3.2: Infrastructure & Security

Provide effective infrastructure and security management.

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This objective encompasses building, modernizing, and maintaining physical and information technology infrastructure to ensure a safe and secure workplace, to achieve mission goals, and to respond to and anticipate both routine and emergency agency requirements. The agency's Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) represents a principal initiative under this objective. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducts annual testing of all federal agency COOP programs. Each federal agency is graded on its responses to the questions and their communication methods by FEMA staff. A second important initiative involves facilities management and space usage. The FTC works with General Services Administration (GSA) to lease space and assesses staff requirements to anticipate needs for outfitting the buildings with adequate work space, conference space and storage space. Finally, managing technical infrastructure and ensuring the availability and reliability of the agency computer and communication facilities represents another important dimension of our work under this initiative. Performance Measures: - A favorable Continuity of Operations (COOP) rating. - Availability of information technology systems. These measures gauge important dimensions of maintaining physical and information technology infrastructure and security. A COOP rating offers insight to agency preparedness across a wide spectrum of issues related to facility and operations management. Network availability addresses the reliability of the FTC computer and communications systems.

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