National Emergency Communications Plan

Overview
The National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) is an overarching strategy to help coordinate and guide interoperable response by the U.S.’s public safety, public health, and emergency management community, both public and private, at the Federal, State, tribal, territorial, regional, and local levels.

Congress directed the Department of Homeland Security to develop the first NECP to promote the ability of emergency response providers and relevant government officials to continue to communicate in the event of natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters and to ensure, accelerate, and attain interoperable emergency communications nationwide.

Source

 * Department of Homeland Security, National Emergency Communications Plan (July 2008) (full-text).