The Center for Infrastructure Defense (CID) focuses on the continued operation of critical military and civilian infrastructure in the presence of accident, failure, and attack.

Our team combines the expertise of senior scholars with a highly motivated student body consisting of military officers and government employees from the U.S. and its global partners.

We serve as trusted advisors to the military, government, and private sector. We stand ready to address both long-term and emergent issues related to national and international infrastructure systems.

The CID is part of the Operations Research (OR) Department in the Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences (GSOIS) at the Naval Postgraduate School.

“We must now focus on the resilience of the system as a whole – an approach that centers on investments that make the system better able to absorb the impact of an event without losing the capacity to function.”

—National Strategy for Homeland Security, 2007, p.28

Latest News

CID Website goes live

NPS Students Help Monterey Fight Fire with … Algorithms? An NPS news story. (available to NPS users only)

CDR Cory Dixon, USN, is recognized for his outstanding thesis titled "Assessing Vulnerabilities in Interdependent Infrastructures Using Attacker-Defender Models".

LT Tim Yuhas presents thesis research at Golden Guardian 2011 Final Planning Conference (learn more)