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Office
of the Under
Secretary
of
Defense (Inteltigence)
Warfighter
Analysis and Integration
5000
Defense Pentagon,
Rm
3C281
Washington, DC
20301-5000
Date:
From:
Time:
Phone:
Fax:
Phone:703-695-1831
Unclassified Fax: 703-695-8215
Classified
Fax:
703-614-7687
Subject:
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UNCLASSIFIED
DoDCommentsonStaff StatementNo. 17
"Improvising
A
Homeland
Defense"
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ORG/REVIEWER
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Comments
JS
Statement:
"NORAD was, and is, responsible for the air defense
of
the
continental
United
States."
Recommendation:
Change
to
reacL/TQORAD
was,
and is,
responsible
for the air
defense
of
tHe
continental United States.
NORAD
has the dual
missioivof aerospace
warning and
aerospace control.
On
thexfay
of
9/11,
NORAD's
focus
was
out
ward-looking,
addressing
the threat of an external attackfrom
a
foreign
military
Rationale:
As
written, understates
the
NORAD mission,
and isalso
misleading
as it
does
not
note
the
threat
that
NORAD
was
tasked to address.
NORAD
Statement:
'They
assumed
the
fighter
escort would
be
discreet,vectored to a position
five
miles
direeuy behind the hijacked
aircraft,
where
it
could
perfornufsrnission."
Recommendation:
Chap£etoread,
"..
.where
itcould performits
mission
to
monitor
tbe
flight path
of the
aircraft."
Rationale:
Correctness. The statement as re-written more
correctly
defines
the
role
of
the
fighter
escort.
6/15/2004
4:3OPM
UNCLASSIFIED
1/11
 
UNCLASSIFIED
NORAD
Statement:
'The
nine minutes
notice..."
>
RecoiriknendatipHf^Add
wording
to
clarify
that notification
was
probablyVlpser to sixminutes consideringthephonewas
answecpd
x
aXp837
and the call
completed
at
0840.
\:
Completeness.
NORAD
11
Statement:
Tfae
communication
betweenJFAA and
NEADS that
followed
is
referenced
as
beginning
al^21
(reference
ID Op,
Channel
7, at
09f21:10,
NEADS^vSce
data
recording.)
Recommendation:
report
from
FAA."
:harfge
to
read,/At 9:22JXEADS
received
a
Rationale: curacy.
between
FAA and
NEAPS
>,
ChanneL4,
has
this communication
^ginning/at
09:22:24.
NORAD
12
Statement:
"The Mission Crew Commander (MCC)
at
NEADSissued
an
order
at
9:22:
Okay...sc/ambleLangley. Head
themtowards
the
Washington
DC arc
ecommendationNChange
to
read, "....issued
the
order
at
9:23:.^
Then
add
thefollowing statement:
"
That
order
was
processed
and
transmitted
fo
Langley at
9:24,
and
the
Langley
fighters
were airborne
ar
Rationale:
Accuracy.
The MCC
statement
was
made
at
09:22:32
according
to MCC Op, Ch 2,
NEADS voice data
recording.
6/15/2004
4:30
PM
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