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, 2016
• Source ID: 0303131K_7_0400_PB_2016
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2014 increase of +$1.638 was the result of the completion of additional system assessments and development of overarching National Leadership Command Capabilities (NLCC) architecture to support future NLCC modernization. The FY 2016 increase of +$0.412 enables limited development of technical solutions that improve NLCC performance to meet evolving senior leader priorities aligned to changing world events.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Information Systems Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Information Systems Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Counter WMD

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Command And Control
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Department Of Veterans Affairs
• Emergencies
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Information Systems
• Molecular Dynamics
• Nuclear Weapons
• Systems Analysis
• Systems Engineering
• Tactical Warning
• Unified Combatant Commands

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