Moteff John D.

This author's articles

• Critical Infrastructures: Background, Policy, and Implementation

  5 September 2006
  The report provides a background of U.S. policy developments in the area of critical infrastructure protection, starting from the establishment of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection in 1996 and President Clinton’s Presidential Decision Directive No. 63 in 1998, and including initiatives pursued under the Bush administration following the September 11 attacks.

• Critical Infrastructures: What Makes an Infrastructure Critical?

  3 January 2006
  The Bush Administration’s proposal for establishing a Department of Homeland Security includes a function whose responsibilities include the coordination of policies and actions to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure. However, the proposal did not specify criteria for how to determine criticality or which infrastructures should be considered critical.

• Critical Infrastructure Information Disclosure and Homeland Security

  3 January 2006
  Critical infrastructures have been defined as those systems and assets so vital to the United States that the incapacity of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on the United States. One of the findings of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, established by President Clinton in 1996, was the need for the federal government and owners and operators of the nation’s critical infrastructures to share information on vulnerabilities and threats. However, the Commission noted that owners and operators are reluctant to share confidential business information, and the government is reluctant to share information that might compromise intelligence sources or investigations. Among the strategies to promote information sharing was a proposal to exempt critical infrastructure information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.