[ECAC] NTS-FEMA

[John J. McDonough]

The document simply outlines communications assets, although it does
speak to risks to some of those assets and remediation should they be
compromised.  And even that is pretty brief given that there are so many
MPSCS towers, microwave towers, telephone switching stations, cell
towers, EOCs, 911 centers, etc. etc. etc.  It is more of a
Michigan-specific NIFOG than an actual plan.

It attempts to enumerate every emergency communications asset in the
state, so it can only speak to a handful in any more detail than just
mentioning they are there.

For a relatively tiny number of facilities it gives a few words about
alternatives, but given so many moving parts, it only speaks to a small
fraction. 

The only "scenarios" are a short mention of likely threats in the
introduction.

It is intended, I believe, to give FEMA some background should they be
called on to help in Michigan.  Since any deficiencies are going to be
incident-specific, I suspect anything more would be noise.  There are
lots and lots of maps, though, which would seem to be more helpful.
They even included a map of Michigan hams, which I suspect is wrong.  It
might be a map of RACES members, I don't know where they got it.
Eyeballing it (I didn't count) there might be 2,000 dots on it,
certainly not 22,000.

73 de WB8RCR