Department of Homeland Security Announces Pinnacle Exercise to Test Continuity of Operations (COOP) Plans
For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 June 20, 2005 As part of the ongoing efforts to test and improve our ability to perform essential government functions during threats and emergencies, the U. S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal departments and agencies will test their continuity of operations (COOP) plans during Exercise PINNACLE, a four day exercise planned for June 20-24. The exercise will allow federal officials to implement COOP plans, test communications connectivity, and demonstrate that essential functions can be effectively conducted during threats and emergencies. Similar to the "Forward Challenge" exercise conducted in May 2004, Exercise PINNACLE will also include a hypothetical terrorism scenario and accompanying emergencies that require COOP activities to be conducted by the Federal government. The Exercise scenario is not based on any specific threat or intelligence information. Unlike the recent "TOPOFF Exercise" which involved real life response capabilities using assets and personnel from Federal. state and local governments, Exercise PINNACLE will simply test operations and procedures for performing essential government functions during threats and emergencies. "Assuring the ability of the Federal government to continue its essential functions is good government," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. "Threat situations, domestic attacks, and natural disasters all present challenges to our Federal operations, and Exercise PINNACLE provides a demanding scenario to test our essential functions and assure their continuation." ###http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=4547 FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
