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National Strategies and Structures for Infrastructure Protection
The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection has been tasked to provide a better understanding of this national problem and offer a strategy for addressing it. This report summarizes work performed by the Institute for Defense Analyses in support of the Commission. This work has focused on developing federal government strategies and structures for meeting the threat of attacks on the U.S. infrastructure, particularly attacks employing cyber technologies.
United States. Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
1997
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U. S. Infrastructure Assurance Prosperity Game(TM) Final Report
Sandia national Laboratories, with Prosperity Institute, designed the US Infrastructure Assurance Prosperity Games to identify and assess strategy options for increasing the surety and security of the nation's critical infrastructures. This report details the results identified by the participants of the two Prosperity Games executed for that purpose.
United States. Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
1997
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, gave a speech at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Deputy Wolfowitz talked about the threat of terrorism. Deputy Wolfowitz explained the tragedy of September 11, 2001 was as grave a threat to human security as World War II and the Soviet Union. Deputy Wolfowitz believes that the United States must fight terrorism with the same resolve that we fought the other two major threats to modern history, World War II and the Cold War.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-02-19
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Fletcher Conference
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, gave a speech at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Deputy Wolfowitz talked about the attacks of September 11, 2001. He explained our response and that it was going to be swift and over-whelming. The Deputy offered insight to the campaign in Afghanistan and why it was so important and that we were winning and would continue to win.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2001-11-14
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American Jewish Congress
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz delivered a speech to the American Jewish Congress on America's determination to fight international terrorism. Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz makes very clear that we did not ask for this war but that we will do whatever it takes to win. He also tells his audience that instead of taking out just individuals he was going to "drain the whole swamp".
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2001-10-22
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Center for Security Policy 'Keeper of the Flame' Award Dinner
Secertary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld presented the Keeper of the Flame award at the center for security policy. The award was presented to Jim Schlessinger who was the Director of Central
Intelligence, Secretary of Energy, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. For Mr. Schlessinger's service he is the "true Keeper of
the Flame".
United States. Department of Defense
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
2001-11-06
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Veterans' Day
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave remarks on Veterans Day honoring those brave men. Deputy Wolfowitz made many references to the war on terror and how our men and women in uniform would again prevail. Deputy Wolfowitz made reference to Winston Churchill; Churchill had written in his diary that some of his country men thought we were weak and fearful. Churchill went on to write "the United States is like 'a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate."
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2001-11-11
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Threats to the US Electric Power Infrastructure: October 1999-October 2000
This presentation covers issues relating to possible threats against the electrical power infrastructure in the United States. The growing worldwide cyber threat can target the Internet-connected computer system of a major electrical power company and wreak havoc. Moreover, as a result of an increase in worldwide connectivity, hackers can exploit systems at fewer dollars: One company received approximately 230,000 unauthorized attempts in one month, of which over 80,000 originated from China. The impact resulted in blocked and logged messages by the company's firewall. The potential adversaries include hackers, criminals, insiders, economic competitors, terrorists, and nation states.
National Infrastructure Protection Center (U.S.)
1999-10
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New Kind of War
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech that was published in the New York Times September 27, 2001. In his speech, the secretary gave the first outline of how this war might be fought and with whom.
United States. Department of Defense
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
2001-09-27
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National Guard and Reserve Component Caucus Breakfast
As the recent phase of the campaign in Afghanistan demonstrates so clearly, our work in this war on terrorism is far from over. Even in Afghanistan we have a lot of work to do, a lot of difficult, dangerous work. And history has long proven, and as we have seen this past weekend, half-defeated and desperate enemies continue to pose considerable dangers and risk to our troops. We've seen some of the fiercest fighting so far in the last few days rooting out hard core al Qaeda members holed up in the remote mountains of Eastern Afghanistan. The Americans who have been killed in this action speak volumes about the sacrifices that our young men and women are called upon and are willing to make in defense of freedom---as do all the brave Americans who have been injured or given their lives in the cause of freedom, and as the President said the other day, "to make sure that our country is safe from future attack." We not only have delivered enormous numbers of supplies, through the success of our campaign on the ground, we've established a secure environment in which international relief organizations are now able to work.
But it's a fact that we couldn't do what we have done in this campaign against terrorism so far and what we will have to continue to do for some time to come without our citizen-soldiers.Next Monday marks six months since the attack of September 11th and in these past months Americans have come to appreciate more fully just how vital our Guard and Reserve are to our country's security. In Operation Enduring Freedom, the war overseas on terrorism, we have today over 91,000 service members from the Reserve Component taking part in Operation Enduring Freedom and what we call the operation here to protect the skies over the United States, Operation Noble Eagle, as well as all of our other operations. They are contributing major pieces of significant parts of the operation: 50 percent of the force protection for our bases and installations around the world and here at home is provided by Guardsmen and Reservists; 25 percent of warfighting support; and 25 percent of command and control, communications, intelligence and mobilization support. The willingness of Americans to come forward and serve our country and the willingness of the members of our Guard and Reserve to serve on active duty has been remarkable and heartwarming, and I would add that the employer support so far has been strong.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-03-06
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FEMA Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Incident Support Team (IST) in Federal Disaster Operations: Operations Manual
This document is a level 2 SOP or operations manual: a complete reference document detailing the procedures for performing a single function (Standard Operating Procedure), or a number of interdependent functions (Ops Manual). This Operations Manual has been prepared to guide Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel perform Federal disaster response operations during major disasters or emergencies. The National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Incident Support Team (IST) provides a group of highly qualified specialists readily available for rapid assembly and deployment to a disaster area. The IST furnishes Federal, State, and local officials with technical assistance in acquiring and using US&R resources. It provides advice, incident command assistance, management and coordination of US&R task forces, and US&R logistics support. The IST methods of operation, organization, position descriptions, qualifications, operational checklists, equipment, rostering guidelines, and preparedness activities are described in this document.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
2000-01
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Emergency Support Function #9: Urban Search and Rescue Annex
Emergency Support Function (ESF) #9 -- Urban Search and Rescue rapidly deploys components of the National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System to provide specialized lifesaving assistance to State and local authorities in the event of a major disaster or emergency. US&R operational activities include locating, extricating, and providing on-site medical treatment to victims trapped in collapsed structures.
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency
1999-04
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Report to Congress: Aviation Security Aircraft Hardening Program
The feasibility of blast-resistant baggage has been demonstrated under the prototype effort and subsequent FAA solicitation resulting in the successful testing and certification of a unit developed by private industry. This unit is capable of mitigating an explosive threat in excess of the current explosives detection system certification criteria. The development of hardened container design criteria has been completed, resultinig in a draft specification for LD-3-type hardened baggage containers. This draft specification provides a vehicle by which the FAA could mandate the use of hardened containers if the are proven to be operationally viable and ensure that these containers wil meet or exceed required blast resistance and airworthiness requirements. Protype containers will continue to be developed and tested in order to refine existing design requirements and address airline operational isssues. Analysis of the operational considerations is being initiated. This includes assessing those factors with which the airlines are most concerned; i.e., container cost, tare weight, repair, operability, and maintainability. This analysis will ensure that specifications for a hardened container can meet a reasonable life-cycle cost. Further work with industry will help ensure that the existing specification is appropriate.
United States. Federal Aviation Administration
1998-12
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Credentialing Project Technical Architecture: Presented to Transportation Industry Association Stakeholder Meetings April 11-29, 2002
The agenda for this presentation for the TWIC is as follows: Overview of High Level Architecture Vision; Components of Architecture: Technical, Business Process; Key Issues; and Discussion. Various charts and graphs are included in this presentation for key areas of interest.
United States. Transportation Security Administration
2002
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U.S. General Services Administration: Making Federal Buildings Safe
This card provides tips and guidance on ways to make your Federal buildings a safer place.
Employees should increase awareness of any suspicious activity and report concerns to the
appropriate security and law enforcement personnel. The better we prepare ourselves to respond to emergencies, the better we will be able to care for ourselves and our customers in the event of a real threat or act of violence.
United States. General Services Administration
2000
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Registered Traveler Program (RTP) Manager Briefing: Card Tech / Secure Tech (December 9, 2002)
This briefing gives an overview regarding registered traveler: Establish requirements to implement passenger programs and use available technologies to expedite the security screening of
passengers who participate in such programs, thereby allowing security screening personnel to focus on those passengers who should be subject to more extensive screening. The initial focus of the Registered Traveler Program will be on air
travelers, but will be designed for possible expansion to other modes.
United States. Transportation Security Administration
2002-12-09
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S. Hrg. 106-245: Iran: Limits to Rapprochement: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, July 22, 1999
S. HRG. 106-245: Testimony addresses what is taking place in Iran, what the U.S. policy toward Iran should be in light of these circumstances, what we have seen in recent history, and what we have seen of elections and failed promises from those elections in Iran. Statements, letters, and material submitted for the record include those of the following: Jerrold D. Green, L. Bruce Laingen, and Azar Nafisi.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
1999
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Infrastructure Protection Solutions Catalog: A 'Legal Foundations' Study: Report 5 of 12: Report to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
In early 1997, the requirement arose in the President's Commission for Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP) for maintaining a running catalog of ideas relating to potential solutions for infrastructure protection. In assembling this catalog, we relied heavily on the work of other bodies that preceded the President's Commission. The Infrastructure Protection Solutions Catalog embodied those preliminary efforts and was maintained through March 1997, the time at which the Commission began to formulate its own potential recommendations. It is a compendium of prior recommendations made by informed individuals, study commissions, and other groups who have weighed in on issues related to infrastructure assurance. Possible solutions are arranged within broad solution categories. Within each category is a general description of its scope and an "external considerations" section. External considerations are specific solution-related ideas, proposals or recommendations that came to our attention by way of the papers and briefings referenced in the Bibliography to this document. These efforts led to the development of another "Solutions Catalog" used during the U.S. Infrastructure Assurance Prosperity Game and Planning Event Number 2, held on March 23-25, 1997 in Chantilly, Virginia. The event was sponsored by the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, the National Communications System and the Department of Energy, and was produced by Sandia National Laboratories and the Prosperity Institute. This catalog is also included here in Appendix A, as it appeared in gaming materials, to demonstrate the full range of solution ideas that were brought to the attention of the PCCIP to inform its deliberations
United States. President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
1997
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Federal Structures for Infrastructure Protection
The options described in an earlier IDA paper called for the creation of a new federal leadership body for protecting the economic infrastructure. The Proposed body would lead or coordinate activities across the federal government in each of the five capability areas needed for infrastructure protection. These are strategy and policy formulation, prevention and mitigation, operational warning, consequence management and recovery, and counter-action. This paper examines alternative ways of sharing responsibilities between and among such a new structure for infrastructure protection and existing structures responsible for related activities.
United States. Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
1997
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Information Sharing Models: A 'Legal Foundations' Special Study: Report to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
The following discussion describes and analyzes various approaches to information sharing. Each of the approaches, or models, reflects methods adopted by Federal and state government entities and, in many cases, private companies and institutions. This discussion is divided into two parts. The first part is a discussion of five basic models of information acquisition and dissemination. Where appropriate and useful, bullet points showing "stovepipes" and "filters" are inserted into the text. The second part of this paper is a more thorough discussion of key cross-model issues, such as national security, business proprietary matters, antitrust, and liability for disclosure/failure to disclose. These applications illustrate regimes that both thwart and encourage information sharing across critical infrastructures.
United States. President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
1997
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Incentives to Encourage Infrastructure Assurance Investments
When the Federal government and the private sector begin building the various public-private partnerships the commission feels are necessary to assure the availability of critical infrastructures, the range and scope of financial incentives will become important items to be negotiated. The Commission found that 95 percent of the critical infrastructures themselves are owned by entities other than the Federal government, and it is natural to assume that they will be expected to pick up the large majority of the costs for maintaining and assuring access to these infrastructures. A significant problem with paying for the necessary steps to protect the critical infrastructures is based on a historical paradox of economics called the "tragedy of the commons" in which no particular person or entity has a direct interest (or responsibility) for bearing the costs of the common good (common welfare, common defense, etc.) but in which all persons or entities suffer if these costs are not borne. With the inter-dependencies between and among the critical infrastructures themselves, the danger is even more acute because a failure in one can cascade into losses which affect many owners and operators and their customers.
United States. Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
1997
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Defense Department Town Hall Meeting With Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld gave a speech at the pentagon which was followed by a Question and Answer session. The Secretary answered questions from people at the Pentagon about the War on Terrorism. Some sample questions include: what are we and our coalition partners doing to seal off the Pakistani and the Iranian border from allowing pro-Taliban and al Qaeda fighters to infiltrate into Afghanistan to join up with the guerrilla forces? Others include: how does the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians impact our war on terrorism, and what role do you see the United States playing in solving that conflict?
United States. Department of Defense
2002-03-07
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Bridging the Dangerous Gap between the West and the Muslim World
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave a speech on how best to bridge the gap between the West and the Muslim World. Deputy Wolfowitz said "We hear and read a lot today about the clash of cultures, or what Samuel Huntington called the clash of civilizations. Today, I would like to take a moment to go beyond the headlines--both to get some altitude and to look a bit deeper at what I believe is less a clash of cultures than a collision of misunderstanding between the Muslim and Western worlds.
My view on the subject of East and West, one that has been shaped by personal experience, is decidedly optimistic. But, that does not mean I am not a realist, or that I can't see the stark truth that confronts us today: There is a dangerous gap between the West and the Muslim world. We must bridge this gap, and we must begin now--the gap is wide and there is no time for delay. Whether we are successful in narrowing the critical divide between East and West will be a major factor in shaping the future.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-05-03
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Gridiron Luncheon
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz gave a speech at the Gannett/USA Today Headquarters. Deputy Wolfowitz said "During this critical time in our nation's history, the men and women of the press, in very great measure, give all Americans objective and unbiased reporting. They work long hours and put themselves in harm's way to tell important stories. They help to keep us and the bureaucracies that work for us, or are supposed to work for us, honest. And one of the most important stories they are telling is the story about our brave men and women who serve this country so nobly and so well, and we appreciate everything that the media is doing to tell that story."
United States. Department of Defense
2002-03-09
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San Francisco World Affairs Council
General Counsel of the Department of Defense, William J. Haynes II gave a speech to the World Affairs Council concerning the Bush Administration's approach to foreign policy and international security: that it is unilateralist and dismissive of the role of our allies and international institutions. General Counsel Haynes said "It is a critique more often heard abroad than in America, and much less frequently heard after September 11--when America assembled the most diverse coalition in history to make war on terrorism, and mobilized all the institutions of the international community to undergird that effort. Nevertheless it remains a subtext of a running commentary by critics of our foreign and defense policy, and deserves to be addressed head-on. Let me start with the so-called Rome Statute as the first case in point.
United States. Department of Defense
Haynes, William J.
2002-05-30
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Speech By Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy to the American Jewish Committee
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas J. Feith gave a speech to the American Jewish Committee concerning the war on Terrorism. Under Secretary Feith said "I'd like to talk with you about the war on terrorism - to discuss the progress of the war and share some thoughts about its nature, our objectives and our strategy. Our enemy in the war on terrorism is not a state or a group of states. Our enemy is not organized as a conventional military force. We cannot define victory as the conquering and subduing of a particular piece of territory or a people. We cannot expect that our own territory will be spared major damage so long as our armed forces remain undefeated. This is indeed a most unusual war - different from any that we fought in the past. We're fighting not a nation but a terrorist network - one might even say a network of networks, an amorphous structure present in many countries, including those of our allies, and in the United States itself. So it's a complicated struggle on multiple fronts. And we can't rely on conventional armed power to the extent we relied on such means in past wars. That's why administration officials so often stress that we must bring to bear the full range of instruments of US national power, including intelligence, financial, diplomatic and, not least, moral, as well as military tools. Fundamental to our strategy is the recognition that we can't just defend ourselves at our own borders. We have no choice but to take the offensive".
United States. Department of Defense
Feith, Douglas J.
2002-05-08
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Adequacy of Criminal Law and Procedure (Physical): A 'Legal Foundations' Study: Report 8 of 12: Report to the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
This paper examines the adequacy of current criminal law to provide protection for the nation's critical infrastructures from physical attack. It also addresses the adequacy of criminal law to deter or punish attacks on infrastructures, how it might be amended, revised, or supplemented to close the gap.
United States. President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
1997
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DoD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff--Bureaucracy to Battlefield
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon in which he described Pentagon bureaucracy as an enemy of the United States. The Secretary says the "challenge is to transform not just the way we deter and defend, but the way we conduct our daily business". The secretary describes the need for this change because "the world has--and we have not yet changed sufficiently. The clearest and most important transformation is from a bipolar Cold War world where threats were visible and predictable, to one in which they arise from multiple sources, most of which are difficult to anticipate, and many of which are impossible even to know today."
United States. Department of Defense
Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-
2001-09-10
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American Primacy and Major Power Concert: A Critique of the 2002 National Security Strategy
The Bush administration's National Security Strategy of 2002 has attracted attention and debate largely because of its arguments about the role of preemption. But over the longer term the strategy may prove far more significant in terms of its vision for relations with Russia, China, and the other major powers. As Condoleezza Rice has argued in describing the thinking behind the strategy, "we have an historic opportunity to
break the destructive pattern of great power rivalry that has bedeviled the world since the
rise of the nation state in the 17th century." This is a bold vision. It extends the notion of
transformation from defense strategy to geopolitics. But is it viable? What is required to
achieve this ambition? The opportunity is real - this is the conclusion from an informal dialogue among analysts and policymakers from the five permanent members of the U.N. Security
Council that IDA cosponsored between 1999 and 2001. That dialogue explored the
differences of worldview, historical perspective, and national interest informing strategy
and policy in each capitol. Ranging across such myriad topics as the balance of power,
the legitimacy of humanitarian interventions, the impact of ballistic missile defense, and
the tensions between multipolarity and unipolarity, that dialogue also gave vent to
debates in each country about the requirements of peace and stability in the current era.
To the surprise of many, that dialogue extended into a deep exploration of sovereignty's
contribution to peace and to the requirements of political legitimacy. Also to a surprising
extent, issues related to weapons of mass destruction cut across much of the agenda, and
with them, questions about the ability of a "nuclear aristocracy" to provide nuclear order
over the long term. For the Americans in the dialogue process, the main message from
the others was simply that doubts about American power and purposes on the world stage
permeate every aspect of the global security dialogue. In its moment of unprecedented
power and dominance, what will America choose to do? What will it do with primacy?
United States. Department of Defense
Roberts, Brad
2002-12
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Building a Better World: One Path from Crisis to Opportunity
Remarks as Delivered by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, at the Brookings Institution talking about the war on Terrorism. Deputy Wolfowitz said "The attacks also shined a searchlight of truth on the real intentions of the terrorists. For as Shafeeq Ghabra pointed out, the terrorists seek to target not just America, but Muslims and Islam by attacking the ideals of tolerance, justice and openness that are the aspirations of millions of Muslims around the world, as well. If the terrorists are successful in destroying these ideals, East and West alike will suffer. As I've been pointing out to audiences since that day, the terrorists target their fellow Muslims, upon whom they aim to impose a new kind of violent tyranny--a tyranny that pretends to be based on Islam but which owes more to the totalitarian impulses of the 20th century than to the great religion that the terrorists are attempting to hijack. The hundreds of millions of Muslims who aspire to modernity, freedom and prosperity are just as much on the front lines of the struggle against terrorism as are we.
United States. Department of Defense
Wolfowitz, Paul
2002-09-02
