Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center

Homeland Infrastructure Threat
and Risk Analysis Center
(HITRAC) est
Overview and Vision
The Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center (HITRAC )
leads the Nation’s premier analytical teams in the conduct of critical
infrastructure related modeling, simulation, and analysis in close
collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its
security partners. HITRAC aims to be a nationally recognized provider of
current, accurate, and comprehensive critical infrastructure risk
information, modeling, and analysis that informs the prioritization of
risk and supports risk management strategies, thus enhancing the
resilience of the Nation. HITRAC will move toward this vision by
building a robust and comprehensive suite of infrastructure analysis
programs that will produce rapid, precise studies in support of a wide
range of government and private sector programs and decisionmakers.
Source: DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection
Mission Statement
HITRAC’s mission is to provide strategic, operational, and tactical products and services to DHS and its partners
through an analytic framework that integrates critical infrastructure and risk analysis; strategic risk analysis; risk
methodology development and modeling; and intelligence analysis and operational activities.
HITRAC Analysis and Products
HITRAC provides decision support analysis to stakeholders and partners through strategic risk analysis, prioritization
efforts, methodology development, modeling and simulation, intelligence analysis, incident planning, and response
activities during both steady state and in response to crises. HITRAC also serves as the program management office
for the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISAC), which provides modeling, simulation, and
analysis of critical infrastructure, including their interdependencies, consequence of loss, and other complexities.
HITRAC products inform Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, and international partners’ decisionmaking processes.
All products are designed to assist policy, budgetary, stakeholder, and partner understanding of risks to critical
infrastructure and that best inform risk management decisions.
Contact Information
For more information, please contact HITRAC at RISK@hq.dhs.gov.