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from
EmpCommission Website
The
EMP Commission was established
pursuant to title XIV of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as enacted into law by
Public Law 106-398; 114 Stat. 1654A-345).
Duties of the EMP Commission include
assessing:
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1. the nature and magnitude of
potential high-altitude EMP threats to the United States
from all potentially hostile states or non-state actors that
have or could acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles
enabling them to perform a high-altitude EMP attack against
the United States within the next 15 years
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the vulnerability of United
States military and especially civilian systems to an EMP
attack, giving special attention to vulnerability of the
civilian infrastructure as a matter of emergency
preparedness
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the capability of the United
States to repair and recover from damage inflicted on United
States military and civilian systems by an EMP attack
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the feasibility and cost of
hardening select military and civilian systems against EMP
attack.
The Commission is charged with
identifying any steps it believes should be taken by the United
States to better protect its military and civilian systems from EMP
attack.
Multiple reports and briefings associated with this effort have been
produced by the EMP Commission including an
Executive Report and a
Critical National Infrastructures Report
describing findings and recommendations.
The EMP Commission was reestablished via the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2006 to continue its efforts
to monitor, investigate, make recommendations, and report to
Congress on the evolving threat to the United States from
electromagnetic pulse attack resulting from the detonation of a
nuclear weapon or weapons at high altitude.
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