National Security

All Hazards Analysis

A dynamic dependency analysis framework that enables critical infrastructure knowledge discovery and decision support.

A Deeper Approach To Infrastructure Threat Analysis

All Hazards Analysis (AHA) is a dynamic framework for dependency analysis, empowering the discovery of critical infrastructure insights and facilitating decision-making. Developed by Idaho National Laboratory, AHA identifies dependencies and associated risks, offering decision-makers and emergency managers a holistic perspective on interconnected infrastructure systems.

Employing an optimized framework, AHA efficiently collects, stores, analyzes and visualizes critical infrastructure data. Its function-based approach organizes information into nodes (representing infrastructure) and links (depicting dependency relationships). Continuously learning, AHA integrates general and facility dependency profiles with new data and evolving network structures, enabling more comprehensive sector analysis and consequence assessment compared to other infrastructure modeling systems.

National Response Framework

AHA finds application within the National Response Framework, encompassing prevention, protection, mitigation, response and recovery efforts. Its versatility spans from assessing potential consequences to ensuring the continuity of operations.

Applications and Users

Application uses include the National Response Framework (Prevention, Protection, Mitigation, Response and Recovery). AHA has a broad range of uses that extend from analyzing potential consequences to ensuring continuity of operations.

AHA users include:

State, local and federal government
National laboratories
Industry and private sector
Colleges and universities

Capabilties

AHA is a unique instrument, equipping users with a fundamental dataset gathered from both structured data and open-source unstructured data. The instrument is enhanced with spatial analysis techniques. Subsequently, users can import and oversee their data, tailored to their expertise and areas of interest. Access to the entered data is restricted to authorized users.

This tool offers both geospatial and graphical visualization features to navigate the complexities of the problem space. Data presentation is facilitated through an interconnected map view and dependency graphs. AHA possesses a user-friendly interface yet remains adaptable to cater to individual user requirements.

Function Failure Logic

The AHA simulator demonstrates the effects of disruptions to facilities. The simulator can be configured to run with function failure logic, using reachability, or time dependent function failure logic, using discrete events, calculating effects and determining network resolution.

Decomposition for Energy Assurance and Electrical Power Resilience (DEEPR) Process

DEEPR is a systems engineering process that helps organizations identify how energy, utility, and commodity disruptions could affect mission operations. By mapping dependencies and assessing impacts, it provides a clear understanding of critical vulnerabilities and resilience opportunities. The process supports mission and asset owners in developing effective strategies to reduce risk, improve continuity, and strengthen operational readiness.

Supply Chain Modeling

The AHA framework also allows users to simulate the overarching movement of goods within its supply chain model. In this model, data regarding transformation processes and global supply points can be integrated to pinpoint crucial disruption points in complex, multitiered supply chains. This overarching data can be matched with detailed asset-level information from AHA, confirming production capacities for vital commodities critical to the world’s infrastructure.