Welcome to the Middle Tennessee Chapter
Upcoming Event:
Our next chapter meeting is right around the corner. We will be honored with the presence of Michael Either, Special Agent in Charge of the 902nd Military Intelligence Group at Fort Campbell as our guest speaker. Special thanks to IG member Mark Brown of Pinnacle Financial Partners for providing us with an incredible meeting facility for this meeting.
Details of the May 10th meeting are as follows:
When: Thursday, May 10th 2012
Where: Pinnacle Financial Partners Training Room (Brentwood - Maryland Farms)
128 Franklin Road
Brentwood, TN 37027
(615) 744-5100 http://maps.google.com/?q=128+Franklin+Road+Brentwood,+TN+37027&hnear=128+Fr
anklin+Rd,+Brentwood,+Williamson,+Tennessee+37027&t=m&z=16
Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm
Cost: $20.00 for lunch (cash or check only please)
RSVP: Seating will be limited at this location so please RSVP to casper.cromwell@infragard.org today
Please feel free to join us as a guest on May 11th for a morning with SAC Ford. If interested, please register by clicking the banner below in SAC Ford's announcement. There will be several hundred people in attendance so be sure to leave yourself plenty of time for registration. There is NO cost to you for attending this event as my guest. I hope to see many of you on May 11th!
The new hours are 7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. The Expo will begin at 7:30 a.m. with a complimentary continental breakfast from 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.. Our Guest Speaker will begin at 8:30 a.m. with the event concluding at 9:30 a.m.
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From drinking water supplies to communications systems, chemical production processes to agricultural resources, Americans depend on a select group of critical infrastructures to sustain our way of life. Any attempts to harm or destroy these resources would directly impact the security of the United States and its citizens.
Most of these systems and services are owned and operated by private industry. Therefore, the protection of our nation’s infrastructure cannot be accomplished by the federal government alone. It requires coordinated action from numerous stakeholders – including government, the private sector, law enforcement and concerned citizens.
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Collaboration and communication are the keys to protection. Providing timely and accurate information to those responsible for safeguarding our critical infrastructures, even at a local level, is paramount in the fight to protect the United States and its resources.
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An InfraGard member is a private-sector volunteer with an inherent concern for national security. Driven to protect their own industry and further motivated to share their professional and personal knowledge to safeguard the country, InfraGard members connect to a national network of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) communicate with federal law enforcement and government agencies through their local InfraGard chapters, and contribute to the security and protection of our national infrastructure from threats and attacks.
What does InfraGard protect?
Critical Infrastructures and Key Resources
Critical infrastructures are physical and cyber-based systems that are essential to the minimum operations of the economy and the government (as defined in Presidential Decision Directive/NSC 63, May 1998) Key resources are individual targets whose destruction would not endanger security on a national scales, but would create local disaster or profoundly damage national morale (as defined in Homeland Security Presidential Directive-7, December 2003) Together, critical infrastructures and key resources are so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense, economic security, public health or national confidence of the United States.
InfraGard has SMEs around the country in each of the following 17 categories of critical infrastructures and key resources, as recognized by the National Infrastructure Protection Plan:
Critical Infrastructures:
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- Emergency Services
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- National Monuments and Icons
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Key Resources:
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- Commercial Nuclear Reactors, Materials and Waste
- Dams
- Government Facilities
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