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The Department of Homeland Security funded the construction of a building to house NISAC on the Sandia National Laboratories site in Albuquerque, NM. This is the first building funded by DHS.

Contact

• Stephanie Holinka, (slholin@sandia.gov)
  (505) 284-9227

Related links

• Homeland security brochure (3.92MB PDF)

The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) is a modeling, simulation, and analysis program that prepares and shares analyses of critical infrastructure and key resources including their interdependencies, vulnerabilities, consequences of disruption, and other complexities. NISAC is under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Infrastructure Protection (OIP).

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are the prime contractors for NISAC, integrating the two laboratories’ expertise in the modeling and simulation of complex systems for evaluating national preparedness and security issues.

NISAC activities include:

• Infrastructure modeling and analysis
• Decision support tools
• Knowledge management
• Fast turnaround analyses

Learn more about the technologies and capabilities available from NISAC:

Overview

• National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center

Capabilities

• Dynamic Infrastructure Interdependency Simulation and Analysis
• NISAC Agent-Based Laboratory for Economics (N-ABLETM)
• Network Optimization Models
• Chemical Sector Analysis Capability
• Advanced Modeling & Techniques Investigation

Analyses

• Fast Analysis and Simulation Team (FAST)
• Analysis of Hurricane Impacts to Infrastructure
• Pandemic Influenza Impact on Workforce and Critical Infrastructure
• Analysis for National Priorities: Tiers 1 and 2
• Western Gulf Coast Analysis
• National Hazards Analysis

Tools

• Fast Analysis Infrastructure Tool (FAIT)
• Port Operations and Economic Conditions Simulators
• Spatial Infrastructure Mapping and Analysis Tool
• Telecommunications Network Simulation Modeling and Analysis Tools
• Secure Synchronous Collaboration Framework
• Knowledge Synthesis Capabilities
• Semantic Technologies for Knowledge Synthesis

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