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CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS PLAN


COOP Overview: Planning Objectives


Ensure continued performance of essential functions

  • Reduce loss of life/minimize damage
  • Ensure succession to office of key leadership
  • Reduce/mitigate disruptions to operations
  • Protect essential assets
  • Achieve timely recovery/reconstitution
  • Maintain TT&E program for validation

COOP plans must:

  • Be capable of implementation anytime, with and without warning
  • Provide full operational capability for essential functions not later than 12 hours after activation
  • Be capable of sustaining operations for up to 30 days
  • Include regularly scheduled TT&E

Elements of a Viable COOP Capability

  • Plans and Procedures
  • Essential Functions
  • Delegations of Authority
  • Orders of Succession
  • Alternate Facilities
  • Interoperable Communications
  • Vital Records
  • Human Capital
  • TT&E
  • Devolution
  • Reconstitution
  • Provide vital services
  • Exercise civil authority
  • Maintain the safety of the general public
  • Sustain the industrial and economic base

Essential functions:

  • Agencies must determine functions that must be continued in all circumstances
  • Most important planning element
  • Basis for determining resource requirements:
    • Staff
    • Vital information/critical systems
    • Equipment
    • Supplies and services
    • Facilities
Last Updated: Friday January 16 2009
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