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NCS Directives and Manuals

National Communications System programs are governed by a series of Issuances, Directives and Manuals in efforts to coordinate national security and emergency preparedness communications in accordance with Executive Order 12472. These documents are available below.

Some of the documents are currently in revision or in review. Updates to these documents will be posted as soon as possible.

Frequent Asked Questions on the NCS Issuance Program can be reviewed by following this link.

The majority of the documents are in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If you do not have Acrobat, you can obtain the Acrobat reader here.

	NCS Directive 1-1: Organization, Membership, and Administration National Communications System (NCS) Issuance System
		NCS Manual 1-1-1: Organization, Membership, and Administration Procedures and Format for NCS Issuances
	NCS Directive 1-2: Organization, Membership, and Administration National Communications System (NCS) Membership
		NCS Manual 1-2-1: Bylaws, National Communications System Committee of Principals
	NCS Directive 3-1: Telecommunications Operations Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) System for NS/EP
		NCS Manual 3-1-1: Telecommunications Operations Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) System for NS/EP - Service User Manual
		NCS Handbook 3-1-2: Telecommunications Operations Service Vendor Handbook for the Telecommunications Service Priority (TSP) Program

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