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The Critical Infrastructures Protection Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c (e)) (GPO 2010) defines critical infrastructure as “systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters.”
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS 2019a) defines the defense industrial base sector as “the worldwide industrial complex that enables research and development, as well as design, production, delivery, and maintenance of military weapons systems, subsystems, and components or parts, to meet US military requirements.” This sector is one of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors vital to the United States.
Introduction
Former US President Barack Obama issued the Presidential Policy Directive PPD-21 in Feb 2013 (PPD-21 2013). The subject of the directive was critical...
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Further Readings
Baggett, R. K., & Simpkins, B. K. (2018). Homeland security and critical infrastructure protection (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International.
Lewis, T. (2014). Critical infrastructure protection in homeland security: Defending a networked nation (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
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S. V., N., Bhushan, N. (2020). Critical Infrastructure: Defense Industrial Base Sector. In: Shapiro, L., Maras, MH. (eds) Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69891-5_123-1
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