will help improve agency plans and procedures to ensure that relevant authorities are documented and understood; and will enhance inter-agency communication and coordination procedures to ensure incidents are mitigated appropriately and in a timely manner. b. In the FY 2016 FISMA Guidance, OMB will require that all departments and agencies (not bureaus or components) designate one principal Security Operations Center (SOC), or equivalent organization to be accountable to agency leadership, DHS, and OMB for all incident response activities. Agencies will provide this information to US-CERT by November 13, 2015. c. Separately, within 3 months, OMB, in coordination with DHS, will provide agencies with best practices and use cases for Federal SOCs to ensure consistent roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures are employed by SOCs across the Federal Government. d. In the FY 2016 FISMA Guidance, OMB will require agencies to have a standing Federal Network Authorization with DHS to ensure DHS can rapidly deploy on-site resources to conduct incident response activities, when necessary. The authorization should be reviewed on a semi-annual basis and remain on file with DHS. e. The CSIP directs GSA, in coordination with OMB, to research contract vehicle options and develop a capability to deploy incident response services that can quickly be leveraged by Federal agencies, on a reimbursable basis. The incident response service will be managed by the contracting agency, in coordination with DHS and OMB. GSA will develop requirements and deliver a detailed implementation plan for this task to OMB within 3 months; then complete the acquisition process and deliver the final capability within 6 months. Page 16 of 21