Continuity of Operations (COOP) Contingency Operations

Excerpt from FM 4-0 (Sustainment Operations): "During large-scale combat against peer threats, all friendly forces, including those conducting sustainment tasks, are in contact and under observation in the space and cyberspace domains, as well as the information environment. In light of potential adversaries' capabilities, Soldiers must be prepared to operate in denied, degraded, and disrupted communication environments. FM 6-99 includes standardized report and message formats. The formats in the field manual are for manual and voice use. The report and message formats help users prepare and manually transmit written and voice reports and messages. Each format provides an organized template to record, pass, and store information. Operations on the multi-domain battlefield will require Soldiers maintain the ability to operate in a contested cyber or space environment, without the use of enterprise systems. Sustainment organizations should maintain manual reporting skills and should also be prepared to use alternate methods of reporting such as, telephone, radio transmission, messenger, or hard copy."
Scenario Environment: You have been deployed to an austere combat environment where communications are denied, degraded, and disrupted. You are assigned to a Forward Support Company {FSC) as the Automotive Maintenance Warrant Officer and are responsible for supporting a Battalion. 90% ·of your maintenance personnel MTOE authorizations are filled and 100% of your tool/special tool MTOE authorizations are filled. You are able to print and use computers, but are unable to use GCSS-A, VSAT, cellular communications, telecommunications, or access the internet. You have all maintenance regulations, pamphlets, and technique. publications downloaded onto your computer. You also brought all of your Maintenance Support Devices {MSD) which were loaded with all applicable technical manuals prior to deploying.
Assignment: Write a continuity of operations plan {COOP) paper that details how you would conduct maintenance operations in the above scenario environment. At a minimum, you are required to address the forms and processes used to execute and track readiness reporting, work orders, dispatching, parts requisition and turn-in, recovery operations, and preventative maintenance checks and services (i.e. daily, weekly, monthly, annual) for generators, vehicles and weapons systems. The following general guidelines will be adhered to:
1. Papers will be graded IAW the "Writing Assignment Rubric" in Appendix G.
2 . .Do not quote directly from sites such as Wikipedia.
3. Use APA format to site all references and/or illustrations used. When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998), and a complete reference should appear in the reference page at the end of the paper. If you are referring to an idea from another work but are
not directly quoting the material, or making reference to an entire book, article or other work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication and not the page number in your in-text reference. All sources that are cited in the text must appear in the reference list at the end of the paper. Visit the following webpage for additional information:
https://owl(dot)purdue(dot)edu/owVresearch and citationlapa sMelapa fonnatting and style guide/in text citations the basics.html
4. Include a Reference page as the last page of your paper. At a minimum the reference page will need to provide the author, year of publication, title of
publication/web page/article/source/etc., and URL (if applicable). For example:
Corps, U.S. (2016, January). The Strategic Vision of the United States Ordnance Corps: Maintain, Arm, Protect the Future Force.
https:1/goordnance.army .mil/documents/od _strategic_ vision jan2016.pdf.
5. Use Ariel 11 or 12 Point Font.
6. Writing assignments will be turned-in to your instructor NL T 10 working days prior to the last official day of WOAC, phase 1.