"Critical infrastructure security in the U.S. is implemented…" — Bradford C. Mason (#c876)

Card #c876IR // #c876SynthesisMilitary report

Critical infrastructure security in the U.S. is implemented fifty different ways — each state and locality has "unilaterally interpreted their roles and priorities," so the national mission is "highly adapted locally and is not clearly and/or consistently interpreted, understood, applied, or implemented across the nation" despite national doctrine demanding uniformity.

— In our words · Source: Putting the critical back in critical infrastructure (Bradford C. Mason)

[Use when]

A national mission run as fifty local interpretations isn't one mission — it's fifty, sharing a name and the same vulnerability.

[Why it matters]

The paradox — operational competence on top of a missing managerial core — reads as the diagnosis behind today's critical-infrastructure-attack debates: America defends its grid, pipelines, and water as fifty experiments, not one program.