Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) 

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The National Continuity Policy Implementation Plan (NCPIP) published in 2007 established the 
requirement for the National Continuity Coordinator to convene an Interagency Advisory Board 
(IAB). 

 

Charter 
The Board’s charter is to review the Candidate Primary Mission Essential Functions (PMEFs) 
submitted by the Category I to III departments and agencies as established by the Federal 
Continuity Directive 2 requirements. FEMA provides support to the IAB by collecting and reviewing 
the packages for compliance with FCD 2 submission requirements. After completing this task, the 
FEMA support team provided the analysis, documentation, and meeting support for the IAB review 
process, to include working with individual agencies to correct deficiencies identified during the 
deliberations of the IAB. The IAB’s recommendations will be forwarded to the National Continuity 
Coordinator for final review and approval. The approved PMEFs will be loaded into the Readiness 
Reporting System (RRS) which is managed and operated by FEMA. 

With a fuller picture of how the National Essential Functions (NEF) are supported the IAB will 
conduct a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to examine potential failure points in the PMEF to NEF 
linkage. If failures occur, then the potential impact can be quantified and possible alternatives or 
work-around solutions can be developed. FEMA will continue to support the IAB as Departments 
and Agencies identify potential points of failure and possible alternatives in their MEFs and PMEFs 
to ensure continued support to NEFs. 

 

 

FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work 
together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, 
recover from, and mitigate all hazards.