National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER)
National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER) :
Created by Executive Order 10660: Providing for the Establishment of a National Defense Executive Reserve. (White House, 15 Feb1956) "NDER is a Government-wide program which recruits business executives and other civilians to serve the Government in key executive positions during national emergencies. According to FEMA, NDER is important to Federal emergency preparedness because of the tremendous increase in Government regulation and direction of the economy and vital resources that would accompany a war emergency. This would create the need to augment the staffs of Federal agencies having emergency functions. FEMA administers and evaluates the NDER program. GAO reports issued in 1978 and 1982 noted that this program had not been very effective" (GAO, NDER Program, Feb 1983, 3)
