The National Plan for Research and Development In Support of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2004

Fifty-two American citizens were taken hostage when militant students of radical Islam stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. A suicide bomber in a pickup truck loaded with explosives rammed into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Sixty-three people were killed, including 17 Americans. TWA Flight 847 was hijacked en route from Athens to Rome and forced to land in Beirut, Lebanon, where the hijackers held the plane for 17 days. When the demands of the hijackers were not met, hostage Robert Dean Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver, was shot and his body dumped on the airport tarmac. A bomb built in nearby New Jersey is driven into an underground garage at the World Trade Center and is then detonated. The explosion results in 6 deaths, and over 1,500 injuries. A planned bombing attack on the motorcade of the visiting Pope is thwarted when bomb-making materials catch fire in the sink of Ramzi Yousef's kitchen. 27-year old Timothy McVeigh, a U.S. citizen, uses a massive truck bomb to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 168 people are killed in the incident. A truck bomb is detonated outside the Khobar Towers complex in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 American servicemen and wounding an additional 400. A Zodiac-like boat, laden with bombs, detonates beside the USS Cole in the Port of Aden in Yemen. 17 U.S. sailors are killed, and many more are wounded. Coordinated hijackings take control of 4 U.S. commercial airliners. Two hijacked planes were flown into the World Trade Center Towers and one into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane crashes into rural Pennsylvania. The crashes result in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. At least 3,000 people are killed. outlined the requirements for protecting the Nation's critical infrastructure. These critical infrastructures consist of the following sectors and key re-Attacks on critical infrastructure (CI) could disrupt the direct functioning of key business and government activities, facilities, and systems , as well as have cascading effects throughout the Nation's economy and society. The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in coordination with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), must prepare on an annual basis a federal research and development (R&D) plan in support of the HSPD-7 directive. As the appropriate standing federal in-teragency forum, the Infrastructure Subcommittee 1 of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) was tasked …