Given the diverse roles and responsibilities across the infrastructure community, a proactive, collaborative and inclusive partnership among all levels of government and the private and non-profit sector is required to ensure optimal use of existing capabilities and to develop new ones. Additionally, infrastructure critical to the United States transcends national boundaries, requiring cross-border collaboration, mutual assistance and other cooperation.

The National Plan establishes seven Core Tenets, representing the values and assumptions the critical infrastructure community should consider when conducting security and resilience planning.

Select each core tenet to expand its NIPP 2013 description