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Community and Infrastructure Resilience

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Community and Infrastructure Resilience

The Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Community and Infrastructure Resilience Program conducts research in new and emerging technologies for streamlining and optimizing disaster resilience investments in insurance, mitigation, and recovery operations and assistance programs. It also supports the development of standards and best practices and enables improved information-sharing capabilities.

The Community and Infrastructure Resilience Program aims to provide solutions addressing the complex problems related to natural disasters and manmade events and an approach to technology deployments that takes into account all hazards.

Advancing Resilience

Through the development of technologies, research in critical topic areas, and the deployment of best practices across federal, state, local, and private organizations, the Community and Infrastructure Resilience Program is empowering all levels of government to collect and monitor key threats and improve abilities to share this information across their communities.

The program accomplishes its goals through six distinct project areas: 

Last Updated: 02/21/2025
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