The DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) focuses on protecting the nation s critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR).
This theme will provide defense industrial base critical infrastructure and key resources owners/operators (small business through major corporations), their subcontractors, vendors, and other security partners with insightful information for implementing the critical infrastructure and national preparedness-resiliency concept with sustainable results.
DHS delivered the National Infrastructure Protection Plan last summer, two and a half years after a presidential directive called for the department to formulate a strategy to dearly define the responsibilities for federal, state, local governments and the private sector in protecting critical infrastructure and key resources.
You can read it in black and white: Section 7(c) of the Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) enunciates that it is United States policy "to enhance the protection of our Nation's critical infrastructure and key resources against terrorist acts that could.
The directorate will first assess the nation's critical infrastructure and key resources for vulnerabilities, then develop a comprehensive plan for securing both the infrastructure and resources from various means of attack.
ManTech International Corporation (Nasdaq:MANT) announced that it was awarded an Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide a full range of management support services to the nation's critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) program.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced earlier this year the completion of 17 sector-specific plans (SSPs) amending last year's National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Together the documents establish a risk-based approach to protecting the country's critical infrastructure and key resources and ensuring their resilience in the event of natural or man-made disasters.
