National Infrastructure Protection Plan
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The National Infrastructure Protection Plan is a document called for by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7, which aims to unify Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource (CIKR) protection efforts across the country. The latest version of the plan is 188 pages long and was released in January 2009. The NIPP's goals are to protect critical infrastructure and key resources and ensure resiliency. It is generally considered unwieldy and not an actual plan to be carried out in an emergency, but it is useful as a mechanism for developing coordination between government and the private sector. The NIPP is based on the model laid out in the 1998 Presidential Decision Directive-23, which identified critical sectors of the economy and tasked relevant government agencies to work with them on sharing information and on strengthening responses to attack.
The NIPP is structured to create partnerships between Government Coordinating Councils(GCC) from the public sector and Sector Coordinating Councils(SCC) from the private sector for the eighteen sectors DHS has identified as critical.
Government Coordinating Councils: Department of Agriculture Department of Health and Human Services Department of Defense Department of Energy Department of Health and Human Services Department of the Interior Department of the Treasury Environmental Protection Agency DHS-Office of Infrastructure Protection DHS-Office of Cyber Security and Telecommunications DHS-Transport Security Administration DHS-Transport Security Administration U.S. Coast Guard Immigration and Customs Enforcement Federal Protective Service
Sector Coordinating Councils Agriculture and Food Defense Industrial Base Energy Public Health and Healthcare National Monuments and Icons Financial Services Drinking Water and Water Treatment Systems Chemical Commercial Facilities Dams Emergency Services Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste Information Technology Communications Postal and Shipping Transportation Systems Government Facilities
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