to prop up the automobile industry and President-elect Obama inherited an economy in collapse. In 2009, the newly elected President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law. The Act provided stimulus spending in infrastructure, health, energy, education, unemployment insurance, social welfare programs, and many other areas of government interest. To address concerns from political opposition to that Act, ARRA included strong provisions governing transparency of the
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Assignment 2: Critical Infrastructure Protection Strayer University Introduction In the wake of a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or emergency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is prepared to respond. DHS primary responsibilities are combatting terrorism, securing boarders, enforcing immigration laws, safeguarding cyberspace, and responding to natural disasters. Coordination with the federal response teams and partnerships with local, state, and private sectors, enhance the DHS response
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speculative sectors that offer turnaround and even high growth potential. The following report will investigate four of these sectors including healthcare, education, infrastructure and renewable energy. In order for the MENA countries to become predominant leaders in the future, they need to invest in a solid healthcare system and infrastructure to ensure the needs of their growing population. However, the MENA region spends only about 4.0% of its GDP on healthcare, compared to 14.3% by the Americas and
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confidence in electronic transactions ” Contents 1.0 Security of Cyber Space – Strategic perspective 1.1 IT as an engine for economic growth and prosperity 1.2 Security of cyber space - Need for action 1.3 Target audience 1.4 Securing cyber space – Key policy considerations 2.0 Cyber space – Nature of threat 2.1 Threat landscape 2.2 International cooperation 2.3 Securing cyber space – Scope of action 2.3.1 Cyber security and cyber defense 2.3.2 Cyber intelligence and cyber defense 2.4 Priorities for
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people, animals and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rail, road, water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport is important since it enables trade between peoples, which in turn establishes civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of the fixed installations necessary for transport, and may be roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway
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Critical Infrastructure and National Planning Paper Austin Hastings BSS/482 Securing Critical Infrastructure and Cyberspace Ray Gagne September 14, 2015 This paper will discuss many topics to include describing one of the national planning approaches covered in the annual report. Also explaining how prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery were integrated into the approach. Moving into describing the presence of the public or private sector in the annual public meeting.
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delivery model for making applications available over the Internet. IT analysts view cloud computing from the perspective of variable pricing without long-term commitments and massive elastic scaling of services. IT leaders look at cloud as an infrastructure architecture alternative that can reduce costs. End users, the media and financial analysts have still other perspectives on what cloud computing represents. Each group is discussing cloud comput- ing, but few are discussing it in the same
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American Public University System American Military University SCMT Undergraduate Capstone Proposal Form 12 February 2015 Daniel Roberts Winter 2015 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the BA in Security Management Abstract The purpose of this proposal is to address the importance of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and the mythology behind this since the attacks of 9/11, as well as a brief history of Critical Infrastructure Protection pass to the
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method of procurement that brings together the public and the private sectors in a long-term partnership for mutual benefit. The vital feature is that it is intended to achieve both social and commercial goals. When it serve as a long-term solution for offering infrastructure within a country, it would indirectly support sufficient growth and economic benefits for the public. The broader execution of concession can be done to fund transport infrastructure such as highways, tunnels, railway, ports, bridges
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Finance The Methodology most used to finance capital-intensive projects was called project financing, and the field was called project finance. Characteristics There were many definitions of project fiance, but almost all of them had the following key characteristics. The main feature is the creation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), a bankruptcy-remote entity that remained secure if the parent company went under. The SPV has a limited life (usually the duration of the project, i.e. 20 to 30
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