Frederic Petit

Argonne National Laboratory | ANL · Decision and Infrastructure Science Division

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented extraordinary challenges to every community across the globe. Yet public health outcomes have exhibited widely disproportionate impacts across communities, revealing significant variances in how systemic risks created or multiplied by the pandemic have affected different communities and the extent to which those...

Critical infrastructure systems provide vital resources and services to the population, commercial ventures, industrial operations, government entities, as well as to other interdependent critical infrastructure. These infrastructure systems depend upon extensive interconnections with one another; thus, the consequences resulting from one infrastru...

Throughout the world, there is strong recognition that critical infrastructure security and resilience need to be improved. Enhancing the protection and resilience of critical infrastructure has emerged as an urgent goal—a goal made more challenging by the complexity of these systems and their inherent interdependencies. Consideration of critical i...

Logical interdependencies encompass the interconnected “human” influences, decision-making processes, and effects of choices between organisations that operate in related geographic areas, infrastructure sectors, or business spheres. These are a fundamental consideration when assessing the resilience of an organisation and, ultimately, its ability...

Critical infrastructure dependencies and interdependencies are fundamental considerations when assessing the resilience of infrastructure—and, ultimately, the resilience of the community, sector, or region in which the infrastructure is located. Critical infrastructure assets help other entities function by providing essential resources and service...

Effective adaptation of critical infrastructure systems requires actionable and locally relevant climate change impact data. However, the gap that exists between current climate model data outputs and the local planning and design inputs necessary to initiate adaptation activities presents a barrier to this effort. Collaborative engagement between...

The United States faces significant challenges in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. Of particular concern are the impacts that natural hazards and manmade threats, including cyber threats, have on the Nation’s critical infrastructure systems. Enhancing the protection and resilience of U.S. infrastructure has emerged as an...

Physical dependencies are a fundamental consideration when assessing the resilience of an organisation and, ultimately, the resilience of a region. Every organisation needs specific resources for supporting its operations. A disruption in the supply of these resources can severely impact business continuity. It is important to characterise dependen...

Resiliency studies are complex in every way imaginable. The study focus may stretch across every facet of society. The time period of interest may be on an order of decades if not generations. The society or area of interest may have been interrupted by a catastrophic event from natural or man-induced factors. Making improvements in physical elemen...

In 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its protective security advisors began assessing high-risk critical infrastructure assets using a targeted questionnaire, the Infrastructure Survey Tool (IST), and produced individual vulnerability/protective measure values through the Protective Measures Index (PMI) and Vulnerability Inde...

The world faces numerous threats from both natural and man-made sources. Since the beginning of the 21st century, in the United States alone, we have experienced several devastating events. Incidents such as the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, the Northeast blackout in 2003, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Superstorm Sandy in 2012 have ha...

In 2009, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began using a targeted questionnaire to produce individual vulnerability/ protective-measure values for high-risk critical infrastructures and key resources. As sites continue to be assessed, the topic of resilience is emerging as a necessary focus in risk management and infrastructure protectio...

There is strong agreement among policymakers, practitioners, and academic researchers that the concept of resilience must play a major role in assessing the extent to which various entities - critical infrastructure owners and operators, communities, regions, and the Nation - are prepared to respond to and recover from the full range of threats the...

Argonne National Laboratory in partnership with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed a methodology to systematically evaluate the protection posture and vulnerability of critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR). This vulnerability methodology is part of a larger effort by DHS called the Enhanced Critical Infrastructure...

In order to enhance the resilience of the Nation and its ability to protect itself in the face of natural and human-caused hazards, the ability of the critical infrastructure (CI) system to withstand specific threats and return to normal operations after degradation must be determined. To fully analyze the resilience of a region and the CI that res...

Several recent studies have provided a range of perspectives on the role of resilience in policies and programs designed to address natural and man-made threats. A review of those studies reveals that there is strong agreement that the concept of resilience must play a major role in assessing the extent to which various entities—critical infrastruc...

Regardless of the measures put in place to prevent or mitigate them, natural and man-made hazards remain a daunting challenge for community leaders tasked with ensuring public safety. Governments and other organizations can provide services to protect and respond to their citizens’ needs in an emergency, but ultimately, the relative resilience of a...

To increase emergency preparedness for communities, steps must be taken to improve both soft (community planning, education and relationships) and hard (core operational capabilities) aspects of preparedness, resilience and recovery. While professional standards and accreditation organizations continue to improve individual capabilities of first re...

Life support networks are vital structures, as they are significant in size and essential in nature for the entire society. A network failure may thus involve serious consequences. The analysis of the needs of those in charge of emergency measures has established that the behaviour of life support networks had to be studied not only for extreme eve...

In 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its protective security advisors began assessing high-risk critical infrastructure and key resource (CIKR) assets using a targeted questionnaire: the infrastructure survey tool. The survey tool produced individual protective measure and vulnerability values through protective measure and v...

Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are complex systems. For their operations, these infrastructures are increasingly using Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Management practices are therefore highly dependent on the cyber tools, but also on the data needed to make these tools work. Therefore, CIs are greatly vulnerable to degrad...

Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are complex systems. For their operations, these infrastructures are increasingly using Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. Management practices are therefore highly dependent on the cyber tools, but also on the data needed to make these tools work. Therefore, CIs are greatly vulnerable to degrad...

This article summarises research intended to expand current study methodologies targeting flood risks with regard to specific issues and emergency preparedness requirements of municipalities. Various methods are currently available to predict the consequences of flooding risks. DOMINO is one such tool used to study flooding risks from natural event...

Life support networks allow the delivery of essential services such as energy, water, telecommunications, etc. They are the guarantees, for a society, of properly functioning socioeconomic activisties, in respect to health and safety of the general population. These networks are constituted of a multitude of interrelated infrastructure , which, upo...