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United States Government Accountability Office

Report to Congressional Committees

DEFENSE CRITICALINFRASTRUCTURE Actions Needed toImprove theIdentification andManagement of Electrical Power Risksand Vulnerabilities toDOD Critical Assets

October 2009GAO-10-147

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Contents

Letter

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Results in Brief 6Background 10 DOD’s Most Critical Assets Are Vulnerable to Electrical PowerDisruptions, but DOD Lacks Sufficient Information to Determinethe Full Extent of Their Vulnerability 22DOD Has Taken Steps to Assure Availability of Electrical Power toCritical Assets, but It Lacks a Mechanism for TrackingImplementation, and Its Coordination with Electricity ProvidersRemains Limited 31Conclusions 37 Recommendations for Executive Action 39 Agency Comments and Our Evaluation 40

Appendix I Scope and Methodology

Appendix II Typical Electrical Power Vulnerabilities andRemediation Measures

Appendix III Survey of DOD Critical Assets

Appendix IV Survey of DOD Critical Asset Missions

Appendix V Survey of Coordination Efforts for DOD Critical Assets

Appendix VI Comments from the Department of Defense

Appendix VII GAO Contact and Staff Acknowledgments

Defense Critical Infrastructure

Related GAO Products

82Obtaining Copies of GAO Reports and Testimony 88

Table

Table 1: Summary of Selected DOD Mission Assurance Programs 18

Figures

Figure 1: The U.S. Commercial Electrical Power Grid Interconnects 11Figure 2: Overview of the Electric Power System and ControlCommunications 12 Figure 3: Key Elements of DCIP Risk Management 17

Abbreviations

ASD(HD&ASA) Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense forHomeland Defense and Americas’ Security AffairsDCIP Defense Critical Infrastructure ProgramDHS Department of Homeland SecurityDISLA Defense Infrastructure Sector Lead AgentDOD Department of DefenseDOE Department of Energy

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