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Critical Infrastructure

Last Updated: November 28, 2022 | Blog

S&T Makes Headway on Infrastructure Investment

S&T’s Critical Infrastructure Security & Resilience Research Program is tapping into the latest innovations in science and technology to address strategic CI needs.

Last Updated: November 22, 2022 | Publication

DHS Fact Sheet on National Security Memorandum-16

On November 10, President Biden signed National Security Memorandum-16 (NSM-16) on Strengthening the Security and Resilience of United States Food and Agriculture. The NSM assigns key roles to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) related to overall strategic guidance and enhancing national unity of effort

Last Updated: September 2, 2022 | Publication

Electromagnetic Pulse Shielding Mitigations Best Practice

This report is a collaborative effort between DHS S&T, FEMA's IPAWS Program, and CISA that summarizes recommendations that federal, state, and local agencies and private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators can employ to protect against the effects of an EMP event.

Last Updated: July 5, 2022 | Site Page

Critical Infrastructure Resilience

The Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T’s) Critical Infrastructure Resilience activities aim to improve understanding of the effects of EMP/GMD events on communications infrastructure and drive research activities to provide practical, data-driven, specific, and actionable information, concepts, techniques, technologies, and tools to critical infrastructure owners and operators to potentially mitigate the impact of and/or recover from EMP/GMD events. To address GPS vulnerabilities the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Program has a multi-pronged approach of conducting vulnerability and impact assessments, developing mitigations, exploring complementary timing technologies, and engaging with industry through outreach events and meetings. Through these sustained efforts, the goal of the program is to increase the resiliency of critical infrastructure to GPS vulnerabilities in the future.

Last Updated: June 16, 2022 | Publication

DHS Space Policy

Within the homeland security enterprise, space-based systems play a critical role in securing the homeland as DHS components and partners rely heavily on space systems to provide information and communications necessary for mission success. The DHS Space Policy guides component efforts internally and across the homeland security enterprise.

Last Updated: June 13, 2022 | Press Releases

S&T Publishes Resilient PNT Reference Architecture and Update to Conformance Framework

DHS S&T has published the Resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Reference Architecture.

Last Updated: June 9, 2022 | Publication

Resilient PNT Reference Architecture

The Resilient PNT Reference Architecture continues where the Conformance Framework left off by describing a concrete application of resilience concepts for a holistic approach to next-generation resilient PNT. It provides example implementations of resilience techniques as well as reference designs of architecture instances that align with the resilience levels within the Resilient PNT Conformance Framework.

Last Updated: June 6, 2022 | Publication

Critical Infrastructure Security & Resilience Research Fact Sheet

Critical Infrastructure (CI) consists of the physical and cyber systems and assets that are so vital to the United States that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on our physical or economic security or public health or safety. The nation's CI provides the essential services that underpin American society.

Last Updated: June 3, 2022 | Site Page

CISRR Program

The Critical Infrastructure Security & Resilience Research (CISRR) Program manages the broad range of related activities conducted throughout S&T to address critical infrastructure community needs with a whole-of-government approach.

Last Updated: May 24, 2022 | Press Releases

Feature Article: S&T Hackathon Addresses Emerging Threats to Critical Infrastructure

S&T recently partnered with one of its COEs to host a Hackathon that focused on addressing current critical infrastructure risks and related threats.