Dams Sector-Specific Plan

The Dams Sector-Specific Plan is a national sectoral plan of the United States of America. Its main objectives are to develop and implement multi-faceted, multi-level, and flexible security programs and resilience-enhancing strategies that accommodate the diversity of the sector to effectively protect its assets from physical and cyber threats and enhance its capability to respond to and recover from attacks, natural disasters, or other emergencies.
More specifically, the Plan aims to strengthen dams sector public-private partnerships to maintain and improve coordination and information sharing; identify and assess sector-specific threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences to support risk-informed decisions; develop and incorporate sustainable approaches to effectively reduce and manage physical and cyber risk to critical assets and develop response and recovery plans; enhance dams sector security and resilience by advancing research and development solutions that support advance planning and adaptation; and promote continuous learning and adaptation through community-level, cross-sector collaboration to enhance regional resilience.