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Regional Resiliency Assessment Program

A voluntary, cooperative assessment of specific critical infrastructure that identifies a range of security and resilience issues that could have regionally or nationally significant consequences.

Overview

The goal of the Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) is to generate understanding and action among public and private sector partners to improve the resilience of a region’s critical infrastructure. Strong partnerships with federal, state, local, and territorial government officials and private sector organizations across multiple disciplines are essential to the RRAP process. This includes private sector facility owners and operators, industry organizations, emergency response and recovery organizations, utility providers, transportation agencies and authorities, planning commissions, law enforcement, academic institutions, and research centers.

Each RRAP project typically involves a year-long process to collect and analyze data on the critical infrastructure within the designated area, followed by continued technical assistance to enhance the infrastructure's resilience. Individual projects can incorporate many different analytic activities and opportunities for valuable information and data exchanges.

Program Goals

The culmination of RRAP activities, research, and analysis is presented in a Resiliency Assessment documenting project results and findings, including key regional resilience gaps and options for addressing these shortfalls. The goals of the RRAP include:

  • Resolve infrastructure security and resilience knowledge gaps
  • Inform risk management decisions
  • Identify opportunities and strategies to enhance infrastructure resilience
  • Improve critical partnerships among the public and private sectors

Facility owners and operators, regional organizations, and government agencies can use the results to help guide strategic investments in equipment, planning, training, and infrastructure development to enhance the resilience and security of critical infrastructure, surrounding communities, and entire regions.

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Publications and other resources on resiliency assessments from CISA.

 

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Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) Fact Sheet

MAY 22, 2014 | PUBLICATION
The goal of the Regional Resiliency Assessment Program (RRAP) is to generate greater understanding and action among private and public sector partners to improve the resilience of a region's critical infrastructure.
Download File (PDF, 132.63 KB)

Methodology for Assessing Regional Infrastructure Resilience

OCT 29, 2021 | PUBLICATION
The goal of this document is to distill lessons from more than 10 years of RRAP projects and articulate a generalizable, repeatable methodology for conducting voluntary regional infrastructure resilience assessments that stakeholders can tailor and apply to their own needs.
Download File (PDF, 23.21 MB)

Methodology for Assessing Regional Infrastructure Resilience Fact Sheet

OCT 29, 2021 | PUBLICATION
The application of this methodology is intended to bolster capabilities of organizations, communities, and regions to analyze, understand, and improve the resilience of critical infrastructure systems nationwide.
Download File (PDF, 870.93 KB)
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For more information, please send an email to RRAP@cisa.dhs.gov.

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