COOP for Executive Protection: The Continuity of Operations Framework Practitioners Are Missing

The article opens with a launch viewed from two places:

Consider two viewing points for the same launch.

That is the problem Nic Moretto takes up in “COOP for Executive Protection,” published on EP Wired, the executive protection magazine, in October 2026. The article carries federal Continuity of Operations doctrine into protective work and maps five requirements onto it: succession of protective authority, alternate locations and command posts, communications, HR continuity, and testing. You can read it here: “COOP for Executive Protection” on EP Wired.

Continuity and emergency preparedness are part of how we work. Our executive protection service puts the advance first, and the Continuity of Operations service carries the same thinking to organizations outside the detail.

This piece sits beside another of Nic’s EP Wired articles on how a detail is assembled before the principal moves. If you are responsible for a principal’s movement or an organization’s continuity, the article is worth your time at the link above.