Critical Infrastructure Digitalization and Resilience

The program seeks to enable digital transformation by supporting critical infrastructure owners, operators, and oversight bodies to address both immediate vulnerabilities to critical infrastructure sectors, while establishing the basis for a productive enabling environment that addresses legal, workforce, and investment gaps to support critical infrastructure resilience. this addendum focuses on critical infrastructure in the following sectors: electric/natural gas/water transmission and distribution, electric power generation, telecommunications, district heating, oil, health care, finance/banking, and transportation.

CIDR objectives in collaboration with contractual mechanisms aimed at government-level support, this activity intends to support the entities tasked with operating and overseeing critical infrastructure through the combination of regional working groups composed of sector-specific e&e critical infrastructure entities with the potential targeted bilateral support to individual countries.

CIDR objectives include the following: 1. accelerate the development of the workforce among critical infrastructure entities to protect against and respond to threats from malign actors, particularly cyberattacks. 2. empower critical infrastructure entities in Europe and Eurasia to identify and address threats to critical infrastructure and facilitate the export of U.S. technology and expertise to counter these threats. 3. establish the policies, frameworks, and coordination bodies necessary to empower critical infrastructure entities to protect and improve the resilience of critical infrastructure key resources. 4. establish robust information sharing networks between national and regional critical infrastructure entities, promoting coordinated and collaborative responses to threats to critical infrastructure. 5. improve U.S. security through application of lessons learned from this USAID-supported activity by U.S. critical infrastructure entities.