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Center Works to Protect Communications Infrastructure

By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press Service, 11/9/2001
<a href="http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2001/n11072001_200111072.html">http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2001/n11072001_200111072.html>

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2001 -- America is a cyber nation. In this
post-industrial world, moving information is as important as moving
people or things. 
If you wanted to cripple America, one of the things you might strike is
the telecommunications network. Fortunately, Americans are thinking of
this possibility and are working together to protect this crucial
national resource. 
Bernie Farrell is the manager of the National Coordinating Center for
Telecommunications, a part of the National Communications System. It's
his job to think of the unthinkable and craft responses. 
Farrell and his people are the bridge between industry and government.
Located with the Defense Information Systems Agency, the coordinating
center works with telecommunications companies and appropriate
government agencies, including the Defense Department. Farrell is
himself a bridge between the two worlds. He has more than 32 years of
telecommunications experience with the Bell System and the United States
Navy. He assumed his current job in 1995. 
The coordinating center is primarily concerned with the national
security and emergency preparedness functions of the telecommunications
infrastructure. "We focus on that narrow piece," Farrell said. "But in
focusing on that piece, we work with the companies to foster planning
and training and exercises that allow us to ensure that we can respond
and recover." 
This ensures the government and the financial sector can keep working
through a disaster, he said. "Those things came to play for sure in the
World Trade Center event and the Pentagon event," Farrell said. 
Efforts at the center are cooperative. The government provides office
space and communications capabilities, and industry provides expertise
and familiarity with the various systems. The center works closely with
the DISA Global Network Operation and Security Center and the Joint Task
Forces - Computer Network Operations. "The center has people standing
watch with these organizations," he said. "The military and industry
share information through the center." 
The center's primary vehicle is training. "We go out on training events
to each region of the country," Farrell said. "We bring in local
government folks, local federal people and we'll bring together local
telecommunications people. We sit down and talk about the various
programs and how we line up in the federal response plan so that when an
event happens we're on the same sheet of music." 
The center runs three to four regional training events each year, plus
internal "tabletop" exercises. "It's a big effort," he said. "Everything
we do is a value-added proposition. If there's no value-added, (the
telecommunications) people won't come. We get 60 to 100 people depending
on the size of the region." 
The center also works closely with the Federal Emergency Management
Agency and other federal offices. 
One side benefit of the training, he said, is, "if you put the right
people together at the conference then they can deal with those things
at the lowest possible level." 
The national center shouldn't be involved with every little problem. "We
only need to be involved if a problem can't be resolved at the local or
regional level," Farrell said. "We don't fix anything from here, we
coordinate. We get the right person in touch with the right person or
the right piece of equipment to the right person -- whatever it takes to
fix a problem."

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