1. Facility-Specific Assessments: Assess each of the six ASD facilities to identify critical mission-essential functions (MEFs), vulnerabilities, and resource requirements in compliance with FEMA’s COOP plan framework. 2. MEF Identification and Prioritization: Collaborate with ASD staff to identify and prioritize MEFs, ensuring that essential services such as data security, education services, transportation, and maintenance can continue during disruptions. 3. Development of Continuity Strategies: Propose and document detailed continuity strategies, including alternate facilities, communication systems, resource allocation, and leadership succession plans, following FEMA’s CGC and CPG 101 guidance. 4. COOP Plan Documentation: Develop a comprehensive COOP plan that includes key FEMA-required elements: orders of succession, delegation of authority, vital records management, IT systems recovery, communications protocols, and reconstitution planning. 5. Plan Review, Testing, and Validation: Ensure the COOP plan is reviewed by ASD stakeholders and accompanied by a recommended validation approach, including a multi-year, progressive exercise and training plan consistent with FEMA’s Continuity of Operations guidance and national best practices. 6. Final Submission: Deliver the final COOP plan, fully compliant with FEMA standards and national best practices, by December 31, 2025.
