Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)

Abstract

Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN) provides the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) engineer with plans and procedures; systems analysis; operational assessments; systems engineering; and development of concepts of operation and architectures. The NC3 System provides connectivity from the President and the Secretary of Defense through the National Military Command System (NMCS) to nuclear execution forces integral to fighting a “homeland-to-homeland,” as well as theater nuclear war. MEECN includes the Emergency Action Message (EAM) dissemination systems and those systems used for integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (TW/AA), presidential decision-making conferencing, force report back, re-targeting, force management, and requests for permission to use nuclear weapons. Efforts assure positive control of nuclear forces and connectivity between the Secretary of Defense, strategic and theater forces, and an informed decision-making linkage between the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Combatant Commands. MEECN ensures our national leadership has proper command and control of our forces during times of national emergency, up to and including nuclear war. Reduction or elimination of funding would seriously degrade DISA’s ability to perform the systems engineering functions supporting the maintenance and evolution of MEECN. DISA would not be able to provide nuclear C3 planning assistance to the Joint Staff, nor perform assessments of the nuclear C3 system.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: 0303131K_7_0400_PB_2013
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2011 increase of +$1.111 provides for increased NC3 operational assessments, future architecture and crypto modernization efforts. The FY 2013 increase of +$0.132 also provides for increased NC3 operational assessments, future architecture and crypto modernization efforts.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Counter WMD
• Electronic Warfare
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Command Centers
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Department Of Defense
• Electronic Warfare
• Emergencies
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Information Systems
• Leadership
• Personal Information Managers
• Systems Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Strategic Security Studies
• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control