Table of Contents:
	Background and Purpose
	Organizational Structure
	Functions of the NCC
	General Operating Procedures
	Funding Arrangements
	Amendments to the NCC Charter
	Appendix

Functions of the NCC

The National Coordinating Center (NCC) is a joint industry-government operation wherein the government is represented by the Office of the Manager, NCS, and by both resident and non-resident representatives of the NCS member entities and the telecommunications industry. In the NCC, the government and the telecommunications industry jointly plan and work to assist in providing for a more endurable national telecommunications system to satisfy the NS/EP telecommunications service requirements of the government. Industry entities not physically represented (i.e., resident) in the NCC shall be afforded the maximum practicable opportunity to participate in the activities of the NCC.

In assisting the government in meeting NS/EP telecommunications service requirements, the NCC performs or contributes to the performance of the functions enumerated below:

• Promptly provide technical analysis/damage assessment of service disruptions and identify necessary restoration actions.
  
  
• Coordinate/direct prompt restoration of telecommunications services in support of NS/EP needs.
  
  
• Develop and exercise comprehensive service restoration plans.
  
  
• Develop watch center type functions to work through cooperating industry operation centers to effectively monitor the status of essential telecommunications facilities.
  
  
• Maintain access to an accurate inventory of the minimum essential equipment, personnel, and other resources which are available for restoration operations to include the location and capabilities of all industry's network operations centers (NOCs).
  
  
• Identify liaison points in each company.
  
  
• Maintain ability to rapidly transfer operations from normal to emergency operations.
  
  
• Coordinate/direct and expedite the initiation of NS/EP telecommunications services.
  
  
• Contribute to the development of technical standards and national network planning and ensure application of those standards and dissemination of those plans to facilities serving NS/EP needs.
  
  
• Coordinate/direct network reconfiguration plans in support of NS/EP needs. In performing these functions, the NCC monitors the status of all essential telecommunications facilities including public switched networks.

The NCC is not intended to be the initial step for users to seek assistance in the provisioning or restoration of NS/EP telecommunications service(s). Assistance should be sought through existing normal contacts within a service vendor, and through escalation within the organizational structure of a service vendor, before requesting the involvement of the NCC. NCC assistance normally should be sought only after alternative approaches have been explored and exhausted.

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