“Pursuant to NSPD-51/HSPD-20 [May 4, 2007], and in accordance with the National Continuity Policy Implementation Plan, the President directs the executive branch to reorient itself and to utilize an integrated, overlapping national continuity concept to ensure the preservation of our Government and the continuing performance of essential functions. Continuity responsibility and planning should not be a separate and compartmentalized function performed by independent cells of a few planners in each agency. It must be fully integrated into all aspects of an organization’s daily operations thus creating a ‘culture of continuity’”. (DHS/FEMA, Federal Continuity Directive 1, November 2007, p. 3)