b'HOW INL HELPS SECURENATIONAL SUPPLY CHAINSTHE COVID-19 PANDEMICbrought the issue of supply and demand to the forefront for Identifying hiddenWeb app helps truck drivers New institute working to securemany people. When equipment manufacturers, product distributors and service providers impacts of disasters move critical supplies U.S. manufacturing facilitiescouldnt meet the demands of consumers, the ripple effects were palpable. Issues ranging In the weeks after Hurricane Maria hit PuertoAt the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, aand combines the information seamlessly intoU.S. manufacturers face a barrage of threats from extended wait times for a new car or laptop, to medication delays, empty supermarket Rico in 2017, the world heard volumes aboutpatchwork of well-intentioned, state-levelone application. It allows truck drivers andimpacting the production of energy technologies shelves, and shortages in sanitary supplies such as face masks, brought the notion of supply-chainthe storms impact in terms of lives lost, homesrestrictions emerged across the country. Fromemergency managers to plan travel routes andsuch as electric vehicles, solar panels and wind security to prominence in 2020.demolished and infrastructure destroyed. Butstay-at-home orders and curfews to travelsee highway and interstate travel restrictionsturbines. Manufacturing infrastructures are The complex network of facilities, services and personnel involved in everything from productMaria had one lesser-known consequence thatrestrictions and quarantines, these mandatesin real time. It can also help drivers navigatevulnerable to cyberattacks and are among the distribution to electricity delivery has challenged the ability of elected officials, emergency proved just as critical. may have temporarily slowed the spread ofclosures that may delay the delivery of criticaltop targets for cybercriminals and nation-state managers and everyday citizens to understand and plan for a disruption. coronavirus, but they had the unintentionalsupplies to hospitals, supermarkets or schools.adversaries.The storm damaged the manufacturing plants of aconsequence of disrupting the movement of Mindful of these challenges, INL researchers have built tools to help communities better prepare formajor IV bag maker, creating a supply shortage forimportant supplies. For the trucking industry,Hundreds of state agencyTo address this challenge, DOE established a disasters. This work began long before the current pandemic but has ramped up in the last year.U.S. hospitals six months after the hurricane hit. which moves 71% of the nations freight every$111 million public-private partnership aimed year, state-level travel restrictions became atransportation coordinators, riskat securing U.S. manufacturing facilities from major hurdle to stabilizing the nations management officials and truckingcyberthreats. The Cybersecurity Manufacturing The situation revealed how naturalsupply chain.Innovation Institute (CyManII, pronounced sy-and man-made disasters can havetrade groups have used the appMAN-ee) launched in November 2020 and is led At the request of the U.S. Department ofsince its launch. As the COVID-19by the University of Texas San Antonio.unanticipated consequences thatHomeland Security, researchers at INL were called in to find a fix. Their task was to develop apandemic continues to evolve,The institute focuses on understanding are every bit as serious as thehow evolving cybersecurity threats impact visualization tool to help truck drivers navigatenew features are added.manufacturers. CyManII members will then damage from the event itself.the ever-changing list of state-level restrictions. design and implement a secure manufacturing Within days, INL researchers had designed,architecture.Thats why researchers at INL developed the Alldeveloped and tested the Commercial Routing Hazards Analysis (AHA) software, which mapsAssistance application. This web-based toolThe free tool is available atINL leads the institutes work to improve the relationships among vital assets. Understandingpulls data from national and state databaseshttps://cra.inl.gov/. cybersecurity of industrial control systems. INL these relationships allows first responders toalso works closely with private industry to secure anticipate the effects of dependencies andtheir digital automation systems. For more respond quickly after a disaster.information, visit www.cymanii.org.For instance, AHA may spotlight a critical electricTHE INSTITUTE IS COMPOSED OF:substation providing power to a nearby water treatment plant, which in turn provides clean3 NATIONAL water to a hospital or emergency storm shelter.LABORATORIESResponders may then decide to prioritize assets so they can protect or repair that substation in the event of a hurricane, wildfire or cyberattack.4 MANUFACTURING AHA uses processes enabled by machine learningINNOVATIONINSTITUTESto gather public information about essential The All Hazards Analysis tool helps emergency planners visualize the ripple effect of disasters on infrastructures in a particular town, county or certain critical infrastructures.region. Once the tool compiles this information,24 UNIVERSITIESit builds a computer model that maps the correlations between infrastructures.The software tool has been used by the U.S.18 INDUSTRY LEADERSDepartment of Homeland Security and the military in response to natural disasters. It also has been licensed to the Idaho and Utah offices of Emergency Management. For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3nBjo5x. 10 NONPROFITSThe Commercial Routing Assistance application provides truck drivers with information aboutstate-level restrictions ranging from curfews to quarantines. 14|Idaho National Laboratory|your.inl.gov your.inl.gov|Idaho National Laboratory|15'