This week, TSA began contacting each employee who has NOT yet undergone the COG program, and ordered them to "do so immediately."

The Continuity of Government program exists so that government operations can continue even though some massive disaster, catastrophe, or attack, has taken out most government functions. the "Devolution" aspect of COG is that important decisions no longer MUST be made by Washington. Regions can make their own decisions. Authority devolves to lower levels when the upper levels are either cut-off, or destroyed.

It is sort of a Doomsday Plan to try to keep a government running even when much of it - or much of the country - has been destroyed.