Infrastructure Protection Domain
Overview
Protecting the nation's critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) is a key U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) mission established in 2002 by the National Strategy for Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Act. This NIEM domain exists to foster better and more timely sharing of information among federal, state, tribal, local, and private-sector partners about infrastructure—and potential threats to it.
NIEM Domain Content
This domain models infrastructure data for all 18 DHS infrastructure sectors (as outlined in the National Infrastructure Protection Plan). The shared data contains locations, names, and contact information for the nation’s infrastructure assets. It describes physical locations of assets with street addresses and geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude).
Click here to download the NIEM 2.1 schemas as a .zip file.
In NIEM 2.1, this domain model reflects the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS Codes), providing developers across domains with a full taxonomy of infrastructure categories and descriptions.
Domain Stewardship
The DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) leads the coordinated national program to reduce risks to the nation's CIKR posed by acts of terrorism and to strengthen national preparedness, timely response, and rapid recovery in the event of an attack, natural disaster, or other emergency. State, local, tribal and private-sector subject-matter experts will also participate in governance of this data model.
Contact Information
For additional information about this domain, please contact the National Information Sharing Standards help desk at nisshelp@ijis.org.
