Talk:National Program Office

power to dissolve congress
Who granted the NPO the "power to dissolve Congress"? I don't see mention of this in the United States Constitution. EdwinHJ | Talk 11:53, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

I concur. I'm removing that bit. If that were true, that would be equivalent to the president being able to do what he wanted, and subjugating congress, which the constitution doesn't allow. MarchHare (talk) 20:39, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If I may interject - its not so much that NPO would dissolve Congress. But after a nuclear conflict, it seems that NPO wouldn't bother to reconstitute Congress, instead going with the Presidental Support Successor System (P-S-cubed). The materials state that one of the three NPO teams would scatter into the 50 states and whomever survived would take over the running of the government. If D.C. was destroyed (which is likely), Congress would be decapitated and need to be reconstituted... but NPO would wait until the "right" time. Watch the CNN Special Report videos for a better explanation. Pbx-127 (talk) 05:05, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

This is correct. The PS3 battalions worked in 3 week cycles with one team always hot and and another on short recall. Anx satcom (talk) 02:00, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Mt. Pony
Concerning the article's assertion that Mt. Pony was associated with the NPO, please consider that the Mt. Pony facility was constructed over a decade (~1969) before the 1982 date claimed for NPO formation. I have no definitive explanations or dates, but suggest the Mt. Pony reference be reviewed for accuracy by someone more knowledgeable than myself. Possibly this preexisting facility could conceivably have been 'rolled into' the NPO, though this is only conjecture on my part as a means of reconciling the article's assertion with the much earlier construction date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.36.6 (talk) 02:48, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Reading through the declassified memos at the Reagan Library and the titles of the still-classified memos, the National Program Office did not "just appear." The group subsumed the Carter Administration's Presidential Directive 58 (PD 58) covering Continuity of Government and C3I. Specifically PD 58 established a "Joint Program Office":

A Joint Program Office will be established under the Secretary of Defense. It will work in close cooperation with the Director of FEMA to refine, develop, validate, and implement this {Continuity of Government} concept, responsive to the requirements of the Secretary of Defense and the Director of FEMA.

Since Mt. Pony was created during the Nixon Administration as a likely COG facility, it is not a far logic leap to see these COG facilities falling under NPO. Only the text of NSDD 55 will explain how JPO turned into NPO. Tdrssb (talk) 23:25, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

Source for citations
I've uploaded about 20 FOIA documents on Project 908 to the Internet Archive. Since the page needs citations and factual accuracy checks, the documents may provide a good source of information. FWIW, the files are at https://archive.org/details/Project908. --TheMikeBest (talk) 13:12, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

The CIA's FOIA CREST database also has a number of references about NPO. The Reagan Library still has NSDD 55 locked up tight. Tdrssb (talk) 23:19, 21 October 2020 (UTC)