Defense Critical Infrastructure

Defense Critical Infrastructure
Author: Davi M. D'Agostino
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437911420

The DoD relies on a global network of DoD and non-DoD infrastructure so critical that its unavailability could have a debilitating effect on DoD's ability to project, support, and sustain its forces and operations worldwide. DoD established the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) to assure the availability of mission-critical infrastructure. This report evaluates the extent to which DoD has: (1) incorporated aspects of DCIP into its exercises in the Transportation Defense Sector; and (2) developed DCIP training standards departmentwide and made installation personnel aware of existing DCIP expertise. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.

Defense Critical Infrastructure: Developing Training Standards and an Awareness of Existing Expertise Would Help DOD Assure the Availability of Critical Infrastructure

Defense Critical Infrastructure: Developing Training Standards and an Awareness of Existing Expertise Would Help DOD Assure the Availability of Critical Infrastructure
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Total Pages: 28
Release: 2008
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The Department of Defense (DoD) relies on a global network of DoD and non-DoD infrastructure so critical that its unavailability could have a debilitating effect on DoD's ability to project, support, and sustain its forces and operations worldwide. DoD established the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) to assure the availability of mission-critical infrastructure. GAO was asked to evaluate the extent to which DoD has done the following: (1) incorporated aspects of DCIP into its exercises in the Transportation Defense Sector, and (2) developed DCIP training standards department-wide and made installation personnel aware of existing DCIP expertise. GAO examined a nonprojectable sample of 46 critical assets representing the four military services, five combatant commands, and selected installations within five defense sectors. GAO reviewed relevant DoD DCIP guidance and documents and interviewed cognizant officials regarding DCIP exercises, training, and awareness. GAO recommends that DoD do the following: (1) develop department-wide DCIP training standards and an implementation time frame, and (2) develop an effective means to communicate to installation personnel the existence and availability of DCIP expertise at the combatant command and military service levels. DoD concurred with both recommendations.

Defense Critical Infrastructure

Defense Critical Infrastructure
Author: United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-01-14
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ISBN: 9781983850172

Defense Critical Infrastructure: Developing Training Standards and an Awareness of Existing Expertise Would Help DOD Assure the Availability of Critical Infrastructure

Defense Critical Infrastructure

Defense Critical Infrastructure
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2013-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781289161514

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Defense Critical Infrastructure

Defense Critical Infrastructure
Author: Davi M. D'Agostino
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2009-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437908950

The Dept. of Defense (DoD) established the Defense Critical Infrastructure Program (DCIP) to assure the availability of mission-critical infrastructure, including surface, sea, and air transportation assets to carry out its missions. This report evaluates: (1) the extent to which the U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) has identified, prioritized, and assessed critical transportation assets; (2) the extent to which DoD installation personnel have taken actions to help assure the availability of critical transportation assets, both within and independent of DCIP; and (3) how DoD is funding critical transportation asset assurance. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.

Defense Critical Infrastructure

Defense Critical Infrastructure
Author: Davi M. D'Agostino
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2010-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1437920942

DoD relies on a global network of defense critical infrastructure (DCI) so essential that the incapacitation or destruction of an asset within this network could severely affect DoD's ability to support its forces worldwide. To identify and help assure the availability of this DCI, in Aug. 2005 DoD established the DCI Program (DCIP). The military services are to identify and place their critical assets into prioritized tiers, incl. Tier 1 Task Critical Assets, which are assets of such importance that their destruction would have a serious effect on the ability of one or more military services to execute their essential tasks. In May 2008, Congress directed a review of DCIP. This report reviews the assurance of electrical power supplies to DoD's critical assets. Illustrations.

Critical Infrastructure Protection

Critical Infrastructure Protection
Author: Stephen L. Caldwell
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2011-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1437931839

According to the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS), there are thousands of facilities in the U.S. that if destroyed by a disaster could cause casualties, econ. losses, or disruptions to national security. DHS issued the Nat. Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) in June 2006 to provide the approach for integrating the nation's critical infrastructure and key resources. This report studied DHS's Jan. 2009 revisions to the NIPP in light of a debate over whether DHS has emphasized protection rather than resilience. The report discusses: (1) how the 2009 NIPP changed compared to the 2006 NIPP; and (2) how DHS addressed resiliency as part of their planning efforts. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.

Defense Critical Infrastructure

Defense Critical Infrastructure
Author: Davi M. D'Agostino
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2011
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 143792459X

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. DoD relies overwhelmingly on commercial electrical power grids for secure, uninterrupted electrical power supplies to support its critical assets and is the single largest consumer of energy in the U.S. In 2008, it was reported that "[c]ritical national security and homeland defense missions are at an unacceptably high risk of extended outage from failure of the grid". Commercial electrical power grids have become increasingly fragile and vulnerable to extended disruptions that could severely impact DoD's critical assets. This report addresses these issues and argues that with more detailed knowledge of the assets' risks and vulnerabilities to electrical power disruptions, DoD can better avoid compromising crucial DoD-wide missions during electrical power disruptions.