Power Companies May Be Missing Info from DHS to Protect Assets from Storms

submitted by Luis Kun

hstoday.us - Mickey McCarter - July 6th, 2012

While more than a million people struggled through a loss of power in the Washington, DC, region in the past week because of a devastating derecho, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also has been struggling to share data that could potentially prevent such damaging widespread power outages.

Under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), DHS asks companies that own or operate critical infrastructure to participate in voluntary surveys to determine where weaknesses may exist within those systems, which range from power plants to water facilities to transportation centers and more.

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