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Critical Infrastructure Dependability Lab

CID Lab

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Critical Infrastructure:

Critical Infrastructure of the United States are those elements essential to the nation's security, public safety and health, economic vitality, and way of life. These include elements enhancing the Effectiveness of the Nation's Preparedness, Response, and Recovery System used to respond to catastrophic disasters.

CID Lab Summary

The entire resources of the University of New Hampshire, both academic and research, are available to support or work in conjunction with CID Lab and its projects.

Professor Rucinski is assisted by the CID Lab Advisory Board:

CID Lab - US has a counterpart in the EU that is based at the Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland and is known as CID Lab - EU. CID Lab - EU is directed by Professor Andrzej Stepnowski and supported by members of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics of Gdansk University of Technology (GUT).

Mission

The Mission of CID Lab is to perform research and development, demonstrate and evaluate new technologies, practices, and procedures that support the improvement of durability, dependability, protection and resilience of critical infrastructure which enables the normal acceptable functions of our society and the Global web of commerce.

A further mission for CID Lab - US is to serve as a source of assistance and performance of services for clients and a clearing house for technologies, practices, procedures, standards, designs, and specifications applicable to infrastructure durability, resilience and protection. In this function, CID Lab - US established two activities. One is in collaboration with the Center for Infrastructure Expertise of the National Infrastructure Institute (NI2-CIE) to provide a link to state and regional agencies charged with oversight of homeland security issues relating to critical infrastructure. Second is a Critical Radio Communications Infrastructure Standards-Specifications Initiative in support of mission critical and first responder radio communications systems.

The CID Lab also serves as a research center for graduate student projects and includes the development of teaching and laboratory materials which support these efforts. Activities that were initiated in September 2006 include:

CID Lab also provides technical support for the European Infrastructure Institute that delivers consulting support in Global Computer, Security Engineering and Science to commercial and governmental customers.

In support of the Critical Radio Communications Infrastructure Standards-Specifications Initiative, the Critical Infrastructure Dependability Laboratory was created to provide the highest quality research, standards and specifications, to agencies and industry who design, build, and operate critical infrastructure. ( CID Lab Radio Mission Statement)

The CID Lab will achieve this goal through support offered in the multiple venues comprising a radio system:

The CID Lab mission will provide the guidance and parameters for developing infrastructure which will have the necessary durability and hardening for survivability and resilience with the ability to be reconfigured during times of emergencies and disasters.

In addition to its own facilities, through its affiliates and partners, CID Lab has access to large scale testbeds in the USA (New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts) that can be used to study and improve infrastructure which supports daily operations and global safe commerce.

CID Lab also interacts with academic, industry and government partners through its participation in and organizing efforts toward conferences such as the IEEE Conference on Homeland Defense and Security Technologies, the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium and by participating in both TEHOSS (2005, 2006) conferences that have been held to date.

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