Critical Infrastructure / Key Resources
Measuring Program Effectiveness
Decision-makers confront difficult risk management choices. Because resources are limited, they must often demonstrate the actual or expected effectiveness of actions designed to manage risk to infrastructure assets and systems to receive funding.
SRA helps stakeholders quantify the benefits of risk management program expenditures. We understand the importance of measuring activities that will impact future resource allocation. Working within regulatory and voluntary confines from the national to local level, our experts help clients, identify common challenges and implement risk mitigation best practices.
We build a comprehensive solution that begins with understanding goals and objectives and ends with data analysis that informs priorities and decisions.
Experience and Results
SRA continues to be an integral part of federal efforts to build and maintain a framework for measuring the effectiveness of critical infrastructure protection and resilience.
Our experienced project managers, analysts, and statisticians provide clients with a stronger understanding of the impact and effectiveness of protection, resilience and risk management decisions and actions. Examples include:
- Assisting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the development and implementation of national-level measurement and reporting programs to demonstrate the benefits of protection and resilience activities across 18 critical infrastructure sectors
- Reviewing broad organizational missions and goals, and developing programmatic objectives and outcome statements to better measure risk management efforts
- Assisting numerous critical infrastructure sectors with the development of descriptive, output and outcome metrics
- Helping DHS and sectors to develop data collection plans and tools for gathering the information necessary for performance measurement
- Identifying gaps in existing critical infrastructure programs and providing recommendations to close the gaps
- Translating complex organizational challenges and raw data into a clearly articulated view of the protection, resilience and risk landscape