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Government Facilities Sector

The Government Facilities Sector helps Federal, state, local and tribunal facilities identify their unique risk factors and protect against potential attacks or issues.

Critical Infrastructure Sectors

  • Chemical Sector
  • Commercial Facilities Sector
  • Communications Sector
  • Critical Manufacturing Sector
  • Dams Sector
  • Defense Industrial Base Sector
  • Emergency Services Sector
  • Energy Sector
  • Financial Services Sector
  • Food and Agriculture Sector
  • Government Facilities Sector
  • Healthcare and Public Health Sector
  • Information Technology Sector
  • Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste Sector
  • Transportation Systems Sector
  • Water and Wastewater Sector

Sector Details

The Government Facilities Sector includes a wide variety of buildings, located in the United States and overseas, that are owned or leased by federal, state, local, and tribal governments. Many government facilities are open to the public for business activities, commercial transactions, or recreational activities while others that are not open to the public contain highly sensitive information, materials, processes, and equipment. These facilities include general-use office buildings and special-use military installations, embassies, courthouses, national laboratories, and structures that may house critical equipment, systems, networks, and functions. In addition to physical structures, the sector includes cyber elements that contribute to the protection of sector assets (e.g., access control systems and closed-circuit television systems) as well as individuals who perform essential functions or possess tactical, operational, or strategic knowledge.

Overview

The Education Facilities Subsector covers pre-kindergarten through 12th grade schools, institutions of higher education, and business and trade schools. The subsector includes facilities that are owned by both government and private sector entities. The National Monuments and Icons Subsector encompasses a diverse array of assets, networks, systems, and functions located throughout the United States. Many National Monuments and Icons assets are listed in either the National Register of Historic Places or the List of National Historic Landmarks.

The Election Infrastructure Subsector covers a wide range of physical and electronic assets such as storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulations locations used to support the election process, and information and communications technology to include voter registration databases, voting machines, and other systems to manage the election process and report and display results on behalf of state and local governments.

Sector-Specific Plan

The Government Facilities Sector-Specific Plan details how the National Infrastructure Protection Plan risk management framework is implemented within the context of the unique characteristics and risk landscape of the sector. Each Sector Risk Management Agency develops a sector-specific plan through a coordinated effort involving its public and private sector partners. The National Monuments and Icons Sector was consolidated within the Government Facilities Sector in 2013 under Presidential Policy Directive 21. The Department of Homeland Security and the General Services Administration are designated as the Co-Sector Risk Management Agencies for the Government Facilities Sector.

Government Facilities Sector-Specific Plan - 2015 (PDF, 2.66 MB )

Sector Resources

Election Infrastructure Subsector-Specific Plan: 2022 Status Update

This is the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Healthcare and Public Health Sector-Specific Plan for 2022.

Interagency Security Committee

The Interagency Security Committee's (ISC) mandate is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of security in and the protection of buildings and nonmilitary Federal facilities in the United States.

General Services Administration

The General Services Administration delivers effective and efficient government services for the American people. 

Sector Working Groups

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Critical Infrastructure Working Group Government Coordinating Council

View the agendas for the Critical Infrastructure working group government coordinating council.

Government Coordinating Council Training Working Group

View the agendas for the government coordinating council training working group conducted from 2020 to present.

Joint COVID-19 Working Group

View the agendas for the joint COVID-19 working group from 2020 to present.

Joint Executive Committee

View the agendas for the joint executive committee conducted from 2020 to present.

Joint Managing Mis/Disinformation Working Group

View the agendas for the joint managing mis/disinformation working group meetings conducted from 2020 to present.

Joint Subsector-Specific Plan Working Group

The agendas for the joint subsector-specific plan working group meetings conducted from 2020 to present.
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