Anu Narayanan Bücher

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) increasingly relies on electric power to accomplish critical missions. This report explores two approaches for deterring attacks against the U.S. power grid in a world of increasing cyber aggression: deterrence by denial and deterrence by cost imposition. It is a first step in developing frameworks and context to support DoD decisionmaking in this area.

This report describes how the U.S. Air Force currently sets priorities among its investments in power resilience measures, and how it could improve on decisionmaking processes to ensure that available resources are efficiently and effectively used to increase mission resilience in the face of a wide range of power outage scenarios.