Title: Unit Five Goals
Course: Critical Infrastructure: An Overview > Section: Course Content

Unit Five

Goals

Upon completion of Unit Five, students should be able to:

Defense

- Describe the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector of critical infrastructure and name the other sectors with which it interacts
- Recognize and describe the nine sub-systems of the DIB sector
- Demonstrate a familiarity with the sub-systems of the DIB sector

Chemical

- Describe the chemical sector of critical infrastructure
- List the five main segments that make up the chemical  infrastructure sector
- List the four key functions the Department of Homeland Security recognizes in the chemical infrastructure sector
- Explain why the chemical infrastructure sector is considered critical infrastructure
- Demonstrate an understanding of the sectors with which the chemical sector interacts
- Describe the threats to the chemical infrastructure sector

Healthcare and Public Health

- Describe the healthcare and public health (HPH) critical infrastructure sector and explain why it is considered critical infrastructure
- List and describe the four main goals of the sector
- Recognize the critical infrastructure sectors that are interdependent with the HPH sector
- Demonstrate a familiarity with the priorities of as well as the challenges and threats to the sector
- Demonstrate some familiarity with the groups that regulate and otherwise enhance the HPH sector

Emergency Services

- Define emergency services and name the five disciplines that comprise the emergency services sector (ESS)
- Demonstrate a familiarity with the mission of the ESS
- Describe the reasons that ESS is considered critical infrastructure
- Describe the threats, vulnerabilities, and challenges to the ESS (as presented in the unit)
- Describe some of the specialties included in the ESS
- Describe IPAWS
- List the critical infrastructure sectors that interact with the ESS sector