National Infrastructure Protection Plan: Partnering to Enhance Protection and Resiliency

Abstract

Protecting and ensuring the resiliency of the critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) of the United States is essential to the Nation's security, public health and safety, economic vitality, and way of life. Attacks on CIKR could significantly disrupt the functioning of government and business alike and produce cascading effects far beyond the targeted sector and physical location of the incident. Direct terrorist attacks and natural, manmade, or technological hazards could produce catastrophic losses in terms of human casualties, property destruction, and economic effects, as well as profound damage to public morale and confidence. Attacks using components of the Nation's CIKR as weapons of mass destruction could have even more devastating physical and psychological consequences.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA502695

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Department of Homeland Security

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Counterterrorism
  • Cybersecurity
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Employment
  • Federal Budgets
  • Health Services
  • Information Systems
  • Interagency Coordination
  • International Organizations
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Security Personnel
  • Systems Engineering
  • Warning Systems

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