Critical Infrastructures: Background and Early Implementation of PDD-63 Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Critical Infrastructures: Background and Early Implementation of PDD-63

Creator

  • Author: Moteff, John D.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Resources, Science, and Industry Division

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2001-06-19

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The nation's health, wealth, and security rely on the supply and distribution of certain goods and services. The array of physical assets, processes and organizations across which these goods and services move are called critical infrastructures (e.g. electricity, the power plants that generate it, and the electric grid upon which it is distributed or financial capital, the institutions that manage it, and the record- keeping and communications that move it from one institution to another).
  • Physical Description: 27 pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Infrastructure
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: National security - U.S.
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: National policy - U.S.
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Defense policy

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: RL30153
  • Accession or Local Control No: RL30153 2001-06-19
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs1827
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