When national emergency response mechanisms falter, the breakdown rarely begins with crisis — it begins with fragmentation.

The structural handoff between federal authority and state/local execution is a known fault line, but few organizations run active diagnostics on how this discontinuity affects their operating continuity.

Mayfair’s sovereignty audit lens applies institutional stress tests to model friction points in U.S. emergency governance. From agency command conflict to communications breakdowns and asymmetric response protocols, this briefing charts the real-world consequences of dormant contingency frameworks.

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