish a Personnel Accountability Program
for the office;
(l) planning for an epidemic/pandemic continuity
event;
(m) describe the training, testing, and exercise
program for the office; and
(n) describe the Office’s Continuity Readiness
Assurance Program.
(3) Each DOE/NNSA field element must develop a COOP
Plan to address the accomplishment of essential
functions and activities in a continuity event at
their location. Field element COOP Plans must also
address the element’s responsibilities to assist
and support DOE Headquarters in a continuity event
that forces relocation of Headquarters operations
to an alternate location. DOE field element COOP
Plans must include COOP elements as indicated in
this Order. Specifically, field COOP Plans must
include the following elements.
(a) Departmental MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs they are
responsible for or provide support to and
specific office essential
functions/activities;
(b) References to internal procedures to ensure
accomplishment of specific office essential
functions/activities from alternate operating
locations;
(c) References to internal procedures for
executing MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs that may be
transferred from DOE Headquarters;
(d) Planning for an epidemic/pandemic continuity
event;
(e) CERG members for the office;
(f) Predetermined delegations of authority for
policy determinations and decisions that can
take effect when normal channels of direction
are disrupted;
(g) Orders of succession to key positions within
the organization;
(h) Identification of an alternate operating
facility and its capabilities, as needed;
(i) Identification of vital records;
(j) Methods for notification of and
communications with employees;
(k) A Personnel Accountability Program for their
office;
(l) A training, testing, and exercise program for
their office; and
(m) A description of their Continuity Readiness
Assurance Program.
(4) The Continuity Readiness Assurance Program may be
part of another readiness assurance program.
d. Multi-Year Strategic Program Management Plan. The
Departmental Multi-Year Strategic Program Management
Plan must be developed to define the resources
necessary to develop and maintain a functional COOP
Program.
(a) The plan must include objectives, programs,
staffing, and budgetary requirements to
support viable Continuity Program capability.
(b) The plan must be updated and published
annually.
e. Classification Review. If the site/facility/activity
generates classified information, unclassified
controlled nuclear information (UCNI), or is conducting
operations that are classified or identified as UCNI,
then all COOP Plans, procedures, scenarios, and
assessments must be reviewed for classified information
and UCNI by an authorized derivative classifier or UCNI
reviewing official.
CHAPTER II
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS
1. GENERAL. Continuity events requiring evacuation of a primary
location, the relocation to alternate operating facilities,
and/or activation of communications at alternate operating
facilities may be reported to DOE Headquarters, employees
and the public. Communications requirements for continuity
events do not supplant other required notifications and
reporting delineated under legislation, implementing
regulations, and DOE Orders.
2. PLANNING PHASE.
a. For continuity events requiring evacuation of primary
work facilities and relocation to alternate operating
facilities, provisions must be established to permit
prompt initial notification of all affected workers,
DOE Headquarters, and other DOE/NNSA facilities.
b. Notifications can be accomplished by automated calling
systems, intra-office telephone trees or other
established methods.
c. DOE Headquarters and Albuquerque Service Center must
meet the minimum requirements for continuity
communications capabilities established in the National
Communications System Directive (NCSD) 3-10.
Communication capabilities identified in NCSD 3-10 and
available at the DOE Headquarters and Albuquerque
facilities will be tested and reported.
d. The communication capabilities of alternate operating
facilities must include:
(1) capabilities commensurate with the Departmental
MEFs and PMEFs;
(2) the ability to communicate with CERG members, DOE
employees, DOE leadership, and other Departmental
elements;
(3) the ability to communicate with the FOC, the
Homeland Security Operations Center, other Federal
agencies and their COOP sites, and critical
customers;
(4) redundant communication systems available for use,
as appropriate;
(5) the ability to access data systems and services,
the local area network, vital electronic records,
critical information systems and data, and
internal and external e-mail files, and archives
necessary to conduct MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs;
(6) communications and IT capabilities that are
operational as soon as possible following COOP
activation, but within 12 hours of notification;
and
(7) an office COOP Implementation Plan that describes
communication capabilities other than those
contained in the DOE COOP Plan.
e. A Disaster Recovery Plan must be developed to define
resources, actions, tasks, and data systems required to
manage the technology recovery effort for the
Department.
3. PREPAREDNESS PHASE.
a. See Chapter I for communication testing requirements.
b. Communications testing requirements will be in
accordance with NCSD 3-10.
4. RESPONSE PHASE.
a. DOE Headquarters EOC Watch Office staff receives
notifications of Headquarters or field element
continuity events and is responsible for disseminating
such information to the Director of Emergency
Operations and the Continuity Program Manager.
b. The Continuity Program Manager receives notifications
from the FOC regarding a continuity event and makes the
appropriate notifications.
c. Field elements must notify the EOC Watch Office of a
continuity event via phone call providing as much
information as is known at the time. Field elements
must immediately follow up this call with a
confirmation e-mail or fax (pending operable IT)
containing the same information. Both notifications
should include the following:
(1) The fact a continuity event has been declared;
(2) A description of the situation;
(3) The date and time the continuity event was
declared;
(4) Whether or not an alternate operating facility has
been activated;
(5) Information on damage and casualties;
(6) The status of other facility/site operations or
program activities; and
(7) Notifications that have been made.
d. All reports and releases must be reviewed for
classified information or UCNI by an authorized
derivative classifier or UCNI reviewing official prior
to being provided to uncleared personnel, entered into
unclassified databases, or transmitted using non-secure
communications equipment.
CHAPTER III
RESPONSIBILITIES
1. DEPUTY SECRETARY. The Deputy Secretary is responsible for:
a. serving as senior Departmental continuity management
policy official.
b. appointing a senior policy official to serve as the
Departmental Continuity Coordinator. The Departmental
Continuity Coordinator is the single point of contact
for program management responsibilities and authorities
as required by NSPD 51/HSPD 20.
c. ensuring the Department has continuity plans for a
national or localized continuity event and the ability
for continued performance of all PMEFs, MEFs, and other
essential functions.
d. approving the DOE COOP Plan.
2. ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
(NNSA). The Administrator, NNSA is responsible for:
a. ensuring the availability of the Albuquerque Service
Center (AL/SC) to serve as a devolution site.
b. ensuring that all site services and support will be
maintained in a state of readiness to support
relocating personnel.
3. ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR, OFFICE OF EMERGENCY OPERATIONS. The
Associate Administrator, Office of Emergency Operations is
responsible for:
a. issuing all policy, requirements, and guidance for the
Continuity Program.
b. appointing a Continuity Program Manager.
c. serving as budget and staffing advocate for the
continuity program.
d. ensuring that the COOP Program provides a comprehensive
and integrated approach to continuity planning,
preparedness, response, and reconstitution.
4. CONTINUITY PROGRAM MANAGER. The Continuity Program Manager
is responsible for:
a. managing day-to-day operation of the DOE Continuity
Program Office.
b. developing and maintaining the DOE multi-year strategy
and Program Management Plan.
c. coordinating all continuity intra- and
inter-Departmental commitments and exercise and
response activities.
d. developing and implementing a COG Program as delineated
in NSPD 51/HSPD 20.
e. managing all Departmental COG planning, preparedness,
training and exercises.
f. developing and implementing the Departmental COOP
Program.
(1) Documenting the COOP Program in the DOE COOP Plan.
(2) Performing a documented review of the plan
annually.
(3) Submitting substantive changes to the COOP Plan
for the Deputy Secretary’s approval, as deemed
necessary.
g. activating the CEMT facility and serving as CEMT
Director as necessary.
h. issuing all DOE/NNSA continuity policy, requirements,
and guidance.
i. representing the Department to the continuity community
and continuity working groups.
j. keeping all DOE program office, staff office, and field
element COOP coordinators apprised of DOE and
interagency continuity activities.
k. incorporating OMB guidance on continuity as provided
when developing the Department’s continuity budget.
l. ensuring the DOE COOP Plan and procedures are
coordinated with the individual responsible for the
Occupant Emergency Plan and the Director, Office of
Emergency Operations, who is responsible for Emergency
Management Policy.
m. ensuring the Order of Succession to the Secretary of
Energy is maintained up-to-date.
n. establishing Departmental MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs.
o. ensuring alternate operating facilities are established
as needed.
p. ensuring program office and staff office implementation
plans are established and maintained for the execution
of Departmental MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs.
q. activating the HQ Continuity Emergency Response Group.
r. establishing procedures for notifying and instructing
DOE Headquarters and field personnel when the DOE COOP
Plan is activated.
s. initiating internal notification to organizational
leadership, COOP coordinators, and others as necessary
to provide direction relating to changes in COOP COGCON
levels or COOP Plan activation.
t. testing DOE Headquarters Continuity Program’s automated
notification system quarterly.
u. planning for and making COOP awareness training
available for DOE personnel.
v. ensuring officials in the Order of Secretarial
Succession participate and are trained to carry out
their response duties during continuity exercises.
w. validating Headquarters COOP readiness through
regularly scheduled internal and interagency tests and
exercises.
x. providing up-to-date key continuity point-of-contact
information to the FEMA Operations Center.
y. ensuring that Departmental and field elements have
their COOP Programs reviewed once every three years by
an entity technically qualified, knowledgeable in the
areas to be accessed, and not directly involved with
the development of that COOP Program.
z. providing an annual status report to the Deputy
Secretary on Departmental COOP readiness assurance.
aa. establishing procedures for DOE Headquarters and
Albuquerque for compliance of NCSD 3-10.
5. DIRECTOR, DOE HEADQUARTERS/NNSA EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER
(EOC) WATCH OFFICE. The Director, DOE Headquarters/NNSA EOC
Watch Office is responsible for:
a. providing emergency operations support for COOP
planning, preparedness, and implementation.
b. ensuring the Headquarters communications equipment is
tested in accordance with NCSD 3-10.
c. establishing the Transportation and Emergency Control
Center (TECC) in Albuquerque, NM, as backup to the DOE
Headquarters Emergency Operations Center and Alternate
Operating Center (AOC), and training TECC duty
personnel to accomplish EOC tasks.
d. maintaining an AOC capable of assuming the duties of
the primary Headquarters EOC Watch Office in a
continuity event.
e. notifying the DOE Continuity Program Manager of
continuity events reported by FEMA or a DOE field
element.
6. PROGRAM SECRETARIAL OFFICER AND STAFF OFFICE DIRECTOR. Each
Program Secretarial Officer and Staff Office Director is
responsible for:
a. appointing a COOP coordinator and a backup to
administer COOP and serve as continuity points-of-
contact.
b. ensuring the COOP coordinator provides updated
personnel notification lists on a quarterly or as
necessary basis to the DOE Continuity Program Manager.
c. developing and implementing a COOP Program, as required
by chapters 1 & 2 of this Order.
d. ensuring the COOP plan addresses epidemic and pandemic
threats to DOE facilities and operations.
e. developing and implementing a COOP implementation plan.
f. annually reviewing, updating, and providing an
electronic copy of the implementation plan to the DOE
Continuity Program Manager.
g. ensuring implementation of COOP management policy and
requirements.
h. maintaining programs and systems consistent with policy
and requirements.
i. establishing a test and exercise program for all
applicable personnel.
j. ensuring budget submissions for facilities, activities,
and transportation functions are adequate for the
effective implementation and maintenance of COOP.
k. identifying office essential functions, resources, and
records for the DOE MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs they are
responsible for or required to support.
l. ensuring a system or program is established for issuing
and maintaining accountability of Government Emergency
Telecommunications Service (GETS) Cards issued to all
COOP responders, and providing the total number of
cards issued to the Continuity Program Manager.
m. establishing order for succession to key positions
within the organization.
n. establishing predetermined delegation of authority for
the office.
o. identifying and establishing local and remote alternate
operating facilities.
p. notifying the Continuity Program Office of significant
office changes that may impact space allocation in the
event of COOP Plan activation.
q. ensuring that within areas of programmatic
responsibility:
(1) a system or program is established and maintained
for 24-hour initial receipt and further
dissemination of continuity notifications;
(2) specialized technical representatives and subject
matter experts are provided when the CEMT is
convened;
(3) CERG members are officially identified;
(4) GETS cards are issued and tested by CERG members;
(5) a continuity training, testing, and exercise
program is established for their office, and
providing COOP awareness training;
(6) continuity training and response procedures are
adequate in field element programs;
(7) a system or program is established for maintaining
vital records that are accessible at COOP
facilities;
(8) access to vital classified and unclassified
records, critical information systems, services,
and data that must be tested at the alternate
operating facility semi-annually;
(9) COOP readiness assurance activities are performed;
and
(10) infrastructure and training is in place to enable
essential employees (including contractors) to
work from home or other alternate operating
facilities in a continuity event.
r. developing a plan with procedures and instructions
addressing epidemic and pandemic threats in
coordination with the Director, Office of Human Capital
Management and the Chief Health, Safety, and Security
Officer.
s. reviewing the fields’ COOP Plan(s) annually and
ensuring a copy is provided to the DOE Continuity
Program Manager.
7. PROGRAM SECRETARIAL OFFICERS. Program Secretarial Officers
are responsible for ensuring implementation of policy and
requirements for activities conducted by sites/facilities
and/or cognizant field elements under their authority,
including COOP self-assessments of their Continuity
Readiness Assurance Programs.
8. CHIEF HEALTH, SAFETY, AND SECURITY OFFICER (HSS). The Chief
HSS is responsible for:
a. conducting the security portion of the all-hazards risk
assessment of DOE’s primary and secondary Headquarters
operating facilities.
b. coordinating with the Office of Management on the
security portion of the all-hazards risk assessment of
DOE’s primary and secondary Headquarters operating
facilities.
c. updating the security portion of all-hazards risk
assessment bi-annually.
d. developing a plan with procedures and instructions
addressing epidemic and pandemic threats in
coordination with the Director, Office of Human Capital
Management.
9. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT. The Director,
Office Human Capital Management is responsible for:
a. developing a plan to provide the infrastructure and
training to enable DOE federal employees to work from
home or other alternate operating facilities during a
continuity event in coordination with the Chief
Information Officer.
b. providing guidance consistent with the Office of
Personnel Management regarding procedures and
instructions for federal employees in the event that an
epidemic or pandemic situation threatens one or more
DOE facilities in coordination with the Chief HSS.
c. providing a corporate system to account for DOE federal
employees and contractors after a continuity event of
DOE facilities and the unavailability of those
facilities for an extended time.
10. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT. The Director, Office of
Management is responsible for:
a. developing an internal plan for Headquarters operating
facility management to ensure availability of
infrastructure support (e.g., primary and backup power,
water, HVAC, decontamination).
b. ensuring consistency between the Headquarters Occupant
Emergency Plan and the DOE COOP Plan.
c. developing a standard operating procedure for use of
aviation and other transportation assets in the event
DOE leadership must be moved out of the Washington DC
area.
d. preparing an all-hazards risk assessment of DOE’s
primary and secondary Headquarters operating facilities
in coordination with the Chief HSSO. This risk
assessment must be updated annually.
11. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER (IM) AND
OTHER OFFICES NOT SUPPORTED BY IM. These entities are
responsible for:
a. developing a plan, in coordination with the Chief Human
Capital Officer to provide the infrastructure and
training to enable DOE Headquarters federal employees
to work from home or other alternate operating
facilities in a continuity event.
b. developing a Disaster Recovery Plan that defines the
resources, actions, tasks, and data required to manage
the technology recovery effort for the Department,
including the capability to recover vital records.
12. DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE.
The Director, Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
is responsible for participating in the quarterly testing of
interoperable communication systems to be used in a
continuity event (primary and alternate facilities), in
accordance with NCSD 3-10.
13. FIELD ELEMENT MANAGER. The degree of field element COOP
planning must be commensurate with that field element’s role
in supporting the execution of the Departmental MEFs and
PMEFs, and to the extent an event directly affecting the
field element would impact the continuity of Departmental
MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs. The field element manager is
responsible for:
a. ensuring the field element COOP Program is developed.
b. integrating the field element COOP Program with the
required emergency management program.
c. conducting annual field element COOP Program
self-assessments.
d. establishing order of succession to key positions to
ensure support to the Secretary and execution of MEFs,
PMEFs, and ESAs.
e. establishing predetermined delegation of authority for
making policy determinations that can take effect when
normal channels of direction are disrupted.
f. appointing a primary and a back-up COOP coordinator to
administer COOP and serve as the COOP points-of-contact
for the field element, and designating the COOP
coordinator to provide notification information to
their Lead Program Secretarial Office (LPSO) and the
DOE Continuity Program Manager.
g. identifying essential functions/activities, resources,
and records for the DOE MEFs, PMEFs, and ESAs for which
his/her office is responsible for or to which it
provides support.
h. developing and implementing a field element COOP Plan
that documents their COOP Program.
i. providing a copy of the approved plan(s) to the
appropriate program office and to the DOE Continuity
Program Manager.
j. ensuring epidemic and pandemic planning is integrated
with the development and maintenance of the field
element COOP Plans.
k. implementing COOP management policy and requirements
and maintaining programs and systems consistent with
policy and requirements.
l. coordinating with the program Secretarial Officers to
ensure resources for facilities and activities under
their cognizance are available to implement this Order.
m. notifying the DOE Headquarters EOC Watch Office as soon
as possible following the declaration of a continuity
event.
n. maintaining effective communication systems and
protocols with the Headquarters EOC. Specifically,
during continuity events that require relocation of
essential personnel and involving/affecting facilities.
o. developing a disaster recovery plan or procedure that
defines the resources, actions, tasks, and data
required to manage the technology recovery effort for
the Department, including the capability to recover
vital records.
p. identifying the CERG members, and ensuring GETS cards
are issued to and tested by CERG members.
q. ensuring field element personnel and contractors
participate in COOP training, testing, and exercises.
COOP awareness training is provided to all personnel,
and CERG members are provided office specific CERG
training.
r. establishing a Personnel Accountability Program to
document the location, contact information, and
well-being of all personnel during a continuity event.
s. implementing corrective actions from lessons learned
based on findings from relocations (exercise or real
world), evaluations, assessments, and appraisals.
Corrective actions should be included in the field
element corrective action program.
t. implementing, in coordination with the Director, Office
of Emergency Operations, and the program Secretarial
Officers, a Readiness Assurance Program, consisting of
evaluations, improvements, and Continuity Readiness
Assurance Reports.
u. ensuring appropriate measures of the effectiveness of
contractor site or facility continuity programs are
incorporated in contractual arrangements.
v. ensuring a system or program is established for issuing
and maintaining accountability of Government Emergency
Telecommunications Service (GETS) cards, and providing
total number of cards to the Continuity Program
Manager.
w. reviewing and approving Continuity Readiness Assurance
Reports covering facilities under his/her supervision;
submits reports to the Program Secretarial Officer and
the Director, Office of Emergency Operations.
x. ensuring COOP plans and procedures are prepared,
reviewed annually, and updated as necessary for all
facilities within his/her area of responsibility and
are integrated with the overall field element emergency
preparedness program.
y. possibly activating a CERG to oversee COOP operations
at the appropriate site.
z. ensuring situational reports are provided to the DOE
Continuity Program Manager via the DOE EOC Watch
Office.
aa. ensuring communications with state, tribal, and local
governments, the national media, and the public.
bb. field elements with contractors responsible for site or
facility operations and activities, participating in
the development of a comprehensive COOP Program that
integrates with other local emergency response
programs.
cc. notifying contracting officers of affected site or
facility management contracts to incorporate the CRD of
this Order into their contracts.
dd. approving written requests from the contractors at
sites with multiple facilities to place
facility-specific requirements from the CRD of this
Order on a site-contractor-level or organization (such
as a single, site-wide public information organization
rather than separate organizations at each facility).
The field element federal manager may also decide to
place facility-specific requirements on the field
element organization. Placing facility-specific
requirements on the field element or on a
site-contractor-level organization does not require an
exemption from this Order.
ee. providing the sites, facilities, and activities under
his/her contractor oversight responsibility with:
(1) direction to implement continuity management
policy and requirements;
(2) direction in COOP planning and preparedness
activities including the Departmental MEFs, PMEFs,
and ESAs that the contractor supports.
(3) support and assistance during COOP events; and
(4) support and assistance in resolving issues and
assessment of COOP Programs.
14. SITE/FACILITY MANAGERS. In addition to the responsibilities
listed in paragraph 13.aa., managers of government owned and
government operated facilities are responsible for:
a. developing, implementing, maintaining, and updating, as
necessary, a COOP Program consistent with Departmental
directives and standards of performance.
b. preparing and maintaining COOP Plans, procedures, and
technical resource capabilities that address training,
drills, exercises, outreach and coordination, and
applicable Federal statutes, state and local laws, DOE
Orders, and implementing regulations and guidance.
c. establishing and maintaining an internal assessment
program to ensure the readiness of COOP response
capabilities, including developing and conducting a
self-assessment program with a process to measure,
monitor, and evaluate line performance.
ATTACHMENT 1
CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT
DOE O 150.1, Continuity Programs
Regardless of who performs the work, the contractor is
responsible for complying with the requirements of this
contractor requirements document (CRD). The contractor is
responsible for flowing down the requirements of this CRD to
subcontractors at any tier to the extent necessary to ensure the
contractor’s compliance with the requirements.
1. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.
a. The contractor must develop implement, and update, as
necessary, a Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program
designed to:
(1) assist the Department in continuing to accomplish
Departmental mission essential functions (MEFs),
primary mission essential functions (PMEFs), and
essential supporting activities (ESAs), see
attachment #2;
(2) be integrated with the Emergency Management
Program;
(3) utilize existing emergency management programs to
meet the requirements of this CRD;
(4) develop and implement a COOP Implementation Plan
or Business Recovery Plan that documents the COOP
Program; and
(5) address preparedness and response to epidemic and
pandemic events.
b. Contractors with established Business Recovery Plans
which meet requirements of this CRD need not develop
separate COOP Plans.
c. Implementation of contractor Business Recovery Plans
may be directed by the DOE/NNSA field element with
contract oversight.
d. The COOP Implementation Plan or Business Recovery Plan
must be approved by the DOE field element.
2. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS. The contractor program must:
a. identify contractor/site-performed essential
functions/activities that support Departmental MEFs,
PMEFs, and ESAs as identified by the field element;
b. provide for planning to ensure the capability exists
for performance of identified essential
functions/activities;
c. provide for the planning and implementation of plans
that address epidemic and pandemic threats;
d. identify a primary and a back-up COOP coordinator to
administer the COOP Program and serve as the COOP
points-of-contact;
e. provide for internal procedures for executing MEFs,
PMEFs, and ESAs that have been devolved from DOE
Headquarters or field elements;
f. identify and train CERG members;
g. provide for predetermined delegations of authority for
policy determinations and decisions that can take
effect when normal channels of direction are disrupted;
h. provide for orders of succession to key positions
within the organization;
i. identify and provide alternate operating facilities
with capabilities for performing essential functions;
j. provide for necessary interoperable communications to
perform essential functions;
k. provide for notifications to DOE HQ and the field
element of a continuity event at the site;
l. identify vital records necessary to perform essential
functions/activities and ensure those vital records are
available at the alternate operating facility;
m. define methods of and provide capabilities for
notification of and communication with employees during
a continuity event;
n. establish a Personnel Accountability Program for use
during a continuity event;
o. provide a training, testing and exercise program to
ensure the office/site/contractor specific essential
functions/activities can be accomplished in a
continuity event;
p. conduct annual COOP awareness briefing for the
contractor workforce, and ensure COOP awareness
briefings include training on COOP alert, notification,
and deployment procedures;
q. provide for a Continuity Readiness Assurance Program,
including a COOP Corrective Action Program and a
Lessons Learned Program, and submit a Continuity
Readiness Assurance Report to the appropriate field
element and Headquarters program office. NOTE: The
Continuity Readiness Assurance Program may be part of
another Readiness Assurance Program and the report may
be submitted as part of the Emergency Readiness
Assurance Report; and
r. conduct annual self-assessment of COOP Plans.
ATTACHMENT 2. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Essential functions are the basis for continuity planning.
Performance of essential functions represents the primary goal of
the DOE Continuity of Operations Program. Essential Government
functions are those Government activities that must remain
uninterrupted or resumed rapidly following a disruption of normal
Department/Agency (D/A) business, even if the D/A’s primary
operating facilities or key personnel are not available.
Essential functions are necessary to lead and sustain the country
during a continuity event; exercise civil authority; maintain the
safety and well being of the general populace; provide vital
services, and sustain the industrial and economic base.
The National Essential Functions and DOE’s Mission Essential
Functions (MEF) are subject to change depending on respective
focus and mission changes. Please refer to the approved DOE
Continuity of Operation Plan for the most current Departmental
MEFs.
National Essential Functions (NEFs)
The Homeland Security Council has established eight National
Essential Functions (NEFs (NSPD-51/HSPD-20)) that represent those
efforts that will be the primary focus of the President and the
national leadership during and following a continuity event. NEFs
require the collective effort of many D/A working together to
carry out their individual and joint missions.
1. Ensuring the continued functioning of our form of government
under the Constitution, including the functioning of the
three separate branches of government.
2. Providing leadership visible to the Nation and the world and
maintaining the trust and confidence of the American people.
3. Defending the Constitution of the United States against all
enemies, foreign and domestic, and preventing or
interdicting attacks against the United States or its
people, property, or interests.
4. Maintaining and fostering effective relationships with
foreign nations.
5. Protecting against threats to the homeland and bringing to
justice perpetrators of crimes or attacks against the United
States or its people, property, or interests.
6. Providing rapid and effective response to and recovery from
the domestic consequences of an attack or other incident.
7. Protecting and stabilizing the Nation's economy and ensuring
public confidence in its financial systems.
8. Providing for critical Federal Government services that
address the national health, safety, and welfare needs of
the United States.
Department of Energy Mission Essential Functions (MEFs), Primary
Mission Essential Functions (PMEFs)
The Department of Energy has identified seven MEFs of which six
are PMEFs that are of top priority during a continuity event and
relate back to the NEFs. DOE must resume the PMEFs within 12
hours of a catastrophic event and be able to sustain these
functions for up to 30 days. The single Departmental MEF must be
resumed within 30 days of the event.
PMEFs/MEFs
• Maintain the safety and security of nuclear materials and
stewardship of the nation’s Nuclear Weapons Complex.
• Manage the status of the National Energy Infrastructure.
Respond to the National Response Plan, ESF #12.
• Quickly develop and deploy creative scientific and
engineering solutions to complex challenges using the
extensive DOE National Laboratory complex capabilities.
• Deploy DOE national response assets in accordance with
Federal emergency response plans and provide technical
expertise, information, and mitigation support regarding
nuclear and radiological weapons design and effects.
• Manage and respond to international nuclear and other
weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation issues.
• Conduct intelligence, counterintelligence, and threat
assessments of global nuclear weapon development,
nonproliferation, terrorist threats, and energy production
and consumption.
MEF
• Continue the cleanup of the environmental legacy of the
nation’s nuclear weapons program and government-sponsored
nuclear energy research. Establish a disposal site for the
nation’s commercial nuclear waste and defense atomic energy
activities.
Department of Energy Essential Supporting Activities (ESAs)
The Department’s ESAs are those functions and activities that
assist in the accomplishment of the Departments MEFs, PMEFs, or
the NEFs. The ESAs are not listed in priority order.
• Provide executive-level department command, control,
leadership, and management of Department’s program office,
staff office, support office, and field offices.
• Ensure the availability of information technology.
• Ensure the availability of communication systems.
• Provide security of DOE programs and facilities.
• Provide for the health, safety, security, and accountability
of human capital.
• Ensure adequate funding, procurement, and contracting
support is available for essential DOE activities during and
after a continuity event.
• Provide essential business services to the DOE Secretary and
program offices.
• Respond to DOE operational emergencies.
• Provide interface with the public, press, Congress, states,
tribal, locals, other Federal agencies, and international
governments during a continuity event.
ATTACHMENT 3. DEFINITIONS
1. Agencies—Federal executive branch departments, agencies, and
independent organizations.
2. Agency Head—the highest-ranking official of the primary
occupant agency or a successor or designee selected by the
official.
3. All-hazard Risk Assessment—a risk assessment performed on
sites/facilities that are being considered as alternate
operating facilities. The assessment analyzes the risks and
vulnerability of the building to both natural and manmade
disasters that could disrupt operations. Assessments
performed for other program requirements (safety and
security) can be utilized.
4. Alternate Operating Facility—a location other than the
primary facility used to carry out MEFs, PMEFs, or ESAs in a
continuity situation.
5. Automated Data Processing (ADP) Equipment—equipment that
performs data processing largely by automatic means.
6. Business Recovery Plan—also known as a Business Continuity
Plan, is how an organization prepares for future incidents
that could jeopardize the organization's core mission and
its long term health. Incidents include local incidents like
building fires, regional incidents like earthquakes, or
national incidents like pandemic illnesses,
7. Catastrophic Emergency—any incident, regardless of location,
that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties,
damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S.
population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or
government functions.
8. Continuity Capability—the ability of an organization to
continue performance of Essential Function utilizing
Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government
programs and integrated day-to-day operations with a primary
goal of ensuring the preservation of our form of government
under the Constitution and the continuing performance of
National Essential Functions under all conditions.
9. Continuity Coordinator—departmental representative at the
Assistant Secretary or equivalent level appointed by the
Deputy Secretary of Energy to represent the Department.
10. Continuity Emergency Management Team (CEMT)—component of the
Continuity Emergency Response Group (CERG) responsible for
coordination of information and actions in a continuity
event; the primary information hub and source for
situational updates to DOE decision makers.
11. Continuity Emergency Response Group (CERG)—individuals that
provide leadership, coordinate emergency response
activities, perform mission essential functions and
essential supporting activities and provide logistics and
other support. The CERG is divided into several teams.
12. Continuity Emergency Response Group (CERG) Member—a person
assigned responsibility to report to an alternate site to
perform MEFs, PMEFs, ESAs or other continuity related
operations.
13. Continuity Event—an emergency caused by natural disasters,
accidents, military or terrorist attacks, technological
emergencies, and pandemic/epidemic threats, which causes the
Department to relocate operations to an alternative site to
ensure continuing operation of essential functions.
14. Continuity of Government (COG)—a coordinated effort within
each branch of government (e.g., the Federal government’s
executive branch) to ensure that national essential
functions continue to be performed during a catastrophic
emergency.
15. Continuity of Operations (COOP)—an effort within individual
organizations (e.g., Federal executive branch departments
and agencies) to ensure that Mission Essential Functions
continue to be performed during continuity events, including
localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or
attack-related emergencies.
16. Continuity Programs—a general term that includes all aspects
of Enduring Constitutional Government (ECG), Continuity of
Government (COG), and Continuity of Operations (COOP).
17. Continuity Program Manager—under the direction of agency
head, manages the day-to-day continuity programs and
represents their department or agency on the continuity
community and working groups as appropriate. Reports to the
Department Continuity Coordinator
18. Continuity Readiness Assurance Program—a program developed
and implemented by each DOE office to ensure that MEFs,
PMEFs, and ESAs can be performed during a continuity event.
19. Continuity Readiness Assurance Report—documents the
readiness of the office’s continuity program based on
planning and preparedness activities and the results of the
assessment, including evaluations and improvements. Can be
included in the Emergency Management Readiness Assurance
Report.
20. Continuity Support Team (CST)—a component of the CERG
staffed by the program office and staff office personnel who
actually perform MEFs, PMEFs, and essential supporting
activities.
21. COOP Activation—the point at which the CERG is fully
operational and accepts the transfer of essential functions
from the primary operating facility.
22. COOP Coordinator—program office, staff office, or field
element representative who represent and are the point-of-
contact for their office or field element regarding COOP.
23. COOP Implementation Plan—a type of COOP plan that each DOE
HQ Program and Staff Office develops to implement their COOP
office program. COOP Implementation Plans work in concert
with the DOE COOP Plan. The Implementation Plans provides
the planning and direction to the specific office of what
needs to be done in a continuity event.
24. COOP Plan—also know as the Continuity of Operations Plan, is
a DOE wide plan that documents and describes the DOE
Continuity Program, provides implementation process and
procedures for DOE Headquarters in a continuity event and
provides guidance to DOE field element on the development
and implementation of their own COOP Programs.
25. COOP Plan Activation—the process of implementing a COOP Plan
when a notification occurs of a change in the COOP COGCON
Level to COOP COGCON 2 or 1. Usually involves the movement
of the CERG to alternate operating facilities.
26. Corrective Action Program (CAP)—a system of identifying and
tracking corrective actions for findings from continuity
tests, training, exercises, assessments, and operations. The
program will assist in the documentation, prioritizing, and
acquiring resources to improve the Continuity Program.
27. Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)—risk management
actions intended to prevent a threat from attempting to or
succeeding at destroying or incapacitating critical
infrastructures. Critical infrastructures are those systems
and assets so vital to the nation that their incapacity or
destruction would have a debilitating impact on national
security, national economic security, or national public
health or safety.
28. Delegation of Authority—identification, by position, of the
personnel with authority for making policy determinations
and decisions at Headquarters, field levels, and all other
organizational locations when primary personnel are
unavailable. Generally, pre-determined delegations of
authority will take effect when normal channels of direction
are disrupted and terminate when these channels have
resumed.
29. Devolution—the capability to transfer statutory authority
and responsibility for essential functions from an Agency's
primary operating staff and facilities to other employees
and facilities and to sustain that operational capability
for an extended period.
30. Disaster Recovery Plan—disaster recovery is the process of
regaining access to the data, hardware, and software
necessary to resume critical business operations after a
natural or human-induced disaster.
31. Drive-Away Kit—a collection of materials prepared for an
individual who expects to deploy to an alternate location
during a continuity event. It contains items needed to
minimally satisfy personal and professional needs during
deployment.
32. Emergency Operating Records—vital records essential to the
continued functioning or reconstitution of an organization
during and after a continuity event. Included are emergency
plans and directives, orders of succession, delegations of
authority, staffing assignments, selected program records
needed to continue the most critical agency operations
(MEFs/PMEFs), and related policy or procedural records that
assist Agency staff in conducting operations under emergency
conditions and for resuming normal operations after a
continuity event.
33. Emergency Readiness Assurance Plan (ERAP)—an annual report
that each field element submits summarizing its emergency
management program. It identifies the goals and
accomplishments of the past fiscal year and the goals for
the current fiscal year.
34. Enduring Constitutional Government (ECG)—a cooperative
effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial
branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the
President, as a matter of comity with respect to the
legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect
for the constitutional separation of powers among the
branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under
which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three
branches of government to execute constitutional
responsibilities and provide for orderly succession,
appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability
and support of the National Essential Functions during a
catastrophic emergency.
35. Epidemic—a pronounced clustering of contagious disease cases
within a short period of time; more generally, a contagious
disease whose frequency of occurrence is in excess of the
expected frequency in a population during a given time
interval.
36. Essential Functions—critical activities performed by
organizations after a disruption of normal activities. The
categories of essential functions are NEFs, MEFs, and PMEFs.
37. Essential Resources—those that support the Federal
Government's ability to provide vital services, exercise
civil authority, maintain the safety and well being of the
general populace, and sustain the industrial/economic base
during a continuity event.
38. Essential Supporting Activities (ESAs)—activities performed
by an agency or department that support the accomplishment
of the Department’s MEFs and PMEFs.
39. Executive Agent—a term used to indicate a delegation of
authority by a superior to a subordinate to act on behalf of
the superior. An executive agent may be limited to providing
only administration and support or coordinating common
functions or it may be delegated authority, direction, and
control over specified resources for specified purposes.
40. Exercises—organized activity designed to test the ability to
execute business continuity plans and evaluate individual or
organization performance against approved standards or
objectives. Exercises can be announced or unannounced and
are performed for the purpose of training and conditioning
team members and validating continuity plans. Exercise
results identify plan gaps and limitations and are used to
improve and revise the continuity plans. Types include table
top exercises, simulations, operational exercises, mock
disasters, desktop exercises, and full rehearsals.
41. Facility—several structures or component units with a common
or related purpose may constitute a single facility.
A complex of dissimilar buildings, processes, and equipment
may also be considered as a single facility if they are
physically adjacent, under common management, and contribute
to a common programmatic mission.
42. Field Element—operations offices, service centers, site
offices, area offices, regional offices of federally staffed
laboratories, and Power Marketing Administrations.
43. Government Emergency Telecommunication Service (GETS)—a
telecommunication service that provides continuity
responders a high probability of completion of their land
line telephone calls in a continuity event.
44. Government Functions—the collective functions of the heads
of executive departments and agencies as defined by the
Constitution, statue, regulation, presidential direction, or
other legal authority, and the functions of the legislative
and judicial branches.
45. Interagency Agreement—a written agreement entered into
between agencies that require specific goods, services to be
furnished, or tasks to be accomplished by one agency in
support of the other.
46. Interoperability—
a. The ability of systems, personnel, or agencies to
provide services to and accept services from other
systems, personnel, or agencies and to use the services
so exchanged to enable them to operate effectively
together.
b. The condition achieved among communications-electronic
systems or items of communications-electronics
equipment when information or services can be exchanged
directly and satisfactorily between them and/or their
users.
47. Interoperable Communications—alternate communications
capabilities that perform essential functions in conjunction
with other agencies until normal operations can be resumed.
48. Legal and Financial Records—vital rerecords essential to
protect legal and financial rights of the Government and
individuals directly affected by its activities, also known
as rights and interests records. Samples include accounts
receivable records, social security records, payroll
records, retirement records, and insurance records.
49. Mission Critical Data—information essential to supporting
the execution of an Agency or Department’s MEFs and PMEFs.
50. Mission Critical Systems—equipment essential to supporting
the execution of an Agency or Department's MEFs and PMEFs.
51. Mission Essential Functions (MEFs)—the limited set of
Department and Agency-level government functions that must
be continued after a disruption of normal activities. MEFs
provide vital services, exercise civil authority, maintain
the safety of the general public and sustain the
industrial/economic base during disruption of normal
operations.
52. Multi-year Strategy and Program Management Plan—a
Departmental plan that describes a process that ensures the
maintenance and continued viability of the COOP program.
53. National Essential Functions (NEFs)—a set of Government
functions that are necessary to lead and sustain the country
during a catastrophic emergency and must be supported
through COOP and COG capabilities.
54. Occupant Emergency Plan (OEP)—procedures developed to
protect life and property in a specific federally-occupied
space under stipulated emergency conditions.
55. Orders of Succession—provisions for the assigning of senior
Agency officials’ responsibilities during an emergency in
the event that any of those officials are unavailable to
execute their legal duties.
56. Pandemic—a worldwide epidemic when a new or novel strain of
influenza disease emerges in which humans have little or no
immunity, and develops the ability to infect and be passed
between humans..
57. Primary Facility—the site of normal, day-to-day operations;
the location where an employee usually goes to work.
58. Primary Mission Essential Functions (PMEFs)—those Government
functions that must be performed to support or implement the
performance of NEFs before, during and in the aftermath of a
continuity event.
59. Reconstitution—the process by which surviving and/or
replacement Agency personnel resume normal operations from
the original or replacement primary operating facility.
60. Risk Analysis—identification and assessment of hazards
effects and countermeasures.
61. Site–the area over which DOE has access control authority.
62. Telecommuting Locations—those locations with computers and
telephones that enable employees to work at locations other
than their main offices.
63. Telework—when an employee carries out work duties at his/her
residence or other location rather than the official duty
station.
64. Test—a pass/fail evaluation of infrastructure (e.g.,
computers, cabling, devices, hardware and physical plant
infrastructure (e.g., building systems, generators,
utilities)) to demonstrate the anticipated operation of the
components and system. Tests are often
performed as part of normal operations and maintenance.
Tests are often included within exercises (See Exercise).
65. Training, Testing, and Exercises (TT&E)—measures to ensure
that a Department/Agency's COOP program is capable of
supporting the continued execution of its MEFs, PMEFs, and
ESAs throughout the duration of a COOP situation.
66. Virtual Offices—a location or environment where an employee
performs work with portable information technology and
communication packages.
67. Vital Databases—information systems needed to support MEFs,
PMEFs, and ESAs during a COOP situation.
68. Vital Records—the emergency operating records and legal and
financial rights records required to accomplish MEFs, PMEFs,
and ESAs during and after a continuity event, or as part of
the recovery from a disaster.
69. Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)—weapons that are capable
of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such
a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of
mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear,
biological, chemical, and radiological weapons.
ATTACHMENT 1. ACRONYM LIST
ADP Automated Data Processing
AL/SC Albuquerque Service Center
AOC Alternate Operations Center
CAP Corrective Action Plan
CEMT Continuity Emergency Management Team
CERG Continuity Emergency Response Group
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CIO Chief Information Officer
CIP Critical Infrastructure Protection
COG Continuity of Government
COGCON Continuity of Government Condition
COOP Continuity of Operations
CRD Contract Requirements Document
CST Continuity Support Team
D/A Department and Agency
DOE Department of Energy
DHS Department of Homeland Security
ECG Enduring Constitutional Government
EOC Emergency Operations Center
ERAP Emergency Readiness Assurance Plan
ESA Essential Supporting Activities
ESF Emergency Support Function
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FOC FEMA Operations Center
GETS Government Emergency Telecommunications Service
GSA General Services Administration
HQ Headquarters
HSOC Homeland Security Operations Center
HVAC Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
HSPD Homeland Security Presidential Directive
HSS Health, Safety, and Security Office
IT Information Technology
LPSO Lead Program Secretarial Officer
MEF Mission Essential Functions
NEF National Essential Functions
NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration
NRP National Response Plan
NCS National Communications System
NCSD National Communications System Directive
NSPD National Security Presidential Directive
OEP Occupant Emergency Plan
OMB Office of Management and Budget
P.L. Public Law
PMEF Primary Mission Essential Functions
PSO Program Secretarial Officer
SF Standard Form
TECC Transportation Emergency Control Center
TT&E Testing, Training, and Exercises
UCNI Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information
U.S.C. United States Code
WHMO White House Military Office
WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction