Joint Publication (JP) Classes Practice Test

Continuity planning in the DoD centers on making sure mission-essential functions keep operating no matter what happens. The Defense Continuity Program is the DoD-wide framework that encompasses the policies, plans, procedures, assets, and resources needed to sustain those functions across all hazards—crisis, attack, recovery, and reconstitution. MEFs are the critical operations whose continuity must be preserved; the program coordinates across services and agencies to provide alternative means, facilities, and processes so essential work can proceed even when normal operations are disrupted. The other options describe concepts that do not capture the DoD-wide continuity framework: a campaign is a war plan for objectives, a subordinate unified command is a command structure, and the chairman is a senior position.