Draft2:NS/EP Communications Executive Committee
Template:Stub noticeThe The NS/EP Communications Executive Committee was established by Executive Order 13618 on July 6, 2012 to serve as an interagency forum to increase the likelihood that essential government and private-sector individuals can complete critical phone calls and organizations can quickly restore service during periods of disruption and congestion resulting from natural or man-made disasters. Among other things, the Committee is to advise and make policy recommendations to the President on enhancing the survivability, resilience, and future architecture for NS/EP communications.
The Committee is directed by Executive Order 13618 to develop strategy which includes funding requirements and plans.
It replaced the National Communications System (NCS).
Organization
It is responsible for advising the President on enhancing NS/EP communications survivability and resilience.
Representatives
The Executive Committee shall be composed of Assistant Secretary-level or equivalent representatives designated by the heads of the
- Department of State
- Department of Defense
- Department of Justice
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Homeland Security
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
- General Services Administration
- Federal Communications Commission
- additional agencies as the Executive Committee may designate
Co-chairs
The designees of the organizations below serve as Co-Chairs of the Executive Committee.
- Secretary of Homeland Security
- Secretary of Defense
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the Executive Committee shall be to:
- (a) advise and make policy recommendations to the President, through the PPD-1 process, on enhancing the survivability, resilience, and future architecture of NS/EP communications, including what should constitute NS/EP communications requirements;
- (b) develop a long-term strategic vision for NS/EP communications and propose funding requirements and plans to the President and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), through the PPD-1 process, for NS/EP communications initiatives that benefit multiple agencies or other Federal entities;
- (c) coordinate the planning for, and provision of, NS/EP communications for the Federal Government under all hazards;
- (d) promote the incorporation of the optimal combination of hardness, redundancy, mobility, connectivity, interoperability, restorability, and security to obtain, to the maximum extent practicable, the survivability of NS/EP communications under all circumstances;
- (e) recommend to the President, through the PPD-1 process, the regimes to test, exercise, and evaluate the capabilities of existing and planned communications systems, networks, or facilities to meet all executive branch NS/EP communications requirements, including any recommended remedial actions;
- (f) provide quarterly updates to the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and the Director of OSTP, through the Co-Chairs, on the status of Executive Committee activities and develop an annual NS/EP communications strategic agenda utilizing the PPD-1 process;
- (g) enable industry input with respect to the responsibilities established in this section; and
- (h) develop, approve, and maintain a charter for the Executive Committee.
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