[Scan-DC] COG Exercise Next Week?

[Punworg]

I meant COG as in "Continuity of Government" but I linked to an unhelpful blog item.  This is the essay that explains the exercise:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/06/back_to_the_bunker.html

Excerpts:

On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their families and set off for dozens of classified emergency facilities stretching from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs to the foothills of the Alleghenies. They will take to the bunkers in an "evacuation" that my sources describe as the largest "continuity of government" exercise ever conducted, a drill intended to prepare the U.S. government for an event even more catastrophic than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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This year's exercise, Forward Challenge '06, will be the third major interagency continuity exercise since 9/11. Larger than Forward Challenge '04 and the Pinnacle exercise held last year, it requires 31 departments and agencies (including FEMA) to relocate. Fifty to 60 are expected to take part.
According to government sources, the exercise will test the newly created continuity of government alert conditions -- called COGCONs -- that emulate the DEFCONs of the national security community. Forward Challenge will begin with a series of alerts via BlackBerry and pager to key officials. It will test COGCON 1, the highest level of preparedness, in which each department and agency is required to have at least one person in its chain of command and sufficient staffing at alternate operating facilities to perform essential functions.


Michael Seneco <ipnvir023 at yahoo.com> wrote: It's actually not a COG drill - it'safederal drill being coordinated by Homeland Security. I just got the plan tonight (114 pages) I will look at it tomorrow and if there is any freq data in it for the drill, I will pass it along.


Punworg <punworg at yahoo.com> wrote: There may be some interesting comms on Monday, 6/19.  See this link:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/06/more_about_the_plan_1.html#21779



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