International airports as agents of resilience

The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is used as an example of how traditional approaches hardening isolated components critical infrastructure against specific threats leaves assets exposed to significant, expensive, and unacceptable levels cascading failure. Optimizing the entire airport supply chain requires development interdisciplinary approach that incorporates complexities airports' including numerous dependent, interdependent independent relationships. Far greater return-on-investment will be yielded through resilience-focused address life cycle disruptions planning, absorption, recovery adaptation.