Choose a Critical Infrastructure Sector

“There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof” (Department of Homeland Security, 2016, p.1).

Choose a critical infrastructure sector to focus your technology review. For definitions of critical infrastructures, see https://www.dhs.gov/critical-infrastructure-sectors. You may wish to choose your emerging application of technology first and then select an appropriate critical infrastructure in which your selected technology can be applied or deployed.

Choose an Emerging Application of Technology

Choose an emerging application of technology that can be used in the computers, digital devices, and other electronic / electrical technologies (including networks and network infrastructures) that are deployed in or used to build, operate, support, or maintain a critical infrastructure sector (e.g. utilities, pipelines, transportation, smart cities, etc.).

Autonomous Vehicles (ground, sea, or air): Transportation Systems Sector
Deep Space Communication Networks: Communications Sector
Implantable Medical Devices: Healthcare and Public Health Sector
Precision Agriculture (integrated systems using satellite imagery, GPS, Sensors, Robots): Food & Agriculture Sector
Robot inspectors for physical infrastructures (buildings, roads, railways, pipelines, etc.): Multiple Sectors
Smart Grid (also called Advanced Metering Infrastructure): Energy Sector
Wearable Sensors for Hazardous Materials Detection (e.g. CBRNE): Emergency Services Sector