Infrastructure Vulnerability Analysis System

"This research will develop a methodology and a decision support tool to determine vulnerabilities for identified threats and hazards, determine appropriate countermeasures, and provide for infrastructure facilities and services to military facilities. Thekey innovation in this research is the integration of dependency graphs and Fault Tree Analysis. Methods of dependency analysis will include Colored Petri Nets and Simulation. A geographical information system will be used to select criticalinfrastructure facilities. The benefit is a scalable solution that can address both individual infrastructure vulnerabilities and the consequences of a facility loss on the "dependency web" of the military facility. In the Phase I research, we willdocument the methodology, develop a prototype tool we call RAID (Rapid Assessment of Infrastructure Dependencies), and demonstrate feasibility. The net result of this research, if successful, will be a decision support system that can be used as aplanning aid to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities as well as to determine the optimal approach to restoring services after a series of terrorist attacks. The Decision Support Tool (RAID) emerging from this research will be of value not only to theU.S. Navy but also to many Federal, State, and Local Government authorities responsible for planning and responding to terrorist attacks and disasters. The tool may also be useful to the risk management depa