Assignment:
Below, you are provided a notional setting or scenario for your project. The setting or scenario should assist the group in framing your perspective and shaping your finished product. Your group goal is a recommendation to the local government director of homeland security that addresses the risk analysis and resource allocation of your Individual Project element from Phase into a cohesive risk analysis and resource allocation information and decision support paper combining all team member input. The desired end state is to prioritize Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) by risk and accordingly allocate available resources (federal or state) to implement protection-related activities. Your role within the group is to provide input and recommendations on those specific sectors that you addressed within your Phase 4 Individual Project deliverable, to coordinate with the members of your group to develop the concepts and written elements of the paper, and cooperatively develop the common paragraphs of the paper.
Guidelines
Group Portion
Complete the following for the group portion of your assignment:
As a group, assign the duties and responsibilities within your group.
Review the Phase Individual Project
Discuss (in the small group area Discussion Board) the common areas of each team member's paper. Arrive at a consensus of those elements that are common to the end project.
Provide input to the group on behalf of the sectors that you have examined as part of your Phase Individual Project deliverable.
As a group, develop a single cohesive document that represents each of the sectors that you worked individually on in Phase 4. The group paper should include the following:
Include all sectors addressed within the Individual Projects.
Provide a risk matrix with detailed written explanations on the assignment of values for each of the 15 National Planning Scenarios.
What recommendations can you make to prioritize CIKR by risk for each sector? Explain in detail.
What is your group's plan to effectively allocate available resources (federal or state) to implement protection-related activities for each sector? Explain in detail.
Prioritize resource allocations based upon the conducted risk analysis for each sector.
Your group recommendation should, as much as possible, consider and reflect all that you have learned thus far and posit the most realistic, risk-driven, and resource-constrained methodology. Should you require additional material to aid in your analysis, try the Internet; there is nothing in this assignment requiring access to classified information.
Settings Common to All Groups
The Group Project expands upon the concepts developed during Phase 4 and expands the scope of the Phase Individual Project to include all of the CIKR sectors (16 total). This is a formal information and decision support paper that you are developing for the director of Homeland Security of your chosen municipal community. The director's intent is to share this risk analysis and resource allocation paper with the major department heads of the city, the city manager or administrator, the mayor, and the city council. The director's goal is to enhance awareness of CIKR protection and resiliency issues and to improve overall CIKR security, planning, mitigation, response, recovery, and resiliency. The director also plans to use this assessment as a means and justification for additional funding of CIKR projects.
Use the following sectors:
Transportation Systems Sector
Rail and passenger
Ferry and other port transportation modes
Airports and airplanes
Bridges
Tunnels and vehicular (passenger)
Government Facilities Sector
Federal government facilities
Commercial office buildings housing federal government offices
Educational institutions
Commercial Facilities Sector
Shopping malls
Sports complexes and exhibition halls
Large, public gathering places
Jewish facilities (community centers, schools, synagogues, etc.)
Energy Sector
Electrical power generation facilities
Petroleum production facilities
Natural gas production facilities
Chemical Sector
Basic chemicals
Specialty chemicals (any of the 322 chemicals covered in the Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Standards)
Agricultural chemicals
Pharmaceuticals
Consumer products
The importance of conducting a complete risk analysis and including your combined matrices within this paper cannot be overstressed. You must provide a descriptive justification for why each element has been assigned a certain value within the context of your group paper.