Critical Infrastructure Resilience Integration Engineering
The critical infrastructure is the industrial base on which the competitiveness and security of the nation are dependent. The current state of the nation’s critical infrastructure is at risk. The Internet has become the central nervous system of the nation both private and public. The nation’s critical infrastructure continues to be vulnerable to natural disasters and cascading Cyber Security attacks. In fact, software has become the “critical infrastructure within the critical infrastructure” as noted by Dr. Alan Salisbury at the Second National Software Summit (NSS2) in 20042.
The role of the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Integration Engineering is being described in five parts:
1. An assessment of the context and culture of industry sectors.
2. An assessment of the readiness to fulfill the Intelligent Middleman job description for each industry sector.
3. An assessment of the Resiliency Maturity Framework for industry sectors.
4. Specification of the Critical Infrastructure Resilience System of Systems Architecture.
5. Preparation of a Program Plan for engineering, developing, integrating, and fielding the Critical Infrastructure Resilience System of Systems in terms of a Way of Working.