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Government Facilities Sector: Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources

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Sector Overview

The Government Facilities Sector includes a wide variety of buildings, owned or leased by federal, state, territorial, local or tribal governments, located domestically and overseas. Many government facilities are open to the public for business activities, commercial transactions, or recreational activities. Others not open to the public contain highly sensitive information, materials, processes, and equipment. This includes general-use office buildings and special-use military installations, embassies, courthouses, national laboratories, and structures that may house critical equipment and systems, networks, and functions.

In addition to physical structures, the sector considers cyber elements that contribute to the protection of sector assets (e.g., access control systems and closed-circuit television systems) as well as the protection of individuals who possess tactical, operational, or strategic knowledge or perform essential functions.

Read the Government Facilities Sector Snapshot (PDF, 2 pages - 398 KB)

 


Contact

For more information on the Government Facilities Sector, please contact nipp_gfs@dhs.gov.

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This page was last reviewed/modified on December 29, 2008.