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ix EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COMMANDER’S OVERVIEW • Provides an overview of defense support of civil authorities. • Describes the fundamentals of response. • Discusses the all hazards scope of defense support of civil authorities. • Describes the federal role in supporting a comprehensive all hazards response. • Discusses when and how federal forces may provide support to federal, state, territory, tribal, insular areas, and local law enforcement organizations reacting to civil disturbances, conducting border security and counterdrug missions, preparing for antiterrorism operations, and participating in other related law enforcement activities. • Describes Department of Defense support to national special security events, community support activities, sensitive support operations, military training exchanges, and other specialized support. • Discusses planning to support and sustain defense support of civil authorities, to include personnel services, intelligence support, meteorological support, logistics, public affairs, health services, mortuary affairs, cyberspace support, and other support and sustainment considerations. Overview Defense Support of Civil Authorities Defense support of civil authorities (DSCA) is support provided by federal military forces; Department of Defense (DOD) civilians; DOD contract personnel; and DOD component assets, to include National Guard (NG) forces (when the Secretary of Defense [SecDef], in coordination with the governors of the affected states, elects and requests to use and fund those forces in Title 32, United States Code [USC], status), in response to a request for assistance (RFA) from civil authorities for domestic emergencies, cyberspace incident response, law enforcement support, and other domestic activities or from qualifying entities for special events. DSCA includes support to prepare, prevent, protect, respond, and recover from domestic incidents. DSCA is provided in response to requests from civil authorities and upon approval from