Critical Manufacturing Sector

Sector Details

The Critical Manufacturing Sector is crucial to the economic prosperity and continuity of the United States. A direct attack on or disruption of certain elements of the manufacturing industry could disrupt essential functions at the national level and across multiple critical infrastructure sectors. 

The Critical Manufacturing Sector has dependencies and interdependencies with a wide range of other sectors, including:

• Transportation Systems: Critical Manufacturing Sector depends on the Transportation Systems Sector to ship our goods and materials. The Critical Manufacturing Sector also produces the ships, aircraft, trucks, that move those goods and materials.
• Energy: Critical Manufacturing Sector relies on energy to keep facilities running, but also produce turbines, switchgear, transformers, electric motors, etc.
• Chemical: Critical Manufacturing Sector depends on chemicals to process unrefined ore and treat processed metals and metal products, while also producing air and gas compressors, and nonagricultural spraying and dusting equipment, etc.
• Water: Critical Manufacturing Sector relies on water for its factories and facilities and, also, manufacturers iron pipes, valves, compressors, etc., for moving water.

Overview

The Critical Manufacturing Sector identified several industries to serve as the core of the sector: 

Products made by these manufacturing industries are essential to many other critical infrastructure sectors. The Critical Manufacturing Sector focuses on the identification, assessment, prioritization, and protection of nationally significant manufacturing industries within the sector that may be susceptible to manmade and natural disasters.