CIKR Support Annex
Click on this link to access a copy of the CIKR Support Annex to the National Response Framework.
- What Is the NRF?
- What Is the CIKR Support Annex?
- What Is an Infrastructure Liaison?
- Where Can I Learn More?
The National Response Framework (NRF):
- Guides how the Nation conducts all-hazards response.
- Documents the key response principles, roles, and structures that organize national response.
- Describes how communities, States, the Federal Government, and private-sector and nongovernmental partners apply these principles for a coordinated, effective national response.
- Allows first responders, decisionmakers, and supporting entities to provide a unified national response.
The NRF Support Annexes describe how Federal departments and agencies, the private sector, volunteer organizations, and nongovernmental organizations coordinate and execute the common support processes and administrative tasks required during an incident.
What Is the CIKR Support Annex?
The CIKR Support Annex describes policies, roles and responsibilities, and the concept of operations for assessing, prioritizing, protecting, and restoring critical infrastructure and key resources of the United States and its territories and possessions during actual or potential domestic incidents. The annex details processes to ensure coordination and integration of CIKR-related activities among a wide array of public and private incident managers and CIKR security partners within immediate incident areas as well as at the regional and national levels. Specifically, the annex does the following:
- Describes roles and responsibilities for CIKR preparedness, protection, response, recovery, restoration, and continuity of operations relative to NRF coordinating structures and National Incident Management System (NIMS) guiding principles.
- Establishes a concept of operations for incident-related CIKR preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and restoration.
- Outlines incident-related actions (including preresponse and postresponse) to expedite information sharing and analysis of actual or potential impacts to CIKR and facilitate requests for assistance and information from public- and private-sector partners.
What Is an Infrastructure Liaison?
The CIKR Support Annex defines the role of the Infrastructure Liaison function. The Infrastructure Liaison may be assigned to serve at the headquarters, regional, or field level to:
- Serve as a liaison between the national- and regional-level CIKR, the private sector, and the field level.
- Coordinate CIKR and Emergency Support Function (ESF) issues between the field level and Infrastructure Protection representatives located at the national level and other operation centers or venues.
- Provide situational awareness on the affected CIKR and periodic updates to the incident management leadership.
- Serve as the senior advocate for CIKR issues within the field and to support the prioritization of response and restoration efforts.
- Leverage private-sector relationships to support response and recovery efforts.
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