Below, you are provided a notional setting or scenario for your project. The setting or scenario should assist the group in framing your perspective and shaping your finished product. Your group goal is a recommendation to the local government director of homeland security that addresses the risk analysis and resource allocation of your Individual Project element from Phase 4 into a cohesive risk analysis and resource allocation information and decision support paper combining all team member input. The desired end state is to prioritize Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) by risk and accordingly allocate available resources (federal or state) to implement protection-related activities. Your role within the group is to provide input and recommendations on those specific sectors that you addressed within your Phase 4 Individual Project deliverable, to coordinate with the members of your group to develop the concepts and written elements of the paper, and cooperatively develop the common paragraphs of the paper.

Assignment Guidelines

Individual Portion

Revise and amend your Week 4 Key Assignment by adding what you learned in the Discussion Board assignments following the task, and take into consideration your instructor’s comments.

Please submit your assignment.

Group Portion

Complete the following for the group portion of your assignment:

• As a group, assign the duties and responsibilities within your group.
  • Review the Phase 4 Individual Project submissions of your small group.
• Discuss (in the small group area Discussion Board) the common areas of each team member’s paper. Arrive at a consensus of those elements that are common to the end project.
• Provide input to the group on behalf of the sectors that you have examined as part of your Phase 4 Individual Project deliverable.
• As a group, develop a single cohesive document that represents each of the sectors that you worked individually on in Phase 4. The group paper should include the following:
  • Include all sectors addressed within the Individual Projects.
  • Provide a risk matrix with detailed written explanations on the assignment of values for each of the 15 National Planning Scenarios.
  • What recommendations can you make to prioritize CIKR by risk for each sector? Explain in detail.
  • What is your group’s plan to effectively allocate available resources (federal or state) to implement protection-related activities for each sector? Explain in detail.
  • Prioritize resource allocations based upon the conducted risk analysis for each sector.

Your group recommendation should, as much as possible, consider and reflect all that you have learned thus far and posit the most realistic, risk-driven, and resource-constrained methodology. Should you require additional material to aid in your analysis, try the Internet; there is nothing in this assignment requiring access to classified information.

Settings Common to All Groups

The Group Project expands upon the concepts developed during Phase 4 and expands the scope of the Phase 4 Individual Project to include all of the CIKR sectors (16 total). This is a formal information and decision support paper that you are developing for the director of Homeland Security of your chosen municipal community. The director’s intent is to share this risk analysis and resource allocation paper with the major department heads of the city, the city manager or administrator, the mayor, and the city council. The director’s goal is to enhance awareness of CIKR protection and resiliency issues and to improve overall CIKR security, planning, mitigation, response, recovery, and resiliency. The director also plans to use this assessment as a means and justification for additional funding of CIKR projects.

Use the following sectors:

• Transportation Systems Sector
  • Rail and passenger
  • Ferry and other port transportation modes
  • Airports and airplanes
  • Bridges
  • Tunnels and vehicular (passenger)
• Government Facilities Sector
  • Federal government facilities
  • Commercial office buildings housing federal government offices
  • Educational institutions
• Commercial Facilities Sector
  • Shopping malls
  • Sports complexes and exhibition halls
  • Large, public gathering places
  • Jewish facilities (community centers, schools, synagogues, etc.)
• Energy Sector
  • Electrical power generation facilities
  • Petroleum production facilities
  • Natural gas production facilities
• Chemical Sector
  • Basic chemicals
  • Specialty chemicals (any of the 322 chemicals covered in the Chemical Facilities Antiterrorism Standards)
  • Agricultural chemicals
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Consumer products

The importance of conducting a complete risk analysis and including your combined matrices within this paper cannot be overstressed. You must provide a descriptive justification for why each element has been assigned a certain value within the context of your group paper.