American Infrastructure Report

ASCE s Infrastructure Report Card for America s Infrastructure http //www.infrastructur-ereportcard.org/ (accessed March 24, 2011). Since 1988, the American Society of Civil Engineers has been evaluating the state of infrastructure in the United States. These report cards cover such areas as bridges, dams, drinking water, levees, railways, and roads. Summaries of these report cards are available online. 

Public information about infrastructures and control systems is available to potential hackers and intruders. The availability of this infrastructure and vulnerability data was demonstrated by a university graduate student, whose dissertation reportedly mapped every business and industrial sector in the American economy to the fiber-... 

ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers). 2001. The 2001 Report Card for America s Infrastructure. Available online at . 

The recent American Institute of Medicine report (lOM 2003) calls for a renewed effort to rebuild the public health infrastructure needed to conduct disease surveillance and oversee vector control programs in the United States. It also calls for training and for research that will provide ... 

Major structural failures in recent years have brought the public s attention to the urgent need for improved infrastructure mrMiitoring and maintenance. In their latest report card for America s infrastructure (American Society of Civil Engineers 2(X)9), the American Society of Civil... 

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