A Progressive Approach to Assuring Your Mission: The shift from strictly COOP planning to a Mission Assurance Posture

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A Progressive Approach to Assuring Your
MissionThe shift from strictly COOP planning
to a Mission Assurance Posture
Mr. Matthew Mahar, CBCP Mission Assurance Planner
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Old Think Planning
Previous models of planning were often
stove-piped, with planners only doing one type of
planning, often to the exclusion of all other
areas. There was little or no integration, and
often no coordination. Everyone stayed in their
own little box, often duplicating the efforts of
other planners.
IT/DR
COOP
Emergency Mgmt
Crisis Mgmt
Personnel Accountability
Information Assurance
Communications
End Result Multiple sets of checklists and
procedures to use during an emergency, often
conflicting with, or duplicating, the efforts of
other planners.
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Old Models of Planning

• Pros
• Ease of planning
• Very internal focused
• Very little coordination needed to implement
• Cons
• Lack of integration and coordination
• Duplicative or conflicting planning and
  procedures developed
• Duplication of effort
• Multiple planners doing the same planning for
  different shops within the same organization.

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What is Mission Assurance?

• It is a set of planned, systematic actions taken
  to provide the requisite resilience, agility, and
  reliability that warrant measured confidence in
  an organizations ability to continue to operate,
  maintain, recover, and reconstitute the
  organizations mission and business functions
  during all types of emergencies and environments.
• It is a collaborative effort of programs on
  continuity of operations, crisis management,
  critical infrastructure protection, emergency
  management, and testing and training those
  capabilities.

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The Transition to Integrative Planning
Information Assurance
Resource Management
COOP
CIP
Information Defense
Risk Management
Personnel Accountability
Public Relations
Program Assessments Audits
Infectious Disease Planning
Crisis Mgmt
Emerg Mgmt
Mission Critical Systems Databases
COG/ECG
Crisis Communications
IT/DR
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Integrative Planning
IT/Disaster Recovery
Continuity of Operations
Crisis Management
COG/ECG
Information Defense
Risk Management
Information Assurance
Resource Management
Mission Assurance
Program Assessments Audits
Personnel Accountability
Mission Critical Systems
Infectious Disease Planning
Critical Infrastructure Protection
Emergency Management
Crisis Communications
Public Relations
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Integrative Mission Assurance Planning

• Pros
• Streamlined Organizational Efficiency
• Multi-disciplined planners, integrative planning
• Cross training allows more coverage in handling
  adverse situations (employee illness, pandemics,
  customer service)
• Cost savings
• Less duplication of effort and resources
• Fewer personnel doing the same (or similar) work
  separately
• Enhance Resiliency and Recovery
• Integrative planning ensures fewer unplanned
  consequences to an event
• Ensures most aspects of possible risks/threats
  have been planned for

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Integrative Mission Assurance Planning

• Cons
• Takes a complete mindset shift
• Many planners are stuck in the old stove-piped
  thinking
• Very protective of their current jobs
• Expenses
• Requires additional training for current staff
• Possible hire of new, multi-discipline planners
• Training
• More extensive testing and training would need to
  be done, especially with the senior leaders of
  the organization

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Questions?