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R 121503Z AUG 99

FM: DIRMILSPT DCSOPS WASHINGTON DC//DAMO-ODS//

ACTION CNO WASHINGTON DC//N32//

Subject: Y2K CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02

SUBJ:Y2K CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT

REF/A/DOD DIRECTIVE 3025.1/DTD 15 JAN 93./

REF/B/DOD 3025.1-M/DTD 2 JUN 94./

REF/C/DOD DIRECTIVE 3025.15/DTD 18 FEB 97./

REF/D/FEDERAL RESPONSE PLAN (FRP)/APR 99

REF/E/STAFFORD ACT/AS AMENDED./

REF/F/ECONOMY ACT

REF/G/DOD DIRECTIVE 5160.54/DTD 20 JAN 98/

REF/H/DEPSECDEF MEMO OF 22 FEBRUARY 1999/

REF/I/DIRMILSPT MSG 101032Z FEB 99

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REF/J/DIRMILSPT MSG 211939Z JUN 99

REF/K/DOD YEAR 2000 CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT PLAN DTD MAY 1999

NARR/REF A, B, AND C DESIGNATE THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY AS EXECUTIVE

AGENT FOR MILITARY SUPPORT TO CIVIL AUTHORITIES (MSCA) AND OUTLINE

PROCEDURES FOR REQUESTING AND PROVIDING MSCA. REF D PROVIDES THE

FRAMEWORK FOR FEDERAL RESPONSE AND REF E AND F ARE THE AUTHORITY FOR

REIMBURSEMENT FOR DOD SUPPORT IN THE EVENT OF A NATIONAL EMERGENCY.

REF G DESIGNATES ARMY AS THE EXECUTIVE AGENT FOR THE CRITICAL ASSET

ASSURANCE PROGRAM. REF H PROVIDES SECDEF GUIDANCE FOR THE Y2K

TRANSITION PERIOD. REF I AND J PROVIDE DIRMILSPT MSG GUIDANCE ON Y2K

MATTERS. REF K PROVIDES DOD Y2K TASKINGS.

NARR/RETRANSMIT AS NECESSARY TO DOD COMPONENTS

UNCLAS

SUBJ: Y2K CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT//

GENTEXT/

1. BACKGROUND.//

1.A. THIS MESSAGE IS THE THIRD IN A SERIES INTENDED TO PROVIDE

INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE REGARDING ISSUES OF DOMESTIC YEAR 2000 (Y2K)

CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT.

1.B. DOD MITIGATION AND RESPONSE ACTIVITIES FOR POTENTIAL Y2K

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SITUATIONS CONTINUE TO OCCUR AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT LEVELS:

1.B.1. OPERATIONAL EVALUATION (OPEVAL) OF DOD SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT

TO PERFORM MISSION (OPERATIONAL NATIONAL SECURITY READINESS).

1.B.2. DOMESTIC Y2K CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT (MILITARY SUPPORT TO

CIVIL AUTHORITIES (MSCA))/ MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR CIVIL DISTURBANCES

(MACDIS).

1.B.3. FOREIGN Y2K CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT (INTERNATIONAL

HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE).

1.C. WITHIN DOD, OSD(C3I)/JS/SERVICES/COMPONENTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR

DOD

OPEVALS, DOMS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DOMESTIC Y2K CONSEQUENCE MANAGEMENT,

AND THE JOINT STAFF IS RESPONSIBLE FOR INTERNATIONAL Y2K EMERGENCY

ASSISTANCE.

1.D. DOMS IS WORKING CLOSELY WITH OSD, JS, SERVICES, USACE, NGB,

FEMA, AND THE INTERAGENCY ON THE ISSUES OF DOMESTIC Y2K CONSEQUENCE

MANAGEMENT.

2. Y2K NEWS SINCE THE LAST MESSAGE:

2.A. OSD(C3I) HAS DEVELOPED A Y2K ACTION PLAN (REF K) WHICH PROVIDES

TASKINGS FOR VARIOUS DOD OFFICES, SERVICES, AND ORGANIZATIONS.

2.A.1. SOME NORMALLY SCHEDULED REQUIREMENTS FOR TRAINING MAY HAVE TO

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BE MOVED UP TO COMPLY WITH END OF YEAR DEADLINES.

2.B. ANY REQUESTS FOR INVENTORY LEVELS OF DOD RESOURCES FROM NON-DOD

ACTIVITIES WILL BE DENIED.

2.C. REF H PROVIDES DOD PRIORITIES FOR DOD RESOURCE ALLOCATION

DURING THE Y2K TRANSITION PERIOD. IT SHOULD BE ANTICIPATED AND

PUBLICIZED THAT NOT ALL REQUESTS FROM CIVIL AUTHORITIES WILL BE

FILLED.

3. SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:

3.A. EXPECTATIONS: IT SHOULD BE PUBLICIZED THAT FEDERAL AGENCIES

ARE READY FOR THE Y2K TRANSITION AND THAT THERE IS LITTLE CAUSE FOR

CONCERN ABOUT ANY DOMESTIC INFRASTRUCTURE BREAKDOWN.

3.B. SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: NATIONAL Y2K POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

ARE CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN

INFORMATION COORDINATION CENTER (ICC). THE ICC IS A WHITE HOUSE

LEVEL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR Y2K INFORMATION AND WILL GATHER Y2K RELATED

DATA RECEIVED BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND OVERSEAS.

3.C. RESOURCE VISIBILITY: REQUEST INSTALLATION COMMANDERS, IN

ACCORDANCE WITH THE OSD Y2K ACTION PLAN, APPROPRIATELY CONDUCT

ASSESSMENT AND INVENTORY OF EQUIPMENT LIKELY TO BE REQUESTED TO

SUPPORT MSCA MISSIONS. THIS COMPILED INFORMATION SHOULD BE PASSED

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THROUGH APPROPRIATE CHANNELS BUT WILL NOT BE PROVIDED TO NON-DOD

ORGANIZATIONS.

3.D. RESOURCE ALLOCATION:

3.D.1. THE REQUIREMENT FOR AN EXERCISE BETWEEN FORSCOM AND DOMS FOR

THE PURPOSE OF RESOURCE REALLOCATION WILL BE SATISFIED BY NORMAL

OPERATIONS DURING HURRICANE/WILD FIRE SEASON.

3.D.2. THE CATASTROPHIC DISASTER RESPONSE GROUP (CDRG) WILL HOLD A

Y2K RESOURCE ALLOCATION TTX ON 6 OCTOBER 1999 AT FEMA HEADQUARTERS.

3.E. RESPONSE MANAGEMENT TRAINING:

3.E.1. THE TRAINING REQUIREMENT FOR CIVIL DISTURBANCES ONLY APPLIES

TO THOSE UNITS THAT HAVE A MACDIS MISSION. ANNUAL TRAINING FOR THESE

UNITS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BEFORE THE END OF CY 1999.

3.E.2. TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR DEFENSE COORDINATING OFFICERS (DCO)

AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS LIAISON OFFICERS (EPLO) SHOULD ALSO BE

ACCOMPLISHED BEFORE THE END OF CY 1999.

4. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

4.A. Y2K WEBSITES. / FURTHER Y2K INFORMATION/ GUIDANCE CAN BE FOUND

AT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITES:

- PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON YEAR 2000 CONVERSION: WWW.Y2K.GOV

- FEMA: WWW.FEMA.GOV/Y2K

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- YEAR 2000 INFORMATION CENTER: WWW.YEAR2000.COM

- U.S. GOVERNMENT'S OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:

WWW.ITPOLICY.GSA.GOV

- AMERICAN RED CROSS: WWW.REDCROSS.ORG/Y2K.HTML

- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY: WWW.DOE.GOV

- DOD, ASD (C3I): WWW.DTIC.MIL/C3I/

- DOMS: WWW.HQDA-AOC.ARMY.PENTAGON.MIL/DOMS/DOMS.HTML

- ARMY: WWW.ARMY.MIL/ARMY-Y2K/

- ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS: WWW.USACE.ARMY.MIL

- AIR FORCE: WWW.AFCA.AF.MIL/PA

- USMC: ISSB-WW1.QUANTICO.USMC.MIL/YEAR2000/FRAMES/USMCY2K.HTML

- NAVY (SECNAV): WWW.DONCIO.NAVY.MIL/Y2K/YEAR2000.HTM

- NAVY(OPNAV): WWW.CNOY2K.NAVY.MIL/NY2K/NYK/NY2K.HTM

5. POINTS OF CONTACT./

- DOMS - MR. GARY WARREN, DSN 227-9800, (703) 697-9800

- JS - RADM WILLARD, (703) 697-4070

- USACE - MR. WILLIAM DOUGLAS, (202) 761-5089

- ACOM - LTCOL TOM SIMPSON, (DSN) 836-0212

- FORSCOM - MR. FRANK COX, (DSN) 367-6300

- PACOM - CDR BRUCE KAHL, (DSN) 477-7375

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- NAVY(OPNAV) - MR. RICK SANDELLI, (DSN) 227-7259

6. ADDRESSEES PROVIDE ORGANIZATIONAL Y2K POINTS OF CONTACT AND PHONE

NUMBERS TO MR. GARY G. WARREN, DOMS, DSN 227-5456/ COM (703)

697-5456/ WARRENG@DOMS.ARMY.MIL

*DEDICATED TO * $$$*EXCELLENCE IN * $$$*COMMUNICATIONS* $$$

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-- (over@and.out), September 25, 1999

Answers

I quote:

3.A. EXPECTATIONS: IT SHOULD BE PUBLICIZED THAT FEDERAL AGENCIES ARE READY FOR THE Y2K TRANSITION AND THAT THERE IS LITTLE CAUSE FOR CONCERN ABOUT ANY DOMESTIC INFRASTRUCTURE BREAKDOWN.

3.D.2. THE CATASTROPHIC DISASTER RESPONSE GROUP (CDRG) WILL HOLD A Y2K RESOURCE ALLOCATION TTX ON 6 OCTOBER 1999 AT FEMA HEADQUARTERS.

Why do these statements give me such a warm fuzzy feeling that everything is going to be A-OK??? Since "publicizing" that federal agencies are prepared for Y2K and that there is no cause for alarm is not the same as flaty declaring federal agencies are compliant AND prepared...we get to look forward to a "Catastrophic Disaster Support Group". Hmmm. Do I detect a slight discrepency here?

-- Reading (Between@thelines.com), September 25, 1999.


Pretty good stuff! Were they just declassified today?

-- @ (@@@.@), September 25, 1999.

I'm still trying to decide if posting all of those phone numbers is such a good idea.

-- Deborah (infowars@yahoo.com), September 25, 1999.

I am suddenly reminded of that scene from Animal House where the ROTC cadet is jumping up and down screaming "ALL IS WELL!!!!" just before he is trampled by the crowd...

-- Sam Mcgee (weissacre@gwtc.net), September 25, 1999.

Well why would we expect to hear the truth now? We can not count on our elected officials or our military to ever tell us the straight-up truth, if they did that we would be harder to control!

-- beth (amstarpm@aol.com), September 25, 1999.


Deborah: Don't worry about the phone numbers--try to actually get through on one of them. As a former Army wife I know they are notoriously "busy".

-- Preparing (benn@there.com), September 25, 1999.

Any .mil type care to translate?

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), September 25, 1999.

The training requirement for civil disturbances only appplies to those units that have a Mardis mission

What type of units and what exactly is the Mardis mission?

-- (aaa@aaa.com), September 25, 1999.


Hmmm, what do we think of people who use all caps?

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 25, 1999.

aaa,

I didn't see anything about "MARDIS", but page mentions "MACDIS":

" MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR CIVIL DISTURBANCES (MACDIS)."

Mara,

"Hmmm, what do we think of people who use all caps?"

What I think is that they are still using VERY old systems, ya know the kind with printers that only use caps?" Yes, it is annoying, but not hard to change case with a word processor as Vronsky did with page one.

A&L,

Actually, if you start from page one and read all the way through it isn't too hard to understand. (better formatting might help). It is mostly just spelling out their operating procedures, protocols, and priorities. You'll notice that they have acronyms (of course) for each task force, etc., and who reports to who and gets authority from who, blah, blah. They've also coded status of situations using a simple "traffic light color system", red, amber, green...

-- @ (@@@.@), September 25, 1999.



"If the software has slipped this far, it's gonna slip ALL the way!"



-- K Stevens (kstevens@ It's ALL going away in January.com), September 25, 1999.


The reason they use all caps is because most military communications still use teletype equipment. TTY equipment does not have lower case.

-- Don Wegner (donfmwyo@earthlink.net), September 26, 1999.

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