FASTMap is a Web-based mapping application that browses national infrastructure data and produces detailed reports of assets at risk within any area of disruption or any analysis area. FASTMap uses the NGA’s (National Geospatial Intelligence Agency) national infrastructure database Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) Gold and...
Hurricane Irene was the only 2011 hurricane to make a U.S. landfall. As Irene neared landfall, NISAC modeled the hurricane’s potential impacts on critical infrastructure in several key sectors located in the projected storm track. This provided situational awareness and advanced warning of potential infrastructure impacts for DHS and...
In 1700, the Pacific Northwest experienced an earthquake and tsunami event that rivals the 2011 Tōhoku, Japan, earthquake and tsunami. A catastrophic earthquake of this magnitude along the Cascadia fault off the coast of Oregon and Washington is estimated to occur every 500 years. To support Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and...
The National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC) is a modeling, simulation, and analysis program within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) comprising personnel in the Washington, D.C. area, as well as from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Congress mandated that NISAC serve as a “source of national expertise to address critical infrastructure protection” research and analysis. 
NISAC prepares and shares analyses of critical infrastructure, including their interdependencies, vulnerabilities, consequences, and other complexities, under the direction of the Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP), Infrastructure Analysis and Strategy Division (IASD). To ensure consistency with IP priorities, NISAC initiatives and tasking requests are coordinated through the NISAC program office.
NISAC provides strategic, multidisciplinary analyses of interdependencies and the consequences of infrastructure disruptions across all 18 critical infrastructure sectors at national, regional, and local levels. NISAC experts have developed and are employing tools to address the complexities of interdependent national infrastructure, including process-based systems dynamics models, mathematical network optimization models, physics-based models of existing infrastructure, and high-fidelity agent-based simulations of systems.
