Defending Critical Infrastructure

Abstract

We apply new bilevel and trilevel optimization models to make critical infrastructure more resilient against terrorist attacks. Each model features an intelligent attacker (terrorists) and a defender (us), information transparency, and sequential actions by attacker and defender. We illustrate with examples of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the US Border Patrol at Yuma, Arizona, and an electrical transmission system. We conclude by reporting insights gained from the modeling experience and many red-team exercises. Each exercise gathers open-source data on a real-world infrastructure system, develops an appropriate bilevel or trilevel model, and uses these to identify vulnerabilities in the system or to plan an optimal defense.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA486996

Entities

People

  • Gerald G. Brown
  • Javier Salmeron
  • Matthew Carlyle
  • R. Kevin Wood

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Business Administration
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Electric Power
  • Electrical Grids
  • Game Theory
  • Homeland Defense
  • Homeland Security
  • Infrastructure
  • Load Monitoring
  • Operations Research
  • Petroleum
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Supply Chain
  • United States
  • Zero-Sum Games

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Game Theory.