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Notice about external links: DoD's Role & Responsibilities Homeland Security Presidential Directive-7 (HSPD-7),
Critical Infrastructure Identification, Prioritization and Protection, assigns responsibilities to the Department of Defense. The DoD has two roles for critical infrastructure protection, first as a Federal department and second as a Sector-Specific Agency for one of seventeen national infrastructure sectors—the Defense Industrial Base. Within DoD, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs, ASD(HD&ASA), is assigned as the lead official for providing policy, guidance, oversight, and resource advocacy for these roles. The Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection under the ASD(HD&ASA) oversees the day-to-day execution of HSPD-7 responsibilities. The responsibilities for each of these roles are summarized below.
Sector-Specific Agency
DoD is responsive to the Department of Homeland Security in executing its national responsibilities. DoD's approach to executing its SSA responsibilities is detailed in the Sector-Specific Plan for the Defense Industrial Base, an annex to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. What is Critical Infrastructure? 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. What is CIP? Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) consists of actions taken to prevent, remediate, or mitigate the risks resulting from vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure assets. Depending on the risk, these actions could include changes in tactics, techniques, or procedures; adding redundancy; selection of another asset; isolation or hardening; guarding, etc. CIP History
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