One focus area for NISAC is the importance of local and regional infrastructures—understanding their interactions and importance to our overall national economic health. In 2004 and 2005, NISAC evaluated the western Gulf Coast region. NISAC developed a National Petroleum System Simulator to evaluate the potential short-term effects of disruptions in the western Gulf Coast petroleum infrastructure operations on the rest of the...

Results of NISAC’s two-year study on the potential impacts of pandemic influenza in the United States were published in October 2007 and released to the public in 2008. The summary report and supplemental analysis reports can be downloaded from the column to the right. Pandemic Influenza Impact on Workforce and Critical Infrastructure NISAC models have been enhanced to simulate multiscale epidemiology and the public health...

As the NISAC models developed and matured, DHS used the analysis team to evaluate potential threats to the nation’s infrastructures. These threats can and do present NISAC with questions that go beyond the boundaries of any individual modeling capability or expert set. Also, these analysis requests frequently require rapid turn-arounds, with delivery deadlines ranging from just a few hours to a number of days.  NISAC provides this broad...

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 local planners, NISAC analyzed the possible direct and cascading impacts from a magnitude 9.0...

The fact sheets page is currently under construction.