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Critical Infrastructure News

This page includes news feeds about critical infrastructure to help ground resilience theory and concepts in real-world applications and current events. Excerpts from the RSS news feeds are updated every two hours as new articles are published. In addition to ‘Headlines’ featuring related current events, the following critical infrastructure sectors are represented:

  • Air Quality: Environmental Protection Agency
  • Communications: National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Cyber-Security: U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team and ThreatPost
  • Energy: U.S. Energy Information Administration
  • Transportation: National Institute of Standards and Technology

Click the tabs and pages to review the excerpts. Click on the ‘Read More’ link for more detailed information and to access a link to the source website. Please contact us to recommend news feeds for other critical infrastructure sectors.

Air Quality

EPA–Air Quality

Environmental Protection Agency

Governo Biden-Harris anuncia US$ 3 bilhões para substituição de tubos de chumbo para promover água potável segura como parte da agenda de investimento nos Estados Unidos

Governo Biden-Harris anuncia US$ 3 bilhões para substituição de tubos de chumbo para promover água potável segura como parte da agenda de ...
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/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Announces $124M to Deliver Residential Solar, Lowering Energy Costs and Advancing Environmental Justice Across Alaska

SEATTLE (April 23, 2024) - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Alaska Energy Authority and the Tanana Chiefs Conference have each ...
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/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Region 4 Marks Earth Day at the Historic Westside Gardens in Atlanta

ATLANTA (April 22, 2024) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 marked Earth Day at the Historic Westside Gardens ...
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/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

Biden-Harris Administration announces Bonneville Environmental Foundation to receive $30.2 million to deliver residential solar in Wyoming, lowering energy costs and advancing Environmental Justice

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Bonneville Environmental Foundation has ...
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/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

Biden-Harris Administration announces $198 million to deliver residential solar in North Dakota, lowering energy costs and advancing Environmental Justice   

BISMARCK, N.D. - Today, as the Biden-Harris Administration celebrates Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced The Coalition for Green ...
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/ EPA Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency

Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Critical Rule to Clean up PFAS Contamination to Protect Public Health

WASHINGTON – Today, April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking another step in its efforts to protect people ...
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/ EPA Air Quality

Communications

NIST–Advanced Communications

National Institute of Standards and Technology News

Tiny New Lasers Fill a Long-Standing Gap in the Rainbow of Visible-Light Colors, Opening New Applications

Researchers have created orange, yellow and green lasers tiny enough to fit on a chip ...
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/ NIST Advanced Communications
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

2025 MBE & QIF Summit Call for Presentations Open

Planning for the 2025 MBE & QIF Summit at MxD in Chicago on April 15-17, 2025, is underway. NIST and the Digital ...
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/ NIST Advanced Communications
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

NIST and University Researchers Develop Software to Improve Co-Simulation Performance

In collaboration with Vanderbilt University, NIST researchers have published a paper, “ Scalable HLA Co-Simulations of Connected and Automated Vehicles using Aggregation ...
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/ NIST Advanced Communications
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

NIST Reports that IEEE 802.11 OFDMA Frame Triggering Could Improve Latency for Time-critical Applications Using Wireless

Rick Candell of the NIST Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL) presented research findings at the International Conference on Advance Intelligent Mechatronics in Boston ...
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/ NIST Advanced Communications
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

NIST Team Presents its 5G Industrial Wireless Testbed and Research Direction at AIM Conference

NIST researcher Jing Geng of the Operational Technology (OT) Wireless Team, Smart Connected Systems Division, presented the paper, “An Industrial Private 5G ...
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/ NIST Advanced Communications
National Institute of Standards and Technology News

NIST Publishes Recommendations to Use Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) in Manufacturing Life Cycle Data

A recently released NIST Advanced Manufacturing Series publication AMS 300-12 “ Research Results and Recommendations for Universally Unique Identifiers in Product Data ...
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/ NIST Advanced Communications

Cyber-security

US Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Russian Military Cyber Actors Target US and Global Critical Infrastructure

Russian Military Cyber Actors Target US and Global Critical Infrastructure

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and National Security Agency (NSA) assess that cyber actors ...
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/ US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team
#StopRansomware: RansomHub Ransomware

#StopRansomware: RansomHub Ransomware

Summary Note: This joint Cybersecurity Advisory is part of an ongoing #StopRansomware effort to publish advisories for network defenders that detail various ...
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/ US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations

Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations

Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) ...
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/ US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

Cyber-security: ThreatPost

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Energy

US Energy Information Administration

Energy Information Administration News

U.S. natural gas-fired electricity generation set new daily records in summer 2024

In-brief analysis October 8, 2024 U.S. natural gas-fired power plants generated more than 7 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity on August 2, ...
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/ US Energy Information Administration
Energy Information Administration News

EIA now publishes additional U.S. biofuel and distillate forecasts

In-brief analysis October 7, 2024 Biofuels are making up an increasing share of total distillate fuel oil consumed in the United States ...
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/ US Energy Information Administration
Energy Information Administration News

Distillate fuel oil demand will increase in the fall because of the agricultural harvest

In-depth analysis October 4, 2024 Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Short-Term Energy OutlookNote: Total distillate fuel oil includes petroleum-based distillate fuel ...
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/ US Energy Information Administration

EPA–Energy

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Transporation

NIST–Transporation

NIST Publishes Automated Vehicles Workshop Report

NIST held a virtual workshop in September 2023 on Standards and Performance Metrics for On-Road Automated Vehicles, attracting over 600 attendees from ...
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/ NIST Transportation

NIST Researcher Engages Automotive Stakeholders at SAE World Congress Experience (WCX) 2024

The SAE World Congress Experience (WCX) 2024 was held on April 16–18, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. The event attracts researchers, government officials, ...
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/ NIST Transportation

CHIPS R&D National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) Advanced Packaging Summit

The National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) and NASA Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley are co-hosting an Advanced Packaging Summit ...
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/ NIST Transportation