Critical Infrastructures and Key Resources

Critical infrastructures and key resources are so vital to our national security that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense, economic security, public health or national confidence of the United States.

Critical infrastructures are physical and cyber-based systems that are essential to the minimum operations of the economy and the government (as defined in Presidential Decision Directive/NSC 63, May 1998 ). InfraGard has Subject Matter Experts around the country in each of the following 18 categories of critical infrastructures and key resources, as recognized by the National Infrastructure Protection Plan:

• Agriculture and Food
• Banking and Finance
• Chemical
• Commercial Facilities
• Communications
• Critical Manufacturing
• Dams
• Defense Industrial Base
• Emergency Services
• Energy
• Government Facilities
• Healthcare and Public Health
• Information Technology
• National Monuments and Icons
• Nuclear
• Postal and Shipping
• Transportation
• Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems