The U.S. Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security) has issued new Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce.
The memorandum is advisory, not presecriptive. DHS is only one of several agencies assigned some National Essential Functions so it is not exhaustive list. It looks like someone found the three-ring emergency plan binders. Sad its needed, but appreciative of the experts which helped write those planning documents over the years.
https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure
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The attached list identifies workers who conduct a range of operations and services that are essential to continued critical infrastructure viability, including staffing operations centers, maintaining and repairing critical infrastructure, operating call centers, working construction, and performing management functions, among others. The industries they support represent, but are not necessarily limited to, medical and healthcare, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement, and public works.
We recognize that State, local, tribal, and territorial governments are ultimately in charge of implementing and executing response activities in communities under their jurisdiction, while the Federal Government is in a supporting role. As State and local communities consider
COVID-19-related restrictions, CISA is offering this list to assist prioritizing activities related to continuity of operations and incident response, including the appropriate movement of critical infrastructure workers within and between jurisdictions.
Accordingly, this list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered to be, a federal directive or standard in and of itself.
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