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 to nuclear execution forces integral to fighting a “homeland-to-homeland,” as well as theater nuclear war. MEECN includes the Emergency Action Message dissemination systems and those systems used for integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment, 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, military 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: 0303131K_7_0400_PB_2015
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2013 increase of +$5.198 added to cryto-modernization upgrades that were required to ensure compatabilty with existing equipment within the POTUS transporters. The FY 2015 decrease of -$0.630 will reduce the ability to engineer enterprise solutions that deliver uninterrupted communications throughout the pre, trans, and post-nuclear warfare environment. These efforts are ncessary to securely manage geographically dispersed defense assets and resources (in real time). These changes are directly attributable to the Budget Control Act reductions.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Counter WMD
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Emergencies
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Information Systems
• Nuclear Weapons
• Systems Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• Tactical Warning
• Unified Combatant Commands

Readers

• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security
• Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

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