Federal agencies are already required to protect their essential functions and critical infrastructure according to executive orders and documents such as FPC 65 outlining Continuity Of Operations (COOP) plans. Since safekeeping of vital records and databases must be secured under all circumstances, this requires EMP planning and protection. Since federal agencies have not been fully compliant in this arena, more explicit EMP requirements are being drafted for inclusion into these regulations.
" 6. POLICY: It is the policy of the United States to have in place a comprehensive and effective program to ensure continuity of essential Federal functions under all circumstances. To support this policy the Federal Executive Branch has implemented the Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program.
COOP is defined as the activities of individual departments and agencies and their sub-components to ensure that their essential functions are performed. This includes plans and procedures that delineate essential functions; specify succession to office and the emergency delegation of authority; provide for the safekeeping of vital records and databases; identify alternate operating facilities; provide for interoperable communications; and validate the capability through tests, training, and exercises. All Federal agencies, regardless of location, shall have in place a viable COOP capability to ensure continued performance of essential functions from alternate operating sites during any emergency or situation that may disrupt normal operations." (FPC 65)
See the FPC-65, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, D.C. 20472, as revised June 15, 2004 at the FEMA website, http://www.fema.gov/txt/library/fpc65_0604.txt .
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