Prioritizing Infrastructure

The energy sector is characterized by large networks as opposed to discrete assets. These networks are designed to operate with certain levels of reliability, even if portions of them (discrete components, or assets) are out of service. The importance of many of the individual components in the network is highly variable, depending upon the location, time of day, day of the week, month of the year, and many other variables. What might be a critical asset on a Monday morning in January may not be critical on a Saturday afternoon in May. 

Owners and operators of energy sector assets and networks have screening processes to identify internal priorities related to business conditions and supply and 

The cornerstone of the overall strategy is partnership with all key stakeholders in the public and private sectors. This approach will continue to take full advantage of the extensive experience and expertise of sector partners and will ensure that repercussions of planned activities are carefully considered. This chapter outlines the methods that energy sector partners will use to assess, select, and implement cost-effective infrastructure protective programs, and it highlights some of the existing cooperative efforts within the energy sector. 

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HSPD -7 Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization, and Protection. Establishes a national policy for federal departments and agencies to identify and prioritize critical U.S. infrastructure and key resources and to protect them from terrorist attacks. 

The socioeconomic gap between rich and poor nations will grow unless the gap in R D capacity is reduced. Rich countries spend 0.2 per cent of their large GDP on health research countries like Brazil, Mexico, and India spend 0.05 per cent the poorest nations spend an even smaller percentage of tiny economies (GFHR 2001). Rich nations have 2-4 R D scientists per 1,000 citizens poor countries have 0.1-0.3 per 1,000 (UNESCO 1996). Developing countries need research institutions, professionals who prioritize their needs, and the ability to focus research on local needs. These Infrastructures must have stable core budgets research and venture capital the capacity... 

Successful interventions require rapid assessment by health care providers to determine where the breakdown in the public health infrastructure occurred and to identify and prioritize the health needs of the population. All immediate and potential health hazards must be identified. Outbreak management can quickly become disaster management if the number of patients exceeds the capability and resources of the responders (Moralejo, Russell, Porat, 1997). 

HSPD-7—Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7, Critical Infrastructure, Identification, Prioritization, and Protection. HSPD-7 identifies and prioritizes critical infrastructure and key... 

The application of an effective risk assessment has been conducted in rockfall hazardous areas induced by earthquake, such as the Du-Wen Highway which is located in the area affected by the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008. It tries to answer the question how safe is the highway . It provides highway users and managers with insights into the estimation of the risks to lives, infrastructure damage and operational risk due to the rockfall events. It also can help prioritize the risk sites for defensive measures and risk-management plans. 

The information on assets and infrastructure identification will help stakeholders begin to identify and prioritize a school s critical assets and infrastructure. This component must be undertaken in an effort to identify the appropriate mitigation strategies of the facility or complex. In relation to this, the threat and hazard assessment will focus on potential school threats and hazards while emphasizing the need for situational awareness of incidents both in the complex and the surrounding community. Both assessments will prepare the team for the execution of the vulnerability assessment. 

To assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its efforts to secure the Nation s infrastructure and economy against terrorist attack and other catastrophic loss, the NRC wiU ejtamine the public health, economic, and national security importance to the United States of key chemicals and chemical processes. A systems analysis perspective will be utilized to surest a methodology to prioritize risk, identify scenarios of concern, and determine investments intended to enhance the long-term stability of the Nation s chemical infrastructure. Within resources and information available, this review wiU ... 

HSPD 7 Homeland Security Presidential Directive that addresses critical infrastructure, identification, prioritization, and protection... 

Office, U.S.GA., 2005. GAO Report to Congressianal Requesters, RISK MANAGEMENT Further Refinement Needed to Assess Risks and Prioritize Protective Measures at Ports and Other Critical Infrastructure. 

Some DHS, DOE, and other government programs need to allocate resources based on their prioritization (e.g., the DHS s Buffer Zone Protection Program), site assistance visits and comprehensive reviews, as well as state and local initiatives. These programs supplement and support industry efforts. State and local efforts under the NIPP will be based on some measure of the relative importance, risk consequence, and vulnerability of the critical infrastructures within their jurisdictions. This will require that they work with the energy sectors in their jurisdictions so as to understand the importance of critical facilities. In addition, they will need to address... 

As noted by Metke and Ekl (2010), This vnlnerability was considered snch a potential risk that the U.S. government identified it as core element of legislation following the New York terrorist attacks of 2011. The need for critical infrastructure protection was first mandated by the Patriot Act of 2001 (Section 1016, the Critical Infrastrnctnre Act of 2001). In 2003, Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 7 established the national policy reqniring federal departments and agencies to identify and prioritize United States Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) and to protect them from terrorist attacks. ... 

The project SEMB analysed the threat potential which lEMI (intentional electromagnetic interference) poses to Cl in Austria. The non-classified study analysed freely available literature on respective events, available lEMI weapons and their cost, and the state of the art with respect to technical protective measures. In addition, an appropriate risk analysis method was developed, which was intended to support Cl providers in judging where in the infrastructure to prioritize improvements of protective measures. This paper describes the selection and adaptation of the risk analysis method, explains the effort-saving way of data capturing and shows how the risk assessment results are presented. Finally, some of the results are shown, which were obtained in the verification of the method on the basis of three vehicle convoy scenarios. The conclusions comprise a judgment on the benefit of the method and an outlook on further research planned. 

Lifeline infrastructure failures threaten school attendance Vulnerabilities in roads, bridges, and transportation systems must be prioritized when school attendance is threatened. 

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